Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Jewish Men’s Clubs Boycott Scotch Whisky
You know things are serious when Kiddush clubs are willing to give up their scotch. The Federation of Amazing and Jewish Men’s Clubs, an affiliate of the Conservative movement, has called upon its North American members (250 clubs; 25,000 individual members) to boycott scotch whisky made in distilleries located in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland. Among…
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The Schmooze Using Videos, Jerusalem’s Arabs and Jews To Shoot the Inside Scoop
As intractable as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is in general, it is at its most contentious and high profile in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah, where small enclaves of diehard religious Jewish settlers live in overwhelmingly Palestinian neighborhoods. Last week, “60 Minutes” aired a report on the tensions between the developers of…
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The Schmooze 10,000 Yeshiva Students Allegedly Cheat Ministry of Education
10,000 Yeshiva students have been playing hooky and bilking Israel’s Ministry of Education of NIS 4.5 million, according to a recent audit. The Ministry of Education shared with the Israeli business publication Globes that these students, who have not actually been showing up to classes, were receiving NIS 450 each per month in stipends. The…
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The Schmooze Israelis Can’t Get Enough Facebook
We all know that Israelis spend more time than the rest of us on certain things, like defending their country, starting cool hi-tech start-ups, and eating really good hummus. What we might not have guessed is that they also spend more time on social networking websites than we do. According to a global survey conducted…
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Life On Shavuot, Women Asked To Walk a Longer Kotel Route
I am the first to admit that there are many people out there with greater and deeper Jewish knowledge than I. Nonetheless, one thing I am pretty sure of is that women and men stood together at Sinai, and that wives walked side-by-side with their husbands as they made pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot…
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Life If Ruth the Moabite Had Sought Israeli Citizenship
If the current Israeli government were in power back in biblical times, there is a good chance that there would actually be no State of Israel today in need of governing. This is the message of a simulated correspondence between the Israel Religious Action Center and Israel’s Ministry of Interior, written by Anat Hoffman, IRAC’s…
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The Schmooze On TV in ‘LaLa Land’: Israeli Singers Vie For Record Deal
“I’m travelling to L.A. with a dream in my suitcase and butterflies in my stomach. I’m looking for the end of a string to grab and create an opportunity to conquer the world,” sings Dudu Aharon in the first seconds of the opening sequence for “Chai b’LaLa Land” (“Living in LaLa Land”), a new Israeli…
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The Schmooze A New Breath of Yiddish Poetry
“I’m not going to be on Oprah,” said Zackary Sholem Berger matter-of-factly about his new book, “Zog khotsh l’havdil / Not in the Same Breath.” He’s realistic about his completely negligible chances, not because Oprah’s show and book club have just come to an end, but because he knows his work of original Yiddish poetry…
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