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VIDEO: Pro-Israel demonstrators at Federal Building on Sunday

Published on January 12, 2009

Thousands of pro-Israel demonstrators crowded the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave. in Westwood.

Jeffrey Katzenberg: Madoff did ‘extraordinary damage’

Published on January 8, 2009

VIDEO: Youth rally supports Israel at Federal Building in Westwood

Published on January 8, 2009

Brad A. Greenberg reports from today's pro-Israel rally outside the Federal Building in Westwood.

Feds want bail revoked as Madoff mails $1 million in bling out of town

Published on January 5, 2009

Madoff memorabilia up for grabs on eBay.com

Published on January 4, 2009

Dangerous memes: When ideas can kill [VIDEO]

Published on January 4, 2009

Ex-office manager: Madoff most ‘anally retentive’ person

Published on January 3, 2009

Roseanne is not funny but she *is* an ignorant fool

Published on January 2, 2009

Madoff stolen sculpture back with a note to ‘swindler’ re film?

Published on January 2, 2009

Top five news stories for 2008 on JewishJournal.com

Published on December 31, 2008

Madoff is evil and corrupt but not as evil and corrupt as Dick Cheney

Published on December 31, 2008

Greeks to us: Obama will end Hebrew theft of world’s wealth

Published on December 30, 2008

Ponzi victim Lord Jacobs of Belgravia: Madoff was ‘such a charming guy’

Published on December 29, 2008

Mergers and consolidations for congregations—it’s the economy, stupid [VIDEO]

Published on December 28, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Dem Phones Dem Phones Dem iPhones—Hear the Word of the Lord’

Published on December 28, 2008

A recreation? A mashup of old video and new audio? Whatever, it's great!

‘She’s acting like a Jew!’ Ho ho ho Chanukah! [VIDEO]

Published on December 26, 2008

Bernie Madoff: Bad for the Jews, good for JewishJournal.com

Published on December 25, 2008

VIDEO: Christian Arabs celebrate Christmas in Nazareth, Israel

Published on December 23, 2008

No place for hate on JewishJournal.com

Published on December 21, 2008

We’ll survive, says Hadassah, despite the putz that stole Chanukah [VIDEO]

Published on December 19, 2008

Nine West Shoes’ Jerome Fisher—Israel Museum mega-donor—out $150 million

Published on December 19, 2008

Letter from Pasadena: I’m in the oud for love [MUSIC VIDEO]

Published on December 17, 2008

Cafe Eilat burns down temporarily [VIDEO]

Published on December 10, 2008

OMG! Cooties! I’m gonna wash that Jew right off of my hands [VIDEO]

Published on December 7, 2008

If your kids know Britney’s lyrics, blame the Jews!

Published on November 25, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Margot Leverett and Klezmer Mountain Boys

Published on November 24, 2008

'2nd Ave. Breakdown' by Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

VIDEO: Jamie Sneider is a nice half-nekkid Jewish girl with a 32 D bra size—not to worry

Published on November 19, 2008

Irv Brecher, Oscar winner,  Marx Brothers writer, dead at 94

Published on November 19, 2008

¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano gets it right—Aztlan != Israel

Published on November 13, 2008

Vampire killing kit gets $14K+ in auction—too late to use on RJC

Published on November 13, 2008

Veterans Day and the true horror of ‘weapons of mass destruction’

Published on November 11, 2008

VIDEO:  Obama roasts Emanuel, says he’s the ‘Angel of Death’ for GOP

Published on November 10, 2008

The entire election in one very tall image

Published on November 3, 2008

Rush Limbaugh tells the caller from Michigan why Jews back Obama*

Published on October 28, 2008

VIDEOS: Wassup 2008 meets Jewish Wassup

Published on October 27, 2008

Katie Couric at Friars Roast: ‘Palin’s wardrobe is worth three hookers and a pony’

Published on October 27, 2008

VIDEO: Wassup 2008

Published on October 26, 2008

Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.

VIDEO: Islam TV—‘Faith Off’ for laughs

Published on October 26, 2008

Hollywood comedy stars release four pro-Obama videos*

Published on October 22, 2008

Mr. Blackwell—born Richard Selzer —dies at 86

Published on October 21, 2008

Jewgrass star Mare Winningham had ‘amazing’ Yom Kippur

Published on October 17, 2008

CBS News is clueless about ‘The Great Schlep’ [VIDEO]

Published on October 14, 2008

Hollywood’s top 12 Jewish hotties?

Published on October 12, 2008

Was Roman Polanski treated unfairly?  BBC documentary says yes

Published on October 10, 2008

Are these the top Jewish athletes of all time?

Published on October 10, 2008

VIDEOS: Jackie Mason vs.  Sarah Silverman—Battle YouTube

Published on October 4, 2008

She says Obama, he calls her a 'yenta.' It's an 'only in America' battle of the YouTube videos

Republican David Zucker makes stand with ‘American Carol’

Published on October 3, 2008

Orit: I went to Macao and it’s not Las Vegas!

