Jewlicious in the World Jewish Digest

To say that blogging won’t be in the future is the same as saying that the good ole funky bulletin board in the University Square and Dorm entrances don’t exist either… It the same thing, more or less… nu?

Who is this nice girl on the picture?

No worries ck! I think will stick around a while.

i know we are all jews and we all need to talk all the time. but the article isnt saying that jews will stop talking, it just implies that the medium will evolve to something new. so i was just wondering that since you are the ones who shape today;s blogosphere you also might have a feeling where it goes to.

Ck,

You have been yapping about youre arivall here for the last few days.

Congrats on the nice write-up. Your blog is wonderful and refreshing, and it does provide a valuable service. I like how in the article you said that you want to show you can be Orthodox, Zionist and cool at same time. Damn straight. For various reasons relgion and Zionism suffer from an unfortunate and entirely unnescessary association with frumpiness. Our future success depends in part on defeating this myth, and personal example is the best way to do it.

Young people in particular don’t want to be associated with anything that’s associated with the Establishment, the Man, etc. Thus religious cynicism, post-Zionism, and so forth.

Of course the irony is that Orthodoxy is entirely radical, placing the priamcy of Hashem and his commandments over whatever the current conventional wisdom is. And Israel, surrounded by hostile nations, constantly denounced at the U.N., is perhaps the most anti-Establishment nation on earth. Zionism is itself radical: it posits that history is not a river, not a blind force that carries us along. In conventional history, when a group is kicked out of its homeland for 200 years, they’re done for, forget them, hang up the ballet slippers, game over.

Zionism (and Torah, its the same thing) teaches that we can assert ourselves upon history, with the help of HaShem. The creation of the State of Israel is the most radical event in 2000 years, because it required a thinking outside of the box on an extraordinary scale. 2000 years of thinking outside the box.

And of course more radical events await us: really post-zionism and other forms of cynicism dont ask the Jews to be to give up reactionary views, they ask us to give up radical unique views, our special understanding of ourselves. In other words, they want us to join the Man.

Nice Sheem-tov! Could you be so nice and define “frumpiness” for me?

Michael! You seem to know everybody around who is the girl with ck on the picture?

“Frumpy,” to answer client’s question, means “dowdy or drab” according to Webster’s. I hadn’t noticed that “frumpy” contains “frum” in it — its of course entirely coincidental — but sets the stage for some nice punning possibilities.

Thanks Michael, I knew you are the guy to ask. So this is the famous Laya!?
Shem-tov, you did confuse me with this “frumkite” inside the frumpiness and the association is very interesting.

you guys in israel when do u actually sleep? or you just always hi on israel and have no need to sleep?

drugz are baaad! i agree. ck dont sleep at the game though.

ck, there is a difference if you do tour de monde rouge-oeil (red-eye?) and when u just live somewhere and just live without sleeping, right?

yo guys- mazel tov on the whole bloggage-fame thing. u make this fruma shep much naches!

I thought it was Abutbul

CK,

you guys are up early
LA is dead in the morning
maybe dead at night….
maybe we are just dead here

Hey… Don’t knock Kfar Saba, that place is awsome. I’m probably a bit biased and all, being the my saba’s saba (my Saba Raba) is the Saba in Kfar Saba, so I have some roots in the place. Yeah yeah, my grandfather’s grandfather started a yeshiva there long before Independance, Originally there were only 4 farms, and now it’s a bustling metropolus, similar to a P’Tach Tikvah. My Grandfather was born there over 80 years ago, and still lives in the house across the street from where he was born. (It’s easy to find, it’s the only single story, single family house that’s left amid the malls and apartment complexes. What I will say for it though is that it is a lot more Israeli then J-town seems to be these days. You won’t hear English in Kfar Saba and the Sabra’s are in full force. It’s got an award winning open air mall that should be checked out and supported, it’s been the sight of quite a few previous terror attacks. And the local tresure, Penguin’s Ice Cream shop makes homemade ice cream that is the best in the World. So while my grandfather has been trying to convince me to move there and carry on the family legacy for years (something I have no intention of doing, just not into big city’s I guess (cept for J-town, and Tsfat if it qualifies, more out of fame then size) It deffenetly is a place worth checking out.