About Monica Rozenfeld
Monica is a freelance writer with a super sexy blog called The Jew Spot. To learn more about her (me), go to www.SweetheartJournalist.com. Or write to findmyjewspot@gmail.com. Thx.Â
The Psychology of Compassion
How many people today google "genocide," "holocaust" or "rape camp"? With changing journalism comes a changing agenda. Yet New York Times Reporter Nicholas Kristof, single-handedly, is still pushing stories of genocide and women’s inequality to the front pages. When filmmaker … Read More
Niles Goldstein, Black Belts, and G-d
Niles Goldstein is famous for taking Judaism back to its roots: tradition, rebellion, mysticism and G-d. His last book Gonzo Judaism showed us the exciting, provocative and exhilarating parts of being Jewish and living Jewish lives. Now Niles get’s a … Read More
Unkosher Sex: Ultra-Religious Go Online in Search of Extramarital Affairs
What does it mean to religiously attend church, temple or synagogue, live in a community where G-d’s laws are first and foremost, and then deliberately go on the internet in order to break one of the most sacred of commandments: … Read More
Cheating is for Winners: Meet Shaindy.Com
When the Shaindy.com epidemic broke out, The Jew Spot had to get in on it. Lucky for us, founder of Shaindy not only gave us an interview, but VIP access. Little did we know we’d find ourselves in a website … Read More
Euro-Jew Trip at Miami Beach…
Yupp, it’s true. Absolut-Events is bringing its crazy Euro fun to the States, hoping us not-as-fun Americans will learn a thing or two from them. Interested in getting half-naked with French, Australian and Greek Jews?? Sign up at http://www.absolut-events.com/miami09/. The … Read More
Tattooed Jews
Evocative, disrespectful, proud, antithetic: these are just some of the words used to describe Jews with tattoos. Seth Alamar, who has 30-odd tattoos, calls most of his markings religious or “Jewish.” He has heard all the reasons why a Jew … Read More
Magen David: The New “It” Accessory
By Simona Kogan via TheJewSpot.org Stars of David and other Jewish symbols like the Hamsa (known as the protecting hand of G-d that wards off the evil eye) are no longer only strictly worn by the ultra-Orthodox. Now Jews … Read More
Interview: Alisa Katz, Associate Producer of ‘Defiance’
Daniel Craig fighting off Nazis in the middle of a forest might sound like some kind of fantasy (of my mother’s perhaps), but it’s real life depicted by the star alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell portraying the true story … Read More
Glamorous Tzedakess: Meet Chloé Jo
If anyone can save the world one animal, one human, one frizzy-haired girl at a time, all while looking entirely put together, it would be ChloĂ© Jo. Ditching her ankle-length skirts at Yeshiva the age of 15 for a NYC … Read More