At last week’s annual Hillel International staff conference, its president obliquely referenced Open Hillel. Speaking in Orlando at Hillel’s Global Assembly, Eric Fingerhut, having spoken about Hillel and Israel, also seemed to have referenced some challenges that Open Hillel, which recently...
Having written about the eight kosher restaurants that are open in Las Vegas, That list is now growing. Opening up in the next few days not far from Jerusalem Grill is Genesis Restaurant. Located at 4561 West Flamingo Road, Genesis...
Last week, at Hillel International’s new annual staff conference, Eric Fingerhut, president of Hillel International addressed the crowd concerning the challenges that Hillels, their staff members and their supporters face concerning divestment and other anti-Israel activities taking place on university...
Six months ago today, the Hershey’s Chocolate World store opened up at New York-New York Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Since then, the store has been serving up customers hundreds of chocolatey options. According to a press release,...
The Babylonian Talmud not infrequently records collections of statements from amora’im, starting off with one that connects with the immediately preceding discussion, but then continues on with other similar statements by that particular sage. One such semi-famous collections of statements...
Recently, I went to Rock Bottom in Long Beach, where I had a flight of their beers. The flight consisted of six beers: Kölsch, White Ale, Red Ale, Chunk of Pumpkin Ale, India Pale Ale, and Porter. I found the...
A few weeks ago, I got the Samsung Note 4 and have been greatly enjoying it. While I am still tinkering around and exploring it, I wanted to share five favorable features I have found with it so far: 1)...
Having had a few beers from Hangar 24, I had the opportunity earlier this month to visit the brewery and try some of their beers. They are located in Redlands, California in the Inland Empire, right across the street from...
Last week, I attended a very special beer event. Simply entitled “The Festival”, it took place over the course of November 8-9 at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles and was put on by The Shelton Brothers. I went...
Last night, I attended a kosher wine-tasting as part of a Long Beach Solomon Society event at The Wine Country. Since I’m not particularly familiar with wine, it was a bit of a learning experience for me. The wines were...
