Red vs. Green Infrastructure

Not all infrastructure has been created equal. Some parts are yesterday, and should be relegated to the famous dust bins of history rather than cemented into our future. Their light is blinking red—stop investing in them, as much as is ... [Read more]

Tough Love: The Moral Choices in the Gaza War

One series of questions posed to Israeli soldiers in discussions of war ethics goes something like this: If you were ordered to blow up a house where a terrorist commander was hiding, and you had reason to believe that enemy civilians were in the ... [Read more]

Jewcy Zeitgeist: Roland Burris Turned Away From Senate, Toyota To Halt Production, Flaming Genitals Lead To Murder Charges

Here are today's top stories in no particular order: Blagojevich-appointed Senate seat successor Roland Burris was turned away from the Capitol when he came to claim his seat this morning. Burris, who was expecting to fill Barack Obama's ... [Read more]

Jordan and Jerusalem for Christmas

Last week there was this conference in Jerusalem that would allow me to scam the university for the cost of an airplane ticket (this was arranged just before the current crisis.)  I decided to make it interesting by including a visit to Jordan.  ... [Read more]

Dark Light and Rabbi Tropper Expand Haredi Invasion of College Campuses

In a move to expand right-wing ultra-Orthodox (haredi, specifically the B'nai Torah) outreach on college campuses, two fundamentalist institutions have joined forces to support Ohr Somayach's two-year program, Ohr Lagolah, accredited by the ... [Read more]

I'm Shomer Freakin' Negiah

Shomer Negiah is one of the most talked about topics amongst young orthodox Jews, maybe because it's the closest they can talk openly about sex in groups, or maybe because everyone has a secret. No one really keeps negiah, they all just talk ... [Read more]

Some Very Jewcy Hookups

If you put a bunch of Jews in a room with a bunch of free alcohol, what do you get? Drunk. Well, that, and some potential new pairings to start the year off right. Considering my second career as a shadchan, I'm happy to report a couple of ... [Read more]

Hamas Is Not Just a Threat to Jews

I have already tried to show how Hamas has failed the people of Palestine politically, and how even the most optimistic appraisal of the organization's supposed "pragmatism" has failed to pan out, even under exigent circumstances in ... [Read more]

How I Went From an NYU Law Student to a Smut Writer

Rachel Kramer Bussel, author of Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, is guest blogging this week as one of Jewcy's Lit Klatsch bloggers. Her book is a collection of stories about spanking and its sexual appeal.  Before I officially start, a word ... [Read more]

‘Israel is an Impossibility. It is an Offense Against God.’

In a blog post at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg recalls a meeting he had with Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas leader recently killed during Operation Cast Lead. I saw him last in Gaza two years ago, at a mosque in the Jabalya Refugee Camp … ... [Read more]

Hamas and Israel: Two to Tango

The first thing to understand about what is going on in Gaza is that it is not the result of a sudden decision or an immediate provocation by one side or the other; this thing has been in the planning by both sides for months. It was only a ... [Read more]

Life in the Tel Aviv Bubble

During wartime, the cognitive dissonance in Israel is overwhelming. I'm typing this piece from the safety and comfort of Tel Aviv, where I went after my neighborhood was struck by rockets. There's a bloody and terrible war happening an hour's ... [Read more]

New Year – New Relationship Status

Writing for Jewcy has really spiced up my dating life. A few weeks ago some guy asked me out after I contemplated Jewish dating and I blogged the date.  But things never went any further and in fact I met someone new at the Jewcy Holiday Party. ... [Read more]

John Travolta and Kelly Preston's Teen Son Dies

My heart goes out today to actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, whose 16-year-old son Jett died yesterday while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas. The teenager apparently had a seizure while in the shower or bath at their hotel and hit ... [Read more]

Nothing Says Lovin'...

Around the world, angry responses to Israel's Operation Cast Lead have, predictably enough, flooded the streets. In Jakarta, protesters carried  mock missiles with the quaint message of "Target: Tel Aviv, Israel," while in the ... [Read more]

Another Holocaust "Memoir" Bites the Dust

As I'm never one for Hollywood happy endings, or Lifetime melodramas, it takes a lot to tug at my jaundiced heartstrings. But just over ten years ago when I first heard about the sensationalized Holocaust-aided love story of Herman and Roma ... [Read more]

The Coming Canadian World Domination

As we all know, the Global Jewish plutocracy, having made "the wealth of the century at the expense of the economies of the world," is preparing to put in motion 'war machines' in various hot spots around the globe "in order to ... [Read more]

Confronting Hamas' Genocidal Jew-Hatred

As my colleague Robert Spencer observed, Israeli President Shimon Peres appeared flummoxed by Hamas' intransigence in comments made to Haaretz, reported December 30, 2008. "This shooting has no point, no logic, and no chance," Peres told ... [Read more]

Charedi "News" Source Covers Up Suicide Story

Yeshiva World News is one of the main places where the right-wing Orthodox community gets their news. It's an unfortunate site replete with hateful comments and downright racist remarks, especially when anything related to Barack Obama is ... [Read more]

Missives from Gaza

How does it feel to be living in Gaza or have family and friends in Gaza right now? Not many people are blogging from Gaza today because of the lack of electricity. But a little research yielded a few bloggers out there either with personal ... [Read more]