Rather than the regular weekly Top Ten list, the loveley editors at Bang It Out have composed the following collection of Yo Momma snaps, in the spirit of Mother’s Day.
Yo Momma’s So Jewish…
Haha. I needed that. I’m in way over my head with all this antisemitism stuff. I’m getting throttled here…
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Check out BeliefNet’s full-fledged feature on Douglas Rushkoff and the theories he posits in his new book, Nothing Sacred.
Under the heading “Where Rushkoff Is Wrong,” the site also links to Gary Rosenblatt’s piece in the Jewish Week, which lightly criticizes Rushkoff’s perspective and touts Frank Luntz’s report as “required reading for every Jewish communal professional.” He, too, mistakenly labels Rushkoff as an atheist, as Lisa Anuradha Singh recently did in the Jerusalem Report.
Apparently, non-Jews who don’t support Zionism are antisemites, and Jews who don’t support Zionism are atheists. Ugh.
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Check out JewishSpeak, the latest satire piece by Jewish Women Watching. Yofi!
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One of my classmates at HUC Kollel, Tom Gardener, is featured in the latest Jewish Week, in an article about the recent rise in Rabbinical school applications and its relationship to the struggling economy.
Sure didn’t expect to see his picture when I cracked open the paper…
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Allow me to reiterate Rushkoff’s controversial op-ed, and say “they still don’t get it.”
Do Jewish philanthropies really believe cool-hunting will save Judaism? Sadly, it appears so, as the Bronfman Philanthropy’s latest offering contends: Introducing Israel in the Age of Eminem. Drafted by GOP strategist Frank Luntz, the document features a point by point plan for manipulating Jewish children into becoming Zionists, using the coercive techniques of modern marketing.
Hell, at least Palestinians are overt about their indoctrination. This is like shady-ass tobacco marketing. G*d forbid you should inspire children to love yiddishkeit by being truly righteous tzaddikkim and awakening a pure love of Hashem in them…Better to trick them into defending Israel, no matter the circumstance. Oy.
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Britain’s Farm Animal Welfare Council believes that the traditional manner in which Jews slaughter cows just ain’t “kosher” and plans to make demands that the government require all animals to be stunned before they are slaughtered. The problem? Such a practice would render meat halachically non-Kosher.
[A previous report] recommended that the government “require that the Jewish and Muslim communities review their methods of slaughter so as to develop alternatives which permit effective stunning.”While admitting that prohibitions against causing unnecessary suffering are an integral part of the laws governing kosher slaughter, the report argued that the Torah itself did not mandate a particular method for killing animals.
Is this true? And will this spell trouble for Britain’s Jewish community, or will parliament uphold principles of religious freedom?
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Israel celebrates its 55th with cook-outs and camp-outs. Local Palestinians cringe, call the day a “catastrophe.”
Aish HaTorah hopes to reinvigorate a love for ha’aretz among American Jews, and offers these 55 reasons to visit Israel. However, for most (especially in light of mainstream opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories) feelings towards Israel remain mixed.
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Sometimes good stories just write themselves. From the “this-could-only-happen-in-a-TV-sitcom” department, an Israeli policeman was sent to quiet down a rowdy all-female party at a Jerusalem apartment. Instead of being greeted with fear and respect, the policeman was mistaken for a male stripper sent to the party and the women began to undress and stroke the officer. “She took off my shirt and untied my shoelaces,” the officer was quoted by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily as saying about one of the partygoers. “She started stroking me and called on her friends to join in.”
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Check out Song of Solomon, a play about Judaism and sexuality, opening tonight @ the Classic Stage Co. (136 E. 13th b/t 3rd & 4th, NYC), 7 PM.
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On March 29, Rabbi Janet Marder was installed as the first woman president of the CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinate of the Reform movement). In her first sermon, Kos Y’shuot Esa she postulates what the sages might have said when commenting on this historic occasion.