Published on October 3, 2008

VIDEO: South African woman reports warm flashes and sees vision in McCain spud product

Published on October 3, 2008

Methodist learns it’s 5769, says it’s awesome Jews live in the future

Published on October 1, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Ori Murray—‘Rosh Hashanah Rap’

Published on September 30, 2008

The Matrix, the Kotel, the Days of Awe are all linked in this music video from Ori Murray shot in Jerusalem.

MUSIC VIDEO: Rabbi Mark Bloom— ‘Rosh Hashanah Macarena’

Published on September 30, 2008

Rabbi Mark Bloom of Oakland's Temple Beth Abraham rocks out to the Rosh Hashanah Macarena

VIDEO: Who shall live . . .

Published on September 29, 2008

A montage of news photos from 5768 plus cantorial and modern music take this version of the 'Who shall live' prayer into YouTube land.

MUSIC VIDEO: Leonard Cohen—‘Who by fire?’

Published on September 28, 2008

Leonard Cohen in a live performance of his song 'Who by fire?' based on the High Holy Days U'Netaneh Tokef prayer

E-mail to the webmaster: The writings of all the preliterate scribes

Published on September 28, 2008

Dear Mr. Bloggish, send me some dough

Published on September 26, 2008

VIDEO: Sarah Silverman talks trash to back Barack

Published on September 25, 2008

Rosh Hashanah means frank talk with family, not just apples and honey

Published on September 24, 2008

VIDEO: Kids make shofars with Chabad in South Carolina

Published on September 23, 2008

65 Jewish children from Columbia, S.C. learn how to make a shofar with Rabbi Levi Marrus. The Gipsy Kings, we think, only sing in the video's soundtrack,

Bloggers expose neocon secret: Sarah Palin is a ‘Jewess’

Published on September 23, 2008

Sarah Palin kosher sausage?

Published on September 22, 2008

Mr. Warmth wins an Emmy—did a rabbi give him his start?

Published on September 22, 2008

VIDEO: Chazzan Chaim Adler—‘Kaddish’ @  Selichot services in Tel Aviv

Published on September 21, 2008

Chazzan Chiam Adler, Chief cantor at Tel-Aviv's Great Synagogue, sings the Kaddish. Recorded at first Selichot service. September 21 2008 midnight. Great chazzanut and wonderful singing by the congregation. Towards the end, you can hear a little Kol Isha. Is that our videographer, Y227, up in the womens' balcony?

VIDEO: Rosh Hashanah (funny) (political) e-card from Taglit-Birthright

Published on September 21, 2008

The candidates reach out and apologize in the Rosh Hashanah tradition, blow a shofar, interrupt, smile, joke and yell, just like your family!

Last Jews of Calcutta have one last guardian

Published on September 21, 2008

Talk like a pirate—talk like a Jew?

Published on September 18, 2008

Streisand opens Obama fundraiser with Talmud lesson

Published on September 17, 2008

Farmar shoots, rabbis dance, Chabad raises $8 million-plus [VIDEO]

Published on September 15, 2008

We remember 9/11

Published on September 11, 2008

Props to Tiffany Shlain, honorary Hollywood Jew (from San Francisco) for ‘The Tribe’ [VIDEO]

Published on September 8, 2008

Natalie Portman honored at Venice Film Festival for humanitarian work

Published on September 1, 2008

It was 45 years ago today

Published on August 28, 2008

Old Jewish joke, new language

Published on August 27, 2008

Volunteers needed to search Lake Piru for missing father

Published on August 26, 2008

VIDEO: Joe Biden (a self-declared Zionist) is good for the Jews

Published on August 23, 2008

Thirteen million Jews worldwide don’t sign ‘don’t bomb Iran’ petition

Published on August 22, 2008

I’m feeling lucky—Google searches gone bad

Published on August 21, 2008

Letters, we get letters . . ..

Published on August 21, 2008

Jew, not a Jew, again

Published on August 12, 2008

VIDEO: The Bris Saver

Published on August 11, 2008

It was an ordinary brit milah -- until the mohel passed out cold . . .

Michael Ross—who got Sammy Davis to kiss Archie Bunker—donates milions for Jewish studies

Published on July 15, 2008

Michael Ross, the former producer of and writer for iconic American sitcoms "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company," has given some $14 million to create Jewish studies programs at UCLA and City College of New York in recent months.

VIDEO: Ben Gurion proclaims the State of Israel and then says a ‘shechecheyanu’

Published on July 14, 2008

I have never seen this before. Sound footage of Ben Gurion proclaiming the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 -- and everyone says a "shecheyanu!"

AUDIO: Norman Corwin, Radio Zionist—‘Tel Aviv’ (1944)

Published on July 14, 2008

In 1944, CBS broadcasts a 30-minute program about Tel Aviv on 'Columbia Presents Corwin'. The program begins as a young editor Douglas Adams flies from Cairo to Tel Aviv, and we meet the lovely R.A.F. Leftenant Aviva Har-Zahav . . .

