Yid Rock, Jewpac, Rockin’ the Hebe Hop

by grubness [➚] · Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

Ok lets get one thing straight. Jews are meant to produce rap not to actually rap. 50 Shekel in the hizzzouse.. Sippin Manchiwetz like its your birfday.

Sorry, no cholent here

by Benyamin [➚] · Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

The Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) just announced that their annual “Vegetarian Shabbat” will take place this year on Shabbat Parshat Beha’alotcha (June 20-21, 2003). The Torah portion read that week relates the infamous story of the Jewish people crying out for meat and God punishing them with the plague of quail. If you recall from Sunday school, many of the Children of Israel died from ingesting the foul fowl. According to a press release, “JVNA is urging synagogues and other Jewish institutions to have events during the Vegetarian Shabbat, including sermons, divrei Torah, debates, panel discussions, and vegetarian kiddushes and meals”.

I wonder what the Cambridge Cholent society thinks.

The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics (and Starbucks)

by shamirpower [➚] · Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announces the publication of a new ADL research report, The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics. This report was written by ADL rabbinical staff to help respond to the growing number of anti-Semites who cite Talmudic passages as evidence that Judaism is depraved and immoral.

This report was written to help Jewish individuals understand and respond to these allegations by explicating the Talmudic texts that are being distorted. Anti-Semitic claims refuted in the report include Judaism viewing non-Jews as “non-human,” Judaism encouraging child molestation, not trusting Jews because they recite the Kol Nidre prayer that authorizes them to lie to non-Jews, the claim that Judaism demands that non-Jews who study Jewish law be put to death, and the claim that the Talmud employs the name Bala’am as a derogatory code name for Jesus.
(c/o Aryeh Tuchman)

Also, in case you were interested, the ADL also reports that the Startbucks rumor is false.

Too Sacred to be Discussed

by Douglas [➚] · Monday, June 2nd, 2003

The UJA just yanked their interview with me from their web site for being too, well, you be the judge.