Well, the Super Bowl has come and gone. It’s time for the take-away: The Broncos really need a hug. Bruno Mars was meh. This was possibly the most Jewish Super Bowl of all time. If the whole SodaStream/Scarlett Johansson debate, and the availability of a game-time knish (for a whopping $6, mind you) didn’t tip…
(JTA) — The rumored Seinfeld reunion finally happened! Teased in a spot during the Super Bowl, Jerry Seinfeld’s latest episode of his web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” featured Seinfeld and Jason Alexander reprising their roles from the hit show. A decade and a half later, George is still just as easy to dislike, especially…
Another strange Super Bowl start paid off again for a perennial Jewish sports bettor. Jona Rechnitz, a 31-year-old real estate owner in New York, made $15,000 for wagering that the Seattle Seahawks would score the first points of Super Bowl XLVIII on a safety. Rechnitz’s proposition bet paid out at 50 to 1 odds, thanks…
(JTA) — Rabbi Daniel Alter expects some added fervency during daily prayer services at the Denver Academy of Torah in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Alter, the academy’s head of school, recalls that when the Colorado Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox in the 2007 World Series, his students were more focused…
“I can bring a million people who want to work here,” boasted Ahmed Nasser, taking a break from his job as a SodaStream assembly line worker. Nasser spoke to the Forward from SodaStream’s main production plant, which is located in the Mishor Adumim industrial park within the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the occupied West…
If you have tickets for the Super Bowl at the MetLife Stadium this Sunday, and you’re planning to munch on some kosher snacks while watching the battle between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, you’d better bring some extra cash: This stuff’s not cheap. As the Forward reported, this year’s event is likely to…
Is it wrong for Scarlett Johansson to perform as the celebrity global ambassador for the Israeli company SodaStream? Is it wrong for the rest of us to drink the fizzy, made-at-home water in the environmentally-friendly reusable bottles that are manufactured in Palestinian land occupied by Israel since the 1967 war? Thanks to the high-wattage Super…
Move over ScarJo — the ‘Noah’ Super Bowl trailer has arrived. So, take a break from controversy, sit back, relax and enjoy. Because, let’s face it: the only thing that could make us look away from Scarlett Johansson’s SodaStream spot is Russell Crowe playing a biblical character in a Darren Aronofsky film.
אין זײַן ניט־פֿאַרעפֿנטלעכער לעצטער דראַמע „בן עמי“ האָט גאָלדפֿאַדן אױסגעלײגט אַ פּלאַן פֿאַר ייִדן צו פֿאַרנעמען ארץ־ישׂראל
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