This week we publish from KOACH Kallah 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania. We’ll be talking to the young college Jews about our favorite biblical comic.
In this week’s parsha, Moses is alone with YHWH in Her private, mountaintop abode. Does our god reveal to her favorite human the meaning of life? Does she allow him [...]
I stopped a video on YouTube and took a screenshot. So what, Britney Spears shaved her head. We all chopped our hair in HS or college and she didn’t have that opportunity. I think it looks pretty good. But she’s also still wearing that big ol’ Star of David.
Britney, what are you trying to tell [...]
If you watch HBO’s series Rome, you may have noticted that “Tymon” has been augmented by his brother Levi, and that the Jewish angle is being explored on the series. Newly arrived from Jerusalem, Levi has hinted at his displeasure with the Judean leadership accepting Roman yoke. Saying he has arrived in Rome to [...]
TV’s revenge for my watching a little too much Star Trek as a kid is my father really liking Boston Legal and its star, Denny Crane, aka Willliam Shatner aka Captain Kirk (everyone together in your Ricardo Montleban voice: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirk!).
Granted, I don’t seem to have the same fascination as sometimes does Psychotoddler, but I do [...]
I’m not sure what’s more frightening about this experience that Guth had, that it happened at all or that it came out of the mouth of a US Serviceman…
We spent this week in Phoenix as Aaron guest hosted the Mike Malloy show on the new NovaM Radio Network.
This week’s portion, Moses and 70 elders of Israel have lunch with their god, YHWH, and we see, once again, that Moses is G!d’s favorite Hebrew.
Meanwhile, in heaven, we peek in on a Torah study session [...]
True Ancestor isn’t a regular read of mine but its one of the funnier things I’ve read about the passing of Anna Nicole Smith. Actually its the only things I’ve read about it, but its pretty good:
One was driven to destruction by warring interests, a quest for power, slavish devotion and feverish worship, and upon [...]
Mazel Tov to the Klezmatics for winning a Grammy Award for the best Album in Contemporary World Music.
Alternet reports on the man who may make the man who might be President…
Now that its official and everything, you may want to understand just how its gonna happen.
The man behind the plan? David Axelrod… Read how he did it last time ’round.
Last time? What you talkin’ bout Willis? Those of you who think Obama [...]
The self-proclaimed Hasidic Reggae Superstar got his big media break on Jimmy Kimmel live a couple years back. Many people caught his more recent performance on the show last month and have acknowledged it as AWFUL. But some of us have been saying that for some time. Many people I’ve talked to who’s [...]
The Lincoln Park Chad Society does a fine job ribbing its own Gap Khakis wearing image, and I laugh at their Stella quaffing, alternapeople gawking, Trixie-chading escapades. Except when they go and say something stupid like this:
“Every afternoon, while their husbands are out being Jewish and trading money, the Highland Park mom brings [...]
We’re back from Israel for a short week of comic creation. Almost over jet lag but the grand adventure of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour was more than worth it.
This week all of Israel hears G@d deliver the Ten Commandments… sort of. There are lots of midrashim about what actually happened when big momma herself delivered [...]
I’m observing seven days of mourning for the demise of the Bears. Rex Grossman has to go. Oy.
A report by Haifa University’s Faculty of Education says that Arab/Jewish peace education programs have little or no impact. Huh…
The research focused on more than 1,000 pupils aged 15 and 16 who participated in coexistence programs for seven months. One of the researchers, Dr. Yigal Rosen, blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for shaping opinions among [...]
We are meeting up tomorrow night at the Fixx to talk Israel. We’ll be missing our rabbi, so it will be a very personal chat–traveling to Israel, tzedeka and not so much the politics. Will we see you there?
Leave it to Jews on both sides of the political debate to make a mess of things on the New Year of the Trees. ShamirPower of Jewschool offers some nice productive ways to plant trees this year in an environmentally sustainable way.
Meanwhile two groups in the West Bank are truly making a mess of [...]
Neo-hassidish Klezmer genius Andy Statman will play a show Monday night, February 5, at Martyrs. Its a rare Chicago performance but the sometimes klez sometime bluegrass player will be backed by a bluegrass trio so its unclear if he’ll be playing msuic from the Mountains or Moldavia… Still should be interesting.
Post No Bills writes it [...]
The posterboy for 80’s Twin City Rock makes an appearance at the Abbey Pub Tuesday evening to sing, chat about Jewish life, his kids and hopefully improvise some songs on the spot. How you spell sweetwheat? Sponosred by Nextbook.
Before Husker Du and The Replacements made Minneapolis synonymous with 80’s rock, singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman was fronting [...]
Daaaaaaaaaaaa bears dabears dabears dabears dabears…
Daaaaaaaaaaaa bears dabears dabears dabears dabears…
Daaaaaaaaaaaa bears dabears dabears dabears dabears…
Da. Bears.
In this weather, you might just freeze to it, and that’s not fun. Just our little Pikuach Nefesh intervention.
But instead stay inside and have a Tu Bshvat seder to celebrate the New Year of the Trees…
