Bikkurim Deadline Rapidly Approaching
Bikkurim is like the idealabs of innovative Jewish programs – except without the ridiculous sock puppet. Based out of New York, Bikkurim seeks to energize and enrich “the North American Jewish community by finding innovative Jewish ideas and nurturing them to sustainability.” Following the business incubator model, Bikkurim offers New York based Jewish innovators office space, technical assistance, networking opportunities and even some cash. So if you think you have the next JDub Records, Heeb Magazine or Limmud NY (all current or past resident groups) please begin your application process NOW. Your pre-application is due March 1st!! Otherwise, if this post is too late or if you totally missed the Bikkurim banner that’s been sitting on the side of the page for the last two weeks, well at least check out the very informative Web site so that you can prepare for the next round of applications.

Hat tip to Samantha Roth (no relation to Philip …), Bikkurim’s Administrative Coordinator for taking the time to introduce me to the ins and outs of the organization.

“I have two boys in my family…”–first words uttered by Dan on the Apprentice. And that’s why he was the first one picked by the dude who’s in Mensa…who keeps mentioning that he’s in Mensa…

It’s possible that none of you know what I’m talking about. But for those who do, you probably already know that this season of the Apprentice features two Contestants of the Tribe.

Unfortunately, because Daniel Brody is married, I can’t make him Single Semite of the Month. A shame, because he’s got the look.

And a look at the video interview over at the NBC Apprentice site shows you that he’s much more relatable than his glamour shot might indicate. Plus, his strong connection to tradition and to family would make him a perfect catch Apprentice. Actually, I guess we’ll see if it does…

Also, Brody is a YU graduate, and according to information on the internet, one of two Orthodox (or at least observant) Jews on the show. But I’m going to go ahead and proclaim him Jewlicious.

As far as religious wannabe Apprentice #2 is concerned, his name is Lee (”Jack and the”) Bienstock and he’s a graduate of HAFTR (pronounced like “after” and standing for the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway).

He’s young–22–and I have to say that his online interview wasn’t really as compelling as Dan’s (see them both at the NBC Apprentice site). But one place Lee beats His Jewish Hotness is in his answer to the following stumper of an interview question:

“If you could be any movie star from any era, who would you be and why?”

Lee said he’d be Robert De Niro, because he’s a great actor who has has the versatility to do comedy or drama well. Dan said he’d be Batman, because then he could get his four-year-old son to eat his vegetables. While this is a most pragmatic and yet whimsical response, I’m going to have to disqualify Dan, because he’s married Batman is not a movie star–he’s a fictional character. Am I being too harsh?

Anyway, should be interesting to see if Jewish practice comes up at all during this season…so far (20 minutes in), no visible kippot. So we’ll see…

In any case, both of them are pretty darned Jewlicious, that’s for sure.

Kosher or not, McDonalds is gross. Enjoy – your arteries will love you!

Tel Aviv has two kosher McDonald’s locations. Problem is that they look just like all the other locations. Potential problem: yeshiva dude comes to Tel Aviv, eats at the kosher McDonald’s one day, and assumes that all Tel Aviv locations are kosher. Wacky treif hijinks ensue.

But when it comes to kashrut, wacky treif hijinks aren’t the fun and games one might expect. So the Chief Rabbi is doing something about it, creating clearer signage for the two kosher locations. The kosher locations will now look different, bearing “new Hebrew-language signs with “kosher” clearly marked in the national colors of blue and white” whereas “the remainder of the some 100 branches in Israel retain the distinctive white, yellow and red signs in English.” (JTA)

So much for the new Israeli cable TV show “Yeshiva Girls and Guys Gone Treif.” And “Israel’s Funniest Kashrut Violation Home Videos.” To say nothing of Ashton Kutcher’s newest show, “Treif’d.”

(Yes, I’m done now.)

So close…
Well… we were supposed to be in the February 20 issue of New York Magazine. Apparently, the writer who called us told us that Jewlicious had been selected in an informal office poll as one of the 10 Blogs you have to bookmark right now. If you’re reading this, then this is not news to you. Sadly, this will continue to be news to New York Magazine’s 437,181 paid subscribers and Newyorkmag.com’s 1.1 million unique monthly visitors. See, what started off as a top ten list devolved into a feature called Five Cool Blogs to Check Out Now. Space constraints meant we were cut out. However, we did make it onto the graphic that accompanied the article (see photo). Yay Jewlicious. Phooey.