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Now you can support Israel with your stomach. This Sunday May 4, restaurants in Toronto, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Livingston, NJ will be donating 10% of their earnings to seven worthy charities. B’tei Avon! (c/o Protocols)
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Does the “Neo-Conservative” Israel lobby really have as much influence on American foreign policy as some claim, or is this just another attempt by closet anti-Semites at scapegoating Jews?
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In his book “Making of a Godol” Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky depicts (“often in biographies for the Orthodox market“) the Lithuanian sages “wrestling with the lures of secular life.” This two-volume book was published privately by Rabbi Kamenetsky in a limited edition of only 1,000 copies. The $40 copies are now being auctioned off for hundreds of dollars.
For those of you dying to read it, the library at the Jewish Theological Seminary has acquired it. So has the library at Yeshiva University, though their copy is apparently sitting on a closed shelf.
“Jews should have learned long ago that there are dangers to us in suppressing books…when we start suppressing books, people will start suppressing our books.” (c/o nytimes.com)
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What’s the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? Last year the Jewish comedian got cold feet and bailed on a scheduled solidarity trip to Israel, instead sending his opening act, comedian Larry Miller. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Well it looks like Seinfeld, who once spent a summer living on a kibbutz in Israel, will be doing some repentance on May 19th when he is due to be among the headliners at a star-packed celebration of Israel’s 55th anniversary in Washington, D.C. Also expected at the “Spirit of Israel” event are President Bush, and Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Moshe Katsav. Among the other performers are Tony Bennett, Norah Jones, and Ben Stein. Tickets for the MCI Center show are available from ticketmaster.com.
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Jerusalem’s gay rights advocacy group, Jerusalem Open House, was awarded a victory this week when the city of Jerusalem was ordered to pay 40,000 NIS ($8,500) towards 2002′s gay pride parade. (c/o New Israel Fund News Release)
Of last year’s event, the LA Times wrote, “Undeterred by the outrage of ultra-Orthodox Jews or fear of terrorist attack, gay activists and their supporters marched through the heart of downtown Jerusalem under heavy police guard Friday in the city’s first gay pride parade.” The next parade will be June 13. So far they have not secured public funding for this event.
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Looks like George W. Bush is getting in touch with his Nazi roots. According to an article in this week’s Forward, “the Bush administration is undermining the fight to win compensation for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.” Apparently Bush doesn’t want Poland—a country which was complicit in Nazi attrocities during WWII—to pay restitution to Holocaust survivors because he feels they should be rewarded for their support in the recent invasion of Iraq. So, let me get this straight—he’s going to pay them back by letting them keep the money they stole from my grandparents?
I’d like to think it’s unrelated, but this is old-hat for the Bush family. While most politically conservative Jews tout Bush as “the best thing to ever happen to Israel,” few acknowledge that Dubya’s grandfathers George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush laundered money for the Nazi party and had their bank seized under the Trading With The Enemy Act.
And just so you don’t let Dubya off the hook and think the sentiments didn’t carry over and that he’s a-okay because he’s got Jews like that bastard Ari Fleischer in his cabinet*, The Austin-American Statesmen reported in December 1998, that, on his first visit to Israel, when asked what he would say to his Jewish hosts as a born again Christian, he jokingly replied, “You’re all going to hell!” But this has not been the only such remark uttered from the man’s fumbling lips. Bush has reiterated—and then backtracked on—this issue before.
*Personally I find such strong relationships between Zionists and the Bush administration serve to do Israel’s cause more harm than good. Counterpoint here.
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The National Library of the Jewish People (aka the Jewish National and University Library of Hebrew University in Jerusalem) has an online virtual exhibit that is not to be missed. Songs We Loved to Hear is a selection of 19 original recordings of Israeli hit songs produced before or shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel. To browse through a collection of over 1200 Jewish marriage contracts, the Ketubbot Digitization Project is your destination. In the Einstein’s section, check out a facsimile of his famous formula E=mc2 in his own handwriting.
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