In Vain
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Swang on Deez Nutz
Meet Chingo Bling, the Latino answer to 50 Shekel. Ay, at least he writes his own music!
Speaking of which, homeboy Shekel jacked an entire Brian McKnight song for what is, in all probability, the worst and most exploitative song in the history of Jewish hip hop. Check out his latest track, “We Miss You.”
Man, I just lost my appetite…
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Orthodox Anarchist Launches
My new blog, Orthodox Anarchist, is live in effect. Join me as I document my journey to Israel.
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This Is What An Apartheid State Looks Like
The road to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (c/o Hootinan)
Hey, if you’re gonna criticize Israel for the wall (which I’m with you on) at least be consistent across the board.
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Jewish Heritage Week? Just missed it…
Apparently Resident Bush issued a proclamation for the recognition of Jewish Heritage Week last Saturday. Yes, yes, he issued a proclamation celebrating Jewish culture on, er well, Shabbos. And you wonder why you didn’t see it reported anywhere…
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Sabeel holds “Challenging Christian Zionism” Conference in Jerusalem
Over 600 Christian bible scholars, religious leaders and peace activists representing 32 countries, gathered in Jerusalem’s Notre Dame Center April 14-18 for The Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center’s conference, “Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics, and the Palestine-Israel Conflict.”
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The conference theme of Christian Zionism addressed a worldwide theological and political movement that embraces extreme ideological positions based on selected scriptural texts and which, according to conference presenters, form a worldview that is detrimental to a just peace in the Holy Land.
Read on or click here to read the conference’s final statement.
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Jewish Women Rally For Choice
Thousands of Jewish women joined hundreds of thousands of American women — and a smattering of men — rallying for abortion rights at the National Mall.
“As Jews, we know what it means to have fundamental rights and liberties stripped away,” Marsha Atkind, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, told the overflow crowd. “And today, one of our most basic rights, our right to reproductive freedom, is under attack in courtrooms and legislatures across the country.”
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Now With Walk-On-Water Action!
Peep the all-new Jesus Christ action figure playset. Ouch.
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This Tabloid Blows
Practicing “good clean journalism,” a new “clean” Israeli newspaper has hit the stands. Shofar News run by a goup of followers of Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak pledges “a source of news without gossip, sleaziness, or lashon hara.” Sho Far the paper is distributed all over Israel and is also available in Miami, Mexico City and New York.
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The Ruin of Rawkus
In 1995, however, two barely legal Jewish kids just out of Brown had taken a stand, though not for hip-hop—they were jazz heads, more Mingus and ‘Trane than Moe Dee and Kane. Brian Brater and Jarret Myer had known each other since they were three. Brater’s honey was an upright bass; Myer dated her sister, a guitar. But they both fell for the chicks more than the chicks fell for them. So they figured that if they weren’t destined to make beautiful music, they’d make a beautiful world where music could live.
The Village Voice examines the rise and fall of Rawkus Records.
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Material Girl in the Holy Land
Getting frummer by the minute, pop star, author and kabbalist Madonna will stage two concerts in Tel Aviv’s Bloomfied stadium, this September as part of her wold tour. The Israel shows are being lauded as the material girl’s defiance of the US State Department warning to citizens not to travel there.
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German TV Show Invokes Antisemitic Imagery
From Davids Medienkritik comes word of a sketch “comedy” bit, set to air tomorrow night on German public television, in which a chassidishe Jew gloats and laughs as he sits upon on the back of suffering Palestinian.
Is this antisemitism or political commentary with an unfortunate choice in characterization? Medienkritik’s David Kaspar tends to think it’s the former, but adds that he sees it as “a bias of the German media, not of the German people.”
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Elvisrael Has Left The Building
I just thought it was too cute a photo to pass up. It accompanied a rather provoking article on the intensification of Yom Ha’Atzmut celebrations at UCLA in the face of increasing hostilities towards Israel on campus.
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I’m Goin’ To Israel
[Revised] Ladies and gentlemen, I have been accepted for the Dorot Fellowship in Israel. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be taking up residence in Jerusalem at the end of July, and attending Pardes (whose site appears to be down ATM).
To answer a few questions—yes, we should all get together and chill. Maybe once I’m there for a little while I can book a venue and throw a Jewschool party. Here’s what I look like in case you bump into me on the street. I will be blogging from Israel—I ain’t goin’ unless I have broadband guaranteed. And I intend to keep a new blog, which I’ll be calling “The Orthodox Anarchist.” There I’ll be documenting my, mmm, internal conflict with Jewish theology and anarchist philosophy.
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JTA on the Jooglebomb
Welp, he slightly fudged one of my quotes (what I said was “the Jewish people have a right to define ourselves before our detractors do so fo us”) and the counter-campaign is against Wikipedia, not Jewschool, but anyway, The JTA’s Joe Berkofsky has chimed in on the Jooglebomb.
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Jehovah Hu Akbar
“Abrahamic Apparel is intended to provide some chizuk, support for those students and other Jews and supporters of Israel and allow them to show their Jewish pride and support for Israel in a language that literally the mutterers will understand.”
The new line of embroidered hats and t-shirts bear incendiary Arabic phrases such as “Am Yisrael Chai” (which is Hebrew for “The Jewish People Live”), “Dhimmi? Not Any More!” and “There Is No God But YHVH and Moses Is His Messenger.” Though most of the shirts are humorous, one is exceptionally offputting. It reads simply, “There Is No Palestine.”
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The Russell Crowe Judaica Library
“Tough guy actor Russell Crowe was so upset by a fire-bombing at a Jewish elementary school in Montreal, he called the school to offer a donation to help rebuild its library, a school spokeswoman said on Tuesday.”
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Card sharks
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency ran a story about rabbi trading cards, the Jewish equivalent of baseball cards. The money quote? “This isn’t Hollywood; we’re not dealing with models,” says photographer Ed Bernstein. “It’s very atypical for a rosh yeshiva to stop what he’s doing and pose for a photo.” One rabbi made Bernstein promise to take a widow from his congregation out on a date before he agreed to pose.
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