Oh well… at least we did win some JIB awards! I know it’s late but, better late than never. What did we win? Uh… 3rd Best Designed Blog (behind Jewschool and the stunning Cross-Currents – I guess blue and brown do go together!), Best Series for our Hate Site of the Weak series, 2nd Best Post for our post on Conservative Judaism post, Best Jewish Culture Blog (which really belongs to the Yadda Blog), 2nd Best Israel Advocacy Blog (behind Little Green Footballs) and 2nd best Group Blog. Lessons learnt? Vote shnorring is undignified, some bloggers are ridiculous. But just to show there are no hard feelings, we’ll re-post the press release put out by one victorious blog crew’s PR Agency announcing their victory. That’s right. A press release and a PR agency. OK so no one (but us) actually reproduced the press release. But what the hell – to the victors go the spoils!

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This is the kind of story that shows that fact really can be stranger than fiction. Hasan Bolkhari is the Iranian Education Minister, not part of a government known for supporting hermeneutics and deconstruction. Nonetheless, he boldly made a rather creepy post-modern suggestion that Derrida, Deluze and the rest would be proud of:

Watch Schindler’s List. Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed ‘dirty mice.’ Tom and Jerry was made in order to change the Europeans’ perception of mice. One of terms used was ‘dirty mice.’…Tom and Jerry was made in order to display the exact opposite image. If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised, and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute.

Unbe-fucking-leavable! European hermeneuticists and the like would drool over drawing such hidden connections! Hasan Bolkahri clearly should be teaching philosophy at the Sorbonne! Furthermore, like any good continental philosopher, Bolkahri provides some evidence for the premises in his argument:

Some say that this creation by Walt Disney will be remembered forever. The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon. It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.

OK, that wasn’t very convincing justification. If Bolkahri took Muffti’s class and handed this in, he’d probably get a C- at best.
>Muffti and his good friend Kenny noticed that Bolkhari’s thesis is applicable to another famous cat and mouse duo, Itchy and Scratchy, depicted up top. Scratchy, the cat, is the constant victim of Itchy’s murderous plots. Why would the Simpsons encourage such a reversal of the usual supposed cat and mouse dynamic? Well, clearly to reverse the perception of mice! Of course, the Muffti/Kenny case is a stretch because in Tom and Jerry, the mouse acted defensively against the cat’s acts of aggression while in Itchy and Scratcy, Scratchy is just the innocent victim of mouse-rage. But, as good post modernists, the Kenny/Muffti can back up their ridiculous theory with a ridiculous defense : ZOG is advancing from stage 1 of the take-over (where the Jews improve their image as mice to cute) to stage 2 (where the Jews try to get everyone else to accept the fact that they are about to be subject to the whims of the Jews).

Kenny and Muffti ought to be invited to give the key note address at the next big Iranian conference: The World Without Mice.

Hat tip to Media Backspin and MEMRI TV (where you can actually see the video of Bolkahari). Thanks to Kenny for pointing out the story in the first place, as well as the brilliant title. Thanks to Idan for the brilliant World Without Mice Image.

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The recipient of the HSOTW this time around is none other than White Revolution, a white power newsblog that is kind of like the anti-Jewlicious. It doesn’t seem to be very well read, at least if the 0 comments on every post are a telling indication. And they have been around for a while. A long damned while. Their archive stretches back to 2003. However, they chug along posting on a nearly daily basis.

What sort of posts? Well, here a few recent headlines:

- A Spreading Disease in Our Society
- “White Supremacy” is a redundancy
- “Holocaust Denial” Laws
- Irving rolls over and pees on himself to placate jews, still gets three years in prison.

To get a sense of their point of view, here are a few choice quotes:

We just saw a non-White writer complaining about “white supremacists.” That’s like moaning about “wet water.” Of course White people are supreme. Who would dare to claim otherwise?…As for the most famous non-White, the Jewish/communist “hero” Albert Einstein, he didn’t actually invent the theory of relativity [1]. Like many Jews, he borrowed or stole bits and pieces of White ideas to become a “genius.”

Great. Now these guys are probably going to accuse Muffti of not being original in his hate site posts. Like many other Jews, he just went to white sources and stole their literature! Oh well, in that vein, here’s some more:

The Invading Hordes of non-Whites have destroyed the property value and the very existence of this once magnificent building. Many other large cities have had similar problems with ever increasing numbers of non-Whites. More cities and more areas will soon look like this: a burntout husk of what was once a magnificent culture. At this point you would think, that it is obvious to all, that the non-Whites cannot handle the responsibilities that have been given to them. How did this come to be acceptable?

