By Debbie Schlussel

I didn’t post my reviews for last week’s new movies, last Friday, because my internet service went out just as I was about to post them and just before the Jewish Sabbath was going to start. But you didn’t miss much . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Ben Carson’s confirmation hearings for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development began this morning and are well under way. Sadly, nobody’s asking Dr. Carson about his very troubling ties to the Nation of Islam and whether he will bring his Farrakhan follower friends to HUD. It wouldn’t be the first time the Nation of Islam was involved in running America’s housing projects. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

If you follow me on Twitter, then you may have seen my live-tweeting of the Golden Globes Hollywood self-masturbation fest last night, including my response to Meryl Streep. But it wasn’t just the cranky actress who looks and acts all 85 of her 67 years. It was the movies to which they gave awards. Hollywood just can’t handle that they lost. That they don’t have the influence on America they once had. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You know things are getting really bad when a celebrity cooking contest show on a mainstream American TV network is turned into a fundraiser for HAMAS. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Most people are unaware that George Michael, who died recently, was Jewish and that he was pro-Palestinian. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As an American who loved Star Wars as a kid, it’s sad to see Carrie Fisher dead today at age 60. But her case illustrates an old axiom: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

JEWISH SOLDIERS GIVE UP HOLIDAY FURLOUGHS, CAMP FORREST, TENN. – Thousands of Officers and Enlisted Men of the Jewish Faith Have Given Up Their Holiday Furlough This Year In Order to Make it Possible for the Maximum Number of Their Christian Fellow Soldiers to Be Home With Their Families on Christmas. Here Two of the Christian Soldiers Thank Their Jewish Buddies for Giving Up Their Furloughs. Left to Right: Sergeant Philip Gale, Corporal H.E. Taylor, Both of Springfield, IL, and Private George Cooper and Sergeant Walter Romanchik, Both of Chicago, December 23, 1941

I wish all of my readers and friends a Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah. Today is the first time in nearly 40 years (1978) that Christmas Day and the first day of Chanukah coincide, and it’s a cool thing. Above is a photo of Jewish-American U.S. Army soldiers during World War II, giving up their furlough days and remaining on duty so that their Christian counterparts could go home and celebrate Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

These are the rest of the Christmas weekend movies, in addition to those I reviewed on Wednesday. These debuted on Friday and today, and neither are worth seeing. Not even close. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Finally! Three out of the four new movies in theaters today are good–some very good. One, not so much. (Three more new movies coming out Friday, none of ’em good. Stay tuned for my reviews of those, then.) Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Only one good new movie in theaters this weekend, and it’s one of the best of the year. Read the rest of this entry »