Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Fun, fun, fun, Judaism is cool! What other religion tells you to get drunk, so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman (bad guy) and Mordechai (good guy)? In honor of Purim, Nancella, Scott, and I went to American Schmidol at the Bowery Ballroom. […]
Once a month a bunch of intellectual Jews gather in the Lower East Side. Surrounded by Soviet propaganda, the evening could have taken place 50 or 100 years ago, but this is New York City circa 2006. Novel Jews is a series of readings by […]
Yeah, it usually means Jewish American Princess, but that term didn’t define the three black clad women on a Makor panel about “Debunking the Myth of the JAP”. According to Rhonda Lieberman, Isabel Rose, and Alana Newhouse, a JAP is stereotypically spoiled, loves shopping, shallow, […]
Heeb and Storahtelling teamed up to throw a great Purim party at Club Rare in New York’s Meat Market. Several hundred Jews came to this masquerade party based on the Madonna theme of “Esther Don’t Preach”. Overall, I bet there were at least 20 people […]
If you’re culturally Jewish but not religious, then a Heeb party is for you. If you want to be in a packed basement with lots of horny Jewish girls, then a Heeb party is for you. And, if you want to listen to decent music […]
Is Judaism a culture or a religion? That was the question I wanted answered by journalist David Sarna, Amichai Lau-Lavi, Founder of Storahtelling, Ruth Calderon, Philosopher and Educator, and Dor Chadash’s David Borowich. Tonight they participated in a panel discussion about “The Role of Religion […]