Well, many types of pre-employment tests are now illegal in America, thanks to various, Jewish-pushed “civil-rights” laws and/or lawsuits brought by Jewish “civil-rights” attorneys. Many pre-employment tests were found to “discriminate” against non-Whites, or women, or midgets, and so cannot be used by an employer today except under certain, government-approved guidelines [1]. What’s that?…the government has no right to tell private business owners how to hire people? Gee, that sounds…logical. Wasn’t logic outlawed years ago?

Anyhow, you get the picture. They don’t like blacks, they don’t like gays and they sure don’t like Jews, though they keep suggesting that somehow Jews were smart enough to take over America from the inside and then let people of other races destroy it. There is also a nice little dating site that they started. And by little, Muffti means little. It’s called ‘Selectively Single’ and it currently has 2 members, one male and one female. So, with any luck those two lonely birds will learn a nice word known as ‘default’ and get together. The really ironic and funny thing is that at the top of the Selectively Single page, you find the following words of introduction (emphasis Muffti’s):

See why is the fastest growing relationship site on the web. Take the Personality Profile and get instant, objective feedback on yourself and how you relate to others. The Personality Profile begins the exciting journey toward finding your true love.

Oh well. It’s probably still better than Jdate and Jmatch. (zing! Don’t go apoplectic CK!) Truthfully, Muffti feels a little leery about berating people for running sites that try to exclusively bring one type of people together with people of that same group (go ahead, y’all, give Muffti flack but surely you can see the mild tinge of hypocrisy).

In any case, White Revolution is a cleanly designed site run by self-congratulatory haters who bemoan how awful things are for white people. Stupidly. Here’s an excerpt.

e seek a paradigm shift in our values, a revolutionary worldview in our people, and a fundamental change in the form and focus of our governing bodies. The government of the United States of America, as well as all other formerly White controlled countries, seeks to deny Whites the right to White neighborhoods, White communities, White schools, White associations, and all other cultural tools necessary for the survival of our race. We recognize that so long as the news and entertainment media around the world are controlled by an alien race and their collaborators, who use their power and influence to control public opinion and the electoral process, there is no possibility for Whites to democratically regain control of our own destiny.

Luckily they aren’t into guns or violence:

When some people think of revolution, they think of guns and bombs and hand grenades. But for us, at this stage of the revolution, our weapons of choice are the pen, the leaflet, the keyboard, the videocamera, and every other weapon of mass construction which allows us to reach out to our people and awaken them to the dangers which threaten our very existence. The time may well come when we will communicate to our enemies in a manner which they will find unambiguous, but for now we must lay the foundation and create the support networks which will be necessary for any future endeavors.

Sure thing guys! Let us know how that all works out for you! Perhaps at some point someone will actually bother show up and read your words of brilliance, maybe demonstrate some support by leaving, you know, one damn comment?

Muffti recommends reading some of the stories they give a view into the mind of a white power type who is actually fairly articulate (even if not really all that bright).

I remember being perplexed at how people could eat so many vegetables for breakfast. I remember hiking in the hills outside of Jerusalem and knowing that at some point I would live at least a fraction of my life in Israel. I remember my best friend Sara turning the most ungodly shade of grey after a long night of drinking and a particularly windy bus ride. I remember seeing the security fence and marveling at how close the cities on either side were to eachother. I remember Noam, the foxy guard. I remember visiting the kotel when it was hailing. I remember Joe Perlov’s amazing map exercise. I remember wading out into the Kinneret among the reeds as the sun set. I remember South Americans and French birthrighters gathering around a fire with us Americans and all of us, while unable to chit chat in any common language, singing Jewish songs together. I remember the breathtaking dome of stars out in the Negev. I remember the Israelis who spent a few days with us and how open and enthusiastic they were. I remember holding my scarf in the wind at the top of Massada and watching it flap like a flag as the sun rose in the distance. I remember Yad Vashem. I remember the Arab boys leading our camels, checking their cellphones every 2 minutes. I remember discussions about intermarriage that brought some to tears. I remember a beautiful Shabbat service on a balcony overlooking Jerusalem. I remember an incredible sense of gratitude to the people who made the gift of birthright israel possible for me – it changed my life.

What do you remember?

Jacob Shwirtz, the tireless head of the BRI Alumni Association in Israel (among other things), announced that a full-length documentary movie is being produced for Israeli TV about Taglit-birthright israel. Jacob is looking for people with cool, funny, quirky, inspirational,or interesting stories to share in the film. Mildly interesting might work, too. They’d like to see the whole spectrum of alumni activities in Israel (work, school, army, volunteering, etc.). If you live in Israel and have stories to tell, please email him a short overview to share with the director at Jacob@JacobShwirtz.com.

