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Apr 27, 2016, 2:44 PM

Electricomics…Activate!

Super Jew Comics (photo credit: courtesy)

What happens when you 'electrify' comics? Digital comics offer fans a whole new point of view

Aug 21, 2015, 12:41 PM

The Start-Up Comic Book Upstart

A panel from 'Stoners' (Courtesy)

One man's foray into anime culture has borne some interesting fruit - and a new business

Feb 21, 2014, 10:21 AM

The marital discord of American Hustle: Movie review

In the dying moments of 2013, American Hustle scores a home run in the nick of time to be one of the best flicks of the year. It was with some sense of surprise I sat in the cinema watching...

Feb 10, 2014, 4:31 PM

The light in despair

“You know what problems are? It’s just G-d trying to get your attention!” And with those words, I decided to become frum. Twenty something years later I still am. These were the first words I heard from HaRav Noach Weinberg, Z”L...

Dec 24, 2013, 9:39 PM

Deck the Pagoda with boughs of holly, tra la la la la….

(Lido Beach, Tiberias, contact details at the bottom of this review) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as the old song goes. December 25th is creeping up and the Kosher Kritic finds himself in a seasonal mood. And...

Dec 20, 2013, 10:47 AM

Faster than a speeding bullet…. but still 30 minutes too long – Man of Steel movie review

Rested, reinvigorated and reinvented - Superman is back again for a new cinematic generation, but has the baby been thrown out with the bathwater? The short answer is...well...yes it has - but I'd still recommend it as a movie worth...

Dec 12, 2013, 11:03 PM

An excess of elf confidence? The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug movie review

It’s a snow day in Israel, where one can’t get to school or work, but find time to goof off at the movies – so half the Kosher Kritic family slunk off to use someone else’s heating for a...

Dec 11, 2013, 10:00 PM

Restaurant review: Dobrovin Farm – Rustic charm in the north of Israel

(15 minutes from Kiryat Shemona, contact details at the bottom of this review) Finding one’s niche in the crowded restaurant scene is not an easy thing, and the proprietors of the exquisite Dobrovin Farm have one or two wild cards...

Dec 8, 2013, 9:19 PM

One giant leap for movie kind! Gravity Movie Review

Isaac Newton might have thought he’d stumbled upon a bit of a winner in terms of world changing scientific concepts when an apple fell on his noggin. But unbeknownst to him, he’d actually, and far more significantly, come up...

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Tzvi Lebetkin: Writer, Adventurer, Private Consulting Detective & Lover. Kosher Kritic & Rabbi from another planet. Available for screenplays, comic books, weddings, divorces and bar mitzvahs.