AUDIO: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, India, China and Iran

Published on July 12, 2008

Jewish communities that we don't hear very much about, in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, India, China, Iraq and Iran

VIDEO: toasteroven416’s JDate diary—Richard

Published on July 10, 2008

Her YouTube bio says she's 36 and lives in Canada, fellas. You too can be a diary entry!

AUDIO: Al Jolson stars as ‘The Jazz Singer’—Lux Radio Theatre 1947

Published on July 6, 2008

In this June 1947 production, Al Jolson reprises his most famous silver screen role as "The Jazz Singer."

‘The God Blog’ is the best blog, Los Angeles Press Club says

Published on June 22, 2008

Introducing God’s best tasting tomato

Published on June 17, 2008

Meet ‘The Goldbergs,’  black and white TV sitcom stars of the 1950s

Published on June 10, 2008

VIDEO: The Goldbergs (1955) starring Getrude Berg

Published on June 10, 2008

Episode of the Jewish-themed 1950s soap-opera/sitcom The Goldbergs, starring Gertrude Berg, taken from the final season

Breaking news: Giraffe milk is kosher, Israeli rabbis say

Published on June 6, 2008

Pakistan Daily: Osama is Jewish and Al-Qaeda is a Jewish front

Published on June 5, 2008

Just in time for Father’s Day—a nice Official Jewish Tartan kilt!

Published on June 2, 2008

VIDEO: Sid Caesar on the Chabad Telethon

Published on May 29, 2008

It's the fake dialect bit, and he invented it and no one has ever done it better

MUSIC VIDEO: The Boswell Sisters— ‘The Heebie jeebies’ (1932)

Published on May 25, 2008

Connie, Martha and Vet in a movie version (filmed for "The Big Broadcast") of one of their earliest commercial recordings

MUSIC VIDEO: Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys— ‘Yiddish Hula Boy’

Published on May 23, 2008

Hollywood ragtime sweetie Janet Klein sings a 1920s Tin Pan Alley tragedy -- tailor Izzy Cohen visits Honolulu, falls in love with the hula hotties, and writes wife Becky that he won't be back no more.

MUSIC VIDEO: Janet Klein—‘Cohen owes me 97 dollars’

Published on May 22, 2008

Hollywood ragtime sweetie Janet Klein sings Irving Berlin's "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars" at the Tin Pan Alley show during the Annual West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento last November (2007)

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Who’s Yehudi?’ 1943 ‘Soundie’

Published on May 22, 2008

Video jukebox clip from the 1940s has that shimmy and shake -- and a stereotyped 'yehudi'

Kol HaMispallel—All those who pray

Published on May 12, 2008

Video of Kol HaMispallel by the Yeshiva boys choir.

Very little about ‘Funny, you don’t look Bloggish!’

Published on April 22, 2008

Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism” on the “Social Web”

Published on March 18, 2008

Is that a dagger in your kaccha or are you here to see the Pope?

Published on March 6, 2008

Did Moshe Rabbenu meet YHWH at Sinai, or was he just tripping?

Published on March 3, 2008

Top stories for the 29 days of February, 2008

Published on March 1, 2008

If Web hits were votes, the election will be between Baruch Obama and Ron Paul

Published on January 31, 2008

A priest, a rabbi and a minister go on the Jay Leno show*

Published on January 24, 2008

Tom Cruise, Jewish supermensch?

Published on January 18, 2008

Jewish leaders defend Baruch Obama

Published on January 15, 2008

U CAN HAZ LAFFS

Published on January 13, 2008

Powerful Jewish women are verboten at Ms. Magazine

Published on January 11, 2008

¡Hasta la lingua! Goodbye, tongue! Hello, pastrami!

Published on November 15, 2007

[VIDEO] If Baruch Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins, what about us?

Published on October 23, 2007

Where is the Muslim Adam Sandler?

Published on October 10, 2007

Sandy Koufax kippah—sports memorabilia that won’t get you arrested *

Published on September 20, 2007

VIDEO: More on Jewish genetics—we are family!

Published on September 1, 2007

Are Jews smarter? And non-Jews—not so much?

Published on August 28, 2007

MUSIC VIDEO: Mickey Katz—‘The Ballad of Duvid Crockett’

Published on August 16, 2007

Everyone knows the legend of American pioneer 'Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.' Far fewer know the exploits of 'Duvid Crockett, King of Delancey Street.' You shouldn't worry, Duvid's life and times were immortalized in this Yinglish song by the great Mickey Katz.

VIDEO: The Bible Code: hoax or holiness?

Published on August 4, 2007

Vintage British sitcom sketch: The Two Ronnies ‘Jewish Insurance’

Published on July 13, 2007

Only a British sitcom could come up with a skit about someone wanting to purchase 'Turning Jewish' insurance. From 'The Two Ronnies' circa 1987.