by Mobius · Friday, January 30th, 2004
Yes, I know, it’s incredibly un-PC of me, but when I was a kid I used to roll with a fistfull of skinheads. Not neo-Nazis or white power skins or anything like that, obviously. Generally they were SHARPies (skinheads against racial prejudice) and RASHes (red and anarchist skinheads), and they went around beating up racist skinheads or just got drunk and went to punk and ska shows. Anyhow, being rather familiar with skinhead culture, of course one can’t escape exposure to some of the neo-Nazi elements, one of which, of course, is the music.
One of the most popular of all neo-Nazi skinhead bands is a group called Skrewdriver, a metal band fronted by the racist stooge Ian Stuart, whose lyrics demonized blacks and Jews and anyone not of “pure Aryan blood” (like anyone’s a pure Aryan these days anyway).
What’s the relevance of all this? One of our readers just fowarded me a link to Jewdriver, a Skrewdriver spoof-band, which parodies their classic songs and reworks them with Jewish-nationlist lyrics.
Jewdriver was first conceived at a secret location in Oakland, California (circa 1994) when Ian Stuartstein and a fellow named Jay Oniskinwitz were sharing a bottle of Cherry Manischewitz (our official drink), something infected our brains that night and thought wouldn’t a Jewish Skinhead band be a great idea?!”
A brilliant idea, really. ROTFL doesn’t begin to describe the sheer joy… (c/o Davidissimo)
by Mobius · Thursday, January 29th, 2004
“Inspired by the MC Paul Barman lyric, ‘I couldn’t stay calm because/she revealed a bra made of two yarmulkes,’ designer KS turns the fantasy into a reality.” (c/o Darieus)
by shamirpower · Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
Israeli politics and protests getting you down? It’s time to reinvigorate with some cultural events which will take you back to those rockin’ Thursday nights on your semester abroad in Tel Aviv, or perhaps that random David Broza concert you once went to in college. Perhaps you just want an excuse to hear some Hebrew outside of the synagogue?
The New York Israeli Consulate now compiles a variety of Israeli music, theatre and other cultural events happening throughout the city on one tidy website. They also point you to a helpful set of links with information on organizations and events beyond New York provided by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Now put down that old fashioned falafel and get out and experience some modern Israeli life…without leaving the country.
by The Town Crier · Sunday, January 25th, 2004
A new Israeli ad campaign for Yoplait Yogurt, will feature a popular stunt seen in the sweaty dancing circles of Orthodox weddings, which features a frolicking Haredi wearing a black hat all ablaze. I can’t wait to see a McDonalds ad featuring the Chosson/Kallah “walk in” under a row of “Golden Arches.”
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
The IDF “swooped” on an illegal outpost in the West Bank this Tuesday, and tore down a synagogue built in honor of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, and proponent of an expulsion and/or extermination policy towards Arab residents of Israel. Kahane, who was assassinated by an Arab gunman in New York in 1990, also founded the political party Kach, which was banned from the Israeli knesset, and has been deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, who, in October of last year, made it known that Americans who provide funding to the organization’s website alone would be charged with providing material support to a terror organization.
Of course, differing in opinion from both the Israeli and U.S. governments, the settlers of Tapuach West believe that Kahane was right, and that his vision of an ethnically cleansed Israel is one worth fighting for.
A Jewish settler is ‘escorted’ from a protest against the destruction of the Esh Harav Meir Yeshiva in Tapuach.
“Suppose they come with their bulldozers,” [Rabbi] Ben Yaacov said. I imagine there will be firm resistance in that case. But the people will return a few minutes later and pitch a tent, and put a torah scroll in it. There is no end to it. A tractor can never win against the spirit of those who adhere to an idea.”
Boy that sounds familiar. While you “tzaddikim” are crying over your little synagogue of hate, 300 Palestinians were made homeless by bulldozers in Gaza. Of course, your yeshiva teaches that that is a good thing. Lucky for you the IDF hasn’t come for your illegal houses… yet.
Click here to see more photos of the Tapuach protest, including the destruction of the synagogue by Israeli bulldozers. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of nor happy about, but then again, neither is the mindset these people espouse. The line has to be drawn somewhere.
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
According to a survey of students at Tichon Hadash, “one of Tel Aviv’s most prestigious and yuppiest high schools,” 57% of female students have reported having “sexual relations” as opposed to 34% of the boys. A full 35% of the girls surveyd have fessed’ up to fuckin’, compared to only 17% of the boys.