That’s right…posts are beginning to go up…undoubtedly as a result of the stellar and groundshaking blogging panel that was held on Sunday…

Jewnification Project: Talk About an Ingathering of the Tribe, Jam is Not Just for Toast Anymore, and Shout-Out From JTB2

Critical Mastiff: Fun With Digital Photography, and review of the Tribe

DivaSteph: Photo montages and recaps

Were you at JTB2? Submit your recap posts or trackback to this post…more to come!

Henna was a hit this conference, with most of us choosing to temporarily tint our skin in various orange-brown patterns, some with glitter, that will last us for the next ten days or so.

Pictured below is Jaclyn, Hillel mainstay and all-around energetic personage, who is also responsible for doing a henna good job on my left hand (at left). Jaclyn’s own hand (right), sports a design that I believe was of her own creation. Or at least she did it herself. In either case, she did a Jewlicious job.

It’s no secret, and no coincidence that Jews have historically been at the forefront many important movements of proactive social change. We know that in such movements as socialism, the women’s movement, civil rights and environmentalism, 20th and 21st century American Jews have found the fire in their bellies and have been disproportionately represented in both leadership and participation.

Why?

Among many other factors, I believe it is something to do with a deep internalization of the concept of Tikkun Olam, fixing the world, that has resonated across generations and affiliations that has allowed us as a people to find the strength with which to fight the good fight.

I was honored to attend a panel called “jewish activists and why they don’t just chill” yesterday. The first was Eli Winkelman – the cute redhead in the photo. She founded Challah for Hunger at Scripps College. Through baking and selling Challah to college students she and her crew have raised both awareness and several thousand dollars to help stop the genocide in the Sudan. Bake on.

Next was Aaron Cohen. Once the executive director for the music festival Lollapalooza, band manager for Jane’s Addiction and other music related professions, Aaron now works freeing slaves. His work and his story are truly awe inspiring and there’s no way I can do it justice in a few lines.

In a nutshell he was studying Torah one day and came across the concept of a Jubilee Year, the year we free slaves, release property and let the land rest. This inspired him to such a degree that he created The Jubilee Foundation and with the assistance of Perry Farrel began a series of big-name concerts to which called upon wealthy nations to forgive Third World debt as part of the Jubilee year. This quickly turned into partnerships both the Vatican and the State department and now Aaron works actively, often under cover in third world nations to help end slavery.

While I knew a little about the problem, but the problem is wider and my pervasive than I ever cared to imagine.

Here’s a snipet

There are child sex slaves very near where you live. It goes on in every nation on this planet. Every night, little girls (and little boys) lead anonymous men down darkened hallways. The situation is now pandemic. There are estimated to be 30,000,000 slaves worldwide–more slaves today than at any other time in human history. Forced prostitution makes up between 50 and 60% of that group, many of them as young as seven and eight years old. As a money-making enterprise, the slavery business has never been more lucrative. It is a multi-billion dollar industry. In fact, it is the number two illegal enterprise in the world, nestled between drugs (number one) and arms (number three). According to US Ex-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, within ten years, trafficking and human slavery will be the biggest illegal businesses in the world, overtaking drugs.

Kol ha Kavod to Aaron Cohen in the mamish biggest way. There are no words to express my awe at the work he is doing. It was an honor of honors to have him at the conference.

Here’s an article about him for further reading: link.

Last but certainly not least was singer song writer, activist, mother and all around awesome chick Sarah Nadav. When you walk the streets of Jerusalem you’ll notice on almost every street big bins for plastic bottle recycling. That’s Sarah’s doing. She and several friends saw that while many Israelis are connected to the concept of the sacredness of the land, there is a consciousness missing about protecting it. They went about picking an achievable goal – plastic bottle recycling and ran with it. Staging light hearted protests like sending gift baskets in plastic bottle to Sanitation departments heads for Purim, and building a Succah out of plastic bottles they got the word out and achieved incredible success. Jerusalem is a cleaner, better place because of the work Sarah was a part of, and I for one have great respect and appreciation of that.

To all of our panelists – thank you.

Aw man. That was an awesome show. The Makkabees opened with their unique brand of heavy metal renditions of Jewish classics – Shabbat Shalom, Mashiach, Oseh Shalom etc. and yes – a horah mosh pit broke out. Totally insane – totally fun. Next up was Rabbi Yonah and Shankbone. Highlights included their very original rendition of By The Rivers of Babylon. Good times, good times.

