Tag: "Jewish"

Announcing “Ask Shuli”: for Jewish questions you can’t ask Bubbe

Announcing “Ask Shuli”: for Jewish questions you can’t ask Bubbe

“Ask Shuli” is TC Jewfolk’s yiddishe equivalent of Dear Abby or my personal favorite, Ask Amy, with a healthy dose of guilt sprinkled in. If you’ve ever wondered how the hell (sorry, momala) to explain Simchat Torah to your non-Jewish boss, ask Shuli. Or, is pre-marital sex good for the Jews? What’s keeping your pretty little keppe (head) up at night? What’s fueling your Happy Hour conversations? I’m here to answer your questions… And I’m just like you. Only cuter.

Sep 11, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
My Rosh Hashanah challenge: making the holiday personal

My Rosh Hashanah challenge: making the holiday personal

I am not going to use this space to lecture you on the things you must do this year on Rosh Hashanah – the commitments you must make to God, the prayers you must sing, the blessings you must recite. The traditions of this holiday are numerous, and for many of us, perhaps even a [...]

Sep 08, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post
Announcing Noshin’: for Jews who love to eat

Announcing Noshin’: for Jews who love to eat

I offer you Noshin’: TC Jewfolk’s kosher equivalent of Food Network. Each Thursday, I’ll share a recipe for Friday dinner, restaurant reviews and food finds, or other current foodie news, all with a Jewish spin.

Sep 02, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
TC Jewfolk kicks off High Holiday blog series

TC Jewfolk kicks off High Holiday blog series

The next two months are a whirlwind on the Jewish calendar. With the holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah rolling out one after another in September and October, it is enough to get your head in a twist and your tongue tied. Why are they called the High Holidays? [...]

Sep 02, 2009 | 4 comments | View Post

Jewish mother-in-law sues comedian after one too many jokes

Sunda Croonquist is half-black, half-Swedish, Roman Catholic by birth and a convert to Judaism. She is also a comedian who – until recently – joked about the craziness of her Jewish mother-in-law in night clubs around the country and on Comedy Central. But not anymore. Recently, Sunda’s mother-in-law decided that enough was enough. So she [...]

Aug 27, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
Jewish young leaders survey: responses needed on being a Mensch in our generation

Jewish young leaders survey: responses needed on being a Mensch in our generation

We are living in the age of social media, Britney Spears, and President Obama. We are defined by Iraq, 9-11, grass-roots organizing, global warming and culture wars. But is our generation a different type of Jew? A different breed of Jewish leader? How are our lives and values different from those of our Bubbe’s generation? [...]

Aug 26, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
New solutions for “chained” Orthodox women denied divorces under Jewish Law

New solutions for “chained” Orthodox women denied divorces under Jewish Law

Last week, an eight-year saga involving a sex-crazed and homeless Orthodox Jew in Israel who refused to divorce his wife and thus kept her “chained” to their marriage under Jewish law, finally came to an end. The Jerusalem Post reports that the man had been told eight years ago by a rabbinic court that he [...]

Aug 22, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Tweet your prayers with @TheKotel

Tweet your prayers with @TheKotel

Sometimes it is not enough to say a silent prayer at synagogue, or while you are biking around Lake Calhoun, or at home while saying Birkat Hamazon, the blessing over the meal (complete with the table bangings you remember from Jewish camp). Sometimes you need to communicate your prayer straight to God through the oldest [...]

Aug 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Changes on U.S. Army base after attack on Jewish soldier

Changes on U.S. Army base after attack on Jewish soldier

Last fall, a Jewish soldier named Michael Handman who was stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia was beaten severely by a fellow soldier and discriminated against in training by two drill sergeants, one of whom called him “Juden,” the German word for Jew, and the other who told the soldier to remove his Kippah when [...]

Aug 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
New book “Israel is Real” gets NY Times thumbs up

New book “Israel is Real” gets NY Times thumbs up

If you are looking for a “fresh,” “riveting” and “engaging” summer read about the history of the Jewish people and the state of Israel, pick up a copy of Rich Cohen’s Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History. The book just came out a few weeks ago, and [...]

Aug 18, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post
Homeless Holocaust survivor leaves Hebrew University $100,000

Homeless Holocaust survivor leaves Hebrew University $100,000

In a story of Tzedakah that makes you weep, AP reports that a Holocaust survivor who passed away this week in New York at the age of 92 bequeathed $100,000 to Hebrew University to fund medical research scholarships. But that’s not all – she was homeless. It seems that she saved every penny she owned [...]

Aug 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Rush Limbaugh compares Democrats to Nazis

Rush Limbaugh compares Democrats to Nazis

I’m not anywhere near what one would call a regular Rush Limbaugh listener, so I, probably like many of you, missed his program this week calling the Democratic leadership Nazis and comparing Obama’s health care policies and logo to Nazi policies and Nazi insignia.

Aug 08, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Happy Tu B’Av, the Jewish Love Day

Happy Tu B’Av, the Jewish Love Day

Last night was the start of the Jewish holiday Tu B’Av (bet you’ve never heard of that one). Unlike the holidays coming up in the next two months, which involve a lot of time in synagogue, or fasting, or sitting outside in the cold Minnesota October in straw huts, this one is all about summer lovin’.

Aug 05, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
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