Hebrew chant mixed with hip hop and folk rock — it's just not a musical combination one often finds, and seems particularly difficult to pull of. Brooklyn-based duo Darshan, however, live up to the musical challenge and will release their debut…
When I was a kid, it was an indisputable fact about my hometown of Washington, D.C., that the Gallery Place/Chinatown stop on the Metro was a place to switch between the Green, Yellow and Red Lines - not actually get off.
I had no idea Jews ever lived east of Siberia (okay, actually, I had no idea anyone lived east of Siberia given that the term has an end-of-the-earth-like connotation). I began reading about the history of this part of the world, known as the Jewish Autonomous Region, in a
I think it's about time to revisit our old friend Mark E. Deutsch. You may remember the musician/composer/Jewish song-leader from a blog entry earlier this year, or perhaps you've seen him plucking away in an Oakland cafe.
This weekend I strut my stuff on the catwalk. I've got to bask in the glow of such an endeavor -- considering I'm barely 5'2", it's unlikely that I'll be a runway model on a different occasion.
Manischewitz recently announced their fourth annual "Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off," and it's a doozy. Finalists get to go to New York and compete for a state-of-the-art GE stainless steel kitchen appliance set, and the contest is being judged by none other than Jacques Pepin.
Tommy (Harrison Ford): What do you call this part of the horse? Avram (Gene Wilder): The tuches! Tommy: Well, you just keep your eyes on this took-iss, and don't take them off 'till we get to San Francisco!
Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz seems to be everywhere right now. He's currently on tour with that wacky reggae singer Matisyahu, his solo album Beverly Dillz (Shemspeed) drops Nov.10, and he's recently taken on Portland indie rockers YACHT with an eight-song remix…