Dayaaaamn. You know what that means—there be some lucky fellers up in that high school. Very naughty, but very lucky. Sheeeeit. 
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Jeffrey Dekro and Lawrence Bush cover 350 years of “Jewish life, and Jewish activism, in the United States,” in the latest issue of Jewish Currents.
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Chanting “Death to the Arabs,” hundreds of young Jewish soccer fans race up a dusty side street to catch a bus carrying fans of the Arab team that had just beat theirs in a tense game.
The supporters jeer even after the bus pulls away. Moments earlier, an Arab fan had been hit in the head with a rock, bloodying his forehead.
Welcome to professional soccer in Israel, where racism and violence have become part of the country’s most popular sport.
What thoroughly disgusting behavior. Pretty much substantiates my point about nationalistic idiocy tho, don’t it?
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
“In the latest in a series of food scares, U.S. scientists have published research warning that farmed Scottish salmon — the source of the majority of British Jewry’s staple fish — contains high levels of potentially carcinogenic dioxins.”
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Art Garfunkel, part of the folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel, was charged with marijuana possession after police pulled his limousine over for speeding in upstate New York.
Poor, poor Art. (c/o Blog in DM)
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
“The Nazis were for gun control, the Nazis were for high marginal tax rates,” says Grover Norquist in an interview with The Forward this week. “Do you want to talk about who’s closer politically to national socialism, the Right or the Left?”
Yeah but, uh, Grover, regardless of what JPFO says, the Nazis didn’t have gun control. And, uh also, the reason taxes were so high in Nazi Germany was because over 70% of the population was unemployed. The government was hemmoraging funds in the form of welfare. But whatever. You know so much better.
Jackass.
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
The Jewish Week reports,
The city Department of Transportation rejected a request for a road sign reading “Leaving Brooklyn: Oy Vey!” made by Borough President Marty Markowitz. The city said the sign would be more distracting than helpful for motorists leaving Brooklyn for Manhattan on the Williamsburg Bridge, according to The Associated Press.
Markowitz said the Yiddish phrase now is a “common Brooklyn expression” and “I’m sorry if the DOT has no sense of humor.”
The city also rejected a sign reading “Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit!” at another city bridge.
“Oy vey” is right.
by The Town Crier · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
The Staten Island Advance does a thoroughly in depth piece on the trend of popular Orthodox Jewish websites. Among those noted are Frumster, Onlysimchas, Bangitout and Virtual Jerusalem. Sadly, none of the J-Blogs were cited.
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Just a friendly heads up for all y’all North Jersey folk… Hassidic virtuoso guitarist Yossi Piamenta, known to many as “the Hasidic Hendrix,” will be rockin’ out Bergen County’s best rock club/restaurant, Mexicali Blues, on Thursday, February 12. Mexicali is located at 1409 Queen Anne Rd. in Teaneck, NJ.
by Mobius · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
This advertisement, belive it or not, is for a Japenese production of Fiddler on the Roof, which features an all-Japanese cast, and which was (honest-to-goodness) produced by Toho Co., Ltd., the company responsible for the Godzilla franchise. Haw haw! (c/o Royal Journal of Found Art)
by The Town Crier · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
According to Russian mathemeticians, the Biblical parting of the Red Sea was indeed scientifically possible. Whew, I’m glad we’ve got that one cleared up.
by The Town Crier · Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Revealed: Native Americans in Texas found charred pages of Hebrew text several months ago, which was later identified as the space diary of Israeli combat pilot and Israel’s first astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon. Only eight pages were legibly readable, as the rest had been bleached white from the heat upon entry to the earth’s atmosphere. Interestingly enough, Israeli scientists, who have spent years reconstructing and deciphering ancient manuscripts, were able to apply their methods in this case to ressurect some contents of the diary.
by The Town Crier · Thursday, January 22nd, 2004
“On February 16 at 9 PM (ET/PT), Showtime will premiere the original picture Crown Heights, starring Mario Van Peebles and Howie Mandel. The multi-layered film takes place in the wake of the Crown Heights race riots where long-simmering tensions were brought to the surface after an African-American child was killed in a tragic car accident. Based on a true story, the film dramatizes how two community leaders strove to create dialogue and foster cultural understanding between the Jewish and African-American residents in Crown Heights by founding Project Cure. As a result, two boys, an African-American and an Orthodox Hasidic Jew, come together to form a rap group and discover a friendship that sets an example for their peers and their parents.”
