by shamirpower [➚] · Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Listen up Jewschoolers:
Shemspeed is giving you all the chance to remix from our files. First up is Y-Love next will be Pharaoh’s Daughter and they will keep coming. Here is how it works!
We give you the instrumentals and accapellas and you use whatever program you would like to make your own remixes from these files. We recommend Ableton (download a free trial here). You have the chance to remix four different singles off the “This is Babylon” album.
Once you finish the remix submit it to Shemspeed (djhandler@shemspeed.com) and have a chance to win a Shemspeed fun pack (includes CDs, Stickers, Posters, Fliers and an official Shemspeed T Shirt).
have fun!
DOWNLOAD ALL FILES AT www.ylovemusic.com/remix to listen to the songs in full go to myspace.com/ylove.
by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Want to be eligible to win a $500 American Airlines travel voucher?
A group of NYU Wagner students are surveying young Jews as part of our capstone project, and they need your help!
Please visit www.youngjewsandtheworld.com and complete our short, simple survey. Also, please forward this link to the survey to your friends, their friends, and your family. We want to reach as broad a sample as possible.
To learn more about NYU Wagner, and the capstone project in particular, visit www.wagner.nyu.edu/capstone
Thank you in advance for your help!
by BZ [➚] · Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Here at Jewschool, we’ve had some posts and comments that have been critical of Israel, so it’s only fair that we balance our coverage with some flagwaving. 5.2 metric tons of it.
That’s right, today marked the unfurling of the largest flag in the world, measuring 660 meters by 100 meters. (For the Americans, that means the short side measures one football field).
Filipino entrepreneur and evangelical Christian Grace Galindez-Gupana said she decided two years ago to produce a giant Israeli flag as a testament to her love for Israel and the Jewish people, and as a celebration of 50 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Israel.
“God spoke to me in thunder and lightening,” Galindez-Gupana said. “The Lord said, ‘Make the flag of Israel, the standard of my people.’”
Personally, I think this flag isn’t nearly as tasty as the world’s largest hamentashen, but then again I’m one of those lefties.
by matthue [➚] · Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
…and, come on, who would be surprised that it’s me posting this?
Adam Schechter, editor of the libidinous online poetry journal The Blue Jew Yorker, just passed this to me. And who would I share it with, if not for you? Enjoy. And flood that messed up Jewish boy’s inbox, if you please.
The online arts and culture journal, The Blue Jew Yorker, is now seeking entries for its “The Ultimate Messed Up Jewish Boy” Poem Contest. Girls are welcome to apply. Please submit your uniquely neurotic, financially dysfunctional, sexually grotesque, inappropriately dependent, narcissistically whiny (or whatever disturbing criteria you feel qualifies) poem to thebluejewyorker@gmail.com. The winner will receive a prominent place in the next online issue and of course be able to proudly wear the title as awarded by the editor of The Blue Jew Yorker.
by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Friday, August 17th, 2007
Wexner Fellow and Jewish food blogger Ariela over at BakingandBooks.com is raffling up an avalanche of cookbooks, Jewish and otherwise, in support of Hazon, known better as the “People of the Bike” and increasingly as the “People of the Cookbook.”
From now until September 3rd, BakingandBooks.com will be hosting a book raffle in order to raise money for the 2007 New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride and – thanks to donations from Hyperion Books, Ten Speed Press, Penguin, HarperCollins, Wiley and Chronicle Books – there are 76 prizes up for grabs. For every $5 donation to this very worthy cause participants will be given one virtual raffle ticket – and yes, people with more than one ticket can win more than one prize! You can learn more about this raffle here.
Four Grand Prizes
Four lucky winners will receive a copy of “Forever Summer,†“Jamie’s Italy,†“Mollie Katzen’s Sunlight Cafe†and “The Essence of Chocolate.†That’s right, four books!
4 Grand Prizes
Sixty Individual Prizes 
60 individual prizesClick here to read the full list and buy a ticket!
Hazon is a nonprofit working towards a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community — as a step towards a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Chip in and eat up.
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by shamirpower [➚] · Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
You know you want to enter Boris Jackson’s contest. Maybe it’s because you wish you’d thought of it first or maybe it’s because you did think of it first. Or maybe because the entries so far are kinda lame. In any case, those electric spinning dreidels suddenly appear to be more useful than I thought…
by shamirpower [➚] · Monday, July 23rd, 2007
As we heard the other day, most stores in Israel were open this past Shabbat for the release of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. While the hype around this was pretty nuts, I have to say that the variety of headlines with this story has been the most exciting part:
Harry Potter’s Israel launch pits wizard vs rabbis (Reuters)
Will Harry Potter’s magic work in Israel? (CNN-IBN)
Harry Potter Angers Zionist regime (PressTV, Iran)
Gawker even gave him a kippah:
Can you think of an original headline funnier than those above for this story? Leave submissions in the comment field between now and next Shabbat. Jewschool editors will pick the top five and readers will have a chance to vote next week. Submissions of links to other funny headlines are welcome but will not be included in the contest.
by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Thursday, July 12th, 2007
From the man who brought you Who Let the Jews Out? and Schlepping Through the Alps, unassuming Nerve.com writer by day and instigator of dead-pan comedy by — well — day, Sam Apple entered into a competition to be better at being blogger Joel Stein than Joel Stein could be and now his piece “America’s Next Top Mohel: Shopping for a Chopper” is up as one of five finalists on the LA Times site.
Read the piece below and vote here!
America’s next top mohel
Shopping for a chopper.
By Sam Apple
July 10, 2007
I did not want just anyone to cut my son’s penis. I wanted the best. And so when my wife, Jennifer, neared the end of her pregnancy, I decided to interview mohels.
I had good reason to be nervous about ritual circumcisers. In 2004, three New York babies contracted herpes from a mohel, who, in keeping with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish tradition, used his mouth to draw blood from the wound. I had no intention of letting a mohel — or anyone else for that matter — put his mouth on my newborn son’s genitals, but the moral of the story was clear enough: If you’re going to chop off part of someone’s penis without asking permission, you’d better choose your chopper with care.
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by Mobius [➚] · Saturday, April 15th, 2006
1st Prize – Becki Kasoff
- Plague of the dreaded assigned seats.
- Plague of the drunken children, who drank the parents wine.
- Plague of the garlic mashed potatoes made with Coffee Mate Hazelnut cream.
Becki wins two free tickets to see When Do We Eat!
2nd Prize – Tamar Abigador
- My dad telling sex jokes at the table.
- My grandmother telling sex jokes at the table.
- The uncle who only discusses things he knows we are all going to end up yelling about.
Tamar wins an autographed When Do We Eat poster plus a When Do We Eat stressball.
1st Runner Up – Lisa Snow
- Matzo Balls as big as softballs and hard as rocks
- My father will start sweating into his soup and say “why do you have to boil the soup”
- Who ever finds the hidden Afikoman is the winner, the rest of the kids cry hysterically so we have to hide 4 to 6 pieces of matzoh to make everyone happy
Lisa, and 12 other contestants will also be receiving When Do We Eat stressballs.
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