Hey guys,
Just wanted to let you know that I most likely won’t be posting for the next few days as it’s Passover and I’m going to spend it with my sister and other family in Toronto. I get back Thursday and will bombard you with blog posts then! To all of my Jewish readers, hope you have great Seders, and to everyone else have a great week!
-Leora
Tags: seder, passover, toronto, vacation
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That’s too bad! Any way to make Matzah fun is pretty spectacular. Such a shame:
A rabbi’s school bus retrofitted into an oven to bake matzos for Passover may be out of business.
Deputy building inspector Manny Carmona sent a letter Friday forbidding Rabbi Aaron Winternitz from using his contraption, which is located behind his house.
"My department is not satisfied this oven is safe to use," he said.
The old, red and white bus had been converted into a supersized oven for Passover matzos — complete with a smokestack, exhaust fans and working fire.
Carmona ordered the rabbi earlier this week to move the …read more
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I would have never guessed women’s volleyball to be a violent sport of the spectators. What ever happened to crazy football and hockey fans?
Greek authorities have cancelled all team sports matches for two weeks after a mass brawl between rival women’s volleyball fans left one man dead.
"All team sports will be suspended… until 13 April," a government spokesman said after a cabinet meeting called to discuss the violence.
The pitched battle took place between fans of Olympiakos Piraeus and Panathinaikos near Athens.
Witnesses say about 300 fans fought using clubs, knives and stones.
Police detained 18 people during the violence, which …read more
MMM, Chocolate Jesus! The last time I saw chocolate genitalia was at the Vancouver Pride Parade…I wonder why people got upset? Hehe…
A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday amid complaints from Catholics, including Cardinal Edward Egan.
The "My Sweet Lord" display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in Manhattan, said Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director. Semler said he resigned after officials at the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show.
The artwork was created from more than 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) of milk chocolate and …read more
I can’t imagine my grandmother picking up the Wiimote anytime soon…but maybe she should?
"I’m 82 years old, so I missed that part of our culture. Soap operas, yes. Video games, no," chirped Ebert, who recently started playing a tennis game on Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s new Wii video game console at the Virginia retirement community she calls home.
"It was funny, because normally I would not be someone who would do that," said Ebert, who picked up the console’s motion-sensing Wiimote and challenged the machine to a match.
"I played tennis, if you can call it that, as a high school student. I …read more
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I’ve always thought Donald Trump was a chump. I admit it, I love Rosie! Anyway, this story is pretty funny. Can you imagine Donald Trump without his dumb hair?
Imagine The Donald — without the hair.
It could become reality, thanks to World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon.
On April 1, he and Donald Trump will have a wrestler compete on each’s behalf in the "Battle of the Billionaires" at WrestleMania 23 in Detroit — the WWE’s biggest annual pay-per-view event.
If Umaga beats Bobby Lashley, McMahon will give Trump what some might call a long-overdue buzz. If Lashley, Trump’s rep, wins, McMahon will …read more
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First they take bread away from us and now pot! Heheh
Marijuana is not kosher for Passover, a pro-cannabis advocacy group says, advising Jews who observe the week-long holiday’s special dietary laws to take a break from smoking the weed.
The Green Leaf Party announced Wednesday that products of the cannabis plant have been grouped by rabbis within a family of foods such as peas, beans and lentils that is off-limits to Jews of European descent during Passover.
The Green Leaf Party, which has made several unsuccessful attempts to win election to parliament on a platform urging marijuana’s legalisation, said it was issuing …read more
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This is just too funny. Do you think my bunny would like to watch some hot rabbit action?
After Thailand’s most popular animal couple failed to mate, zoo officials are gearing up for plan B — a DVD they hope will get Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui in the mood for love.
The pandas’ first mating season — a three-day window — came last week. Despite a widely-publicized encounter between Chuang Chuang, a 6-year-old male, and 5-year-old Lin Hui, the mating apparently was unsuccessful.
Zoo administrator Prasertsak Puttrakul, who leads a team taking care of the pandas, noted they tend to live in …read more
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At least it wasn’t a bomb!
A Palestinian woman wearing a strangely bulging robe was caught at the Gaza-Egypt border trying to smuggle three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist, an official said Monday.
The reptiles, their jaws tied shut, were apparently bound for a Gaza zoo, said Maria Telleria, a spokeswoman for European observers who run the Rafah crossing.
"She looked strangely fat," Telleria said, explaining why the woman was ordered by a policewoman to submit to a search as she tried to enter Gaza from Egypt Thursday.
Surprised by the three crocodiles, the policewoman screamed, other guards raced to the scene and …read more
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Can you live this monster kills small crocodiles? Well, to be fair they die when they eat them because they’re poisonous, but still…I still don’t get why groups that call themselves environmentalists go around killing poor fat toads. He’s so cute!
An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.
"It’s huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females …read more
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