This was followed by a fashion show by Evey Rothstein and her Harajuku inspired label Glamorous Rebel. The show was very fashion forward featuring taffetta skirts, high tops, eighties inspired hair and makeup – kawaii!

Next up was crowd favorite Rav Shmuel. He rocked out with some covers (a unique combo of the Beatles Hey Jude and the Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated) and a collection of original compositions. Rav Shumuel used to tour with Phish, and you might recognize him from NYC open mic nights or Mike’s Place in Jerusalem.

Finally, the show concluded with a dynamic rendition of Yiddish and Klezmer tinged hip hop by SoCalled

Laya wishes to add: included SoCalled’s performance was the group Beyond the Pale, and the Gospel singer Doris Glaspie, who rocked our socks. We were also honored to hear the first ever SoCalled/Esther Kustanowitz collaboration with a fascinating rendition of “9:45″, the announced time of bus departure to the beach the following morning.

Here’s SoCalled on my IDF laptop. So much for your hipster cred mon ami!

Rabbi Leibush from Montreal’s Ghetto Shul playing the saxomophone Saturday night.
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I have so much to write and so many photos to put up but apparently I am leading a session on blogging – what the hell do I know from blogging? Anyhow, I am going to have to dash but for now enjoy this photo of Matisyahu in a Jewlicious hoodie. Pretty sweet, huh? He spent shabat and Sunday with us. He’s totally chill. I know… this post is pretty lame. I’ll do better later. Maybe.

Later: OK, as esther pointed out, this was a pretty lame post. So what does one do with a lame post? Improve it by adding a cute baby picture! I mean you’d have to be pretty heartless not to be moved by a cute baby picture!

And we’re not talking about just any baby here – this is Laivy Yitzhak – or as we like to call him MiniYahu*, Matisyahu’s infant son. Isn’t he cute? He’s been having an awesome time chillin out with the Jews at Jewlicious @ the Beach.2. Now this has turned into quite the post? Eh? What do you say now Esther, Miss big shot New York writer chick. What do you have to say now?

*The name MiniYahu was coined by Laya. Just so you know.

Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, created a doll. She was blonde, thin and (because she was based on a German sex doll named “Lilli”) was, um, in some ways, mightily and unrealistically endowed. (Her male counterpart, Ken, however, was denied his, um, endowment.) The doll, named Barbara Millicent Roberts, became known as Barbie and would hold many jobs in her time, rising as far as becoming “Presidential Candidate Barbie…’ (Always a presidential candidate, never a president…I know how she feels.)

Here at the JTB2 conference, we just finished a screening of “The Tribe,” a film by Tiffany Shlain and her husband Ken that examines Jewish identity through the lens of Barbie–emanating from the fact that a Jewish daughter of immigrants created the ultimate beauty icon/idol that would become the bane of woman’s existence an impossible model for beauty.

The film was clearly a hit with the JTB2 participants, who stayed through a Q & A that got deep into issues of filmmaking, assimilation, insiders and outsiders, and the Barbie-as-metaphor conceit, and ultimately culminated in a rescreening of the film for those who had either missed it the first time, or who wanted to sit through another viewing with the benefit of the Q&A fresh in their minds.

Shlain, who just presented the film at Sundance, explained that the film was made in the hope that it would be a trigger for discussion, and that there’s a kit (available through the website) that includes a “Guide From the Perplexed” that provides a structure for such conversation.

No Barbies were hurt during the making of this film, says a disclaimer at the film’s end. And this reviewer’s only comment is: “Darn.”

Now there is a demonization of the Muslim community, so we have to speak up to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening. — Taji Mustafa, a spokesman for the Muslim Action Committee.

Whose playing the holocaust card now, eh?

Muslims gathered in Trafalgar square Saturday to show even more outrage over the cartoon images. Here’s another great quote from a participant, one Younas Yousas:

Their freedom of speech should be restricted because it hurts our religion. At the end of the day everyone needs to respect others’ religions. And we should strive for peace.

Classic. Last two quotes, both seen on placards at the demonstration:

Europe, you will pay. Your 9/11 is on its way.

and a less poetic:

Behead the one who insults the prophet.

Thanks Jpost for giving Muffti a chuckle.

Calm. Yes – as reflected in the carefree smiles of Esther and Laya, modelling their sweet Jewlicious @ the Beach t-shirts and hoodies by American Apparel. Did I say calm? Heh – it’s a friggin mad house! Things here are actually pretty organized but with less than half an hour before shabat, things are somewhat insane. Everyone’s running around getting last minute stuff done and all that. Standard pre-shabat craziness except this time it’s in preparation for over 200 people. Crazy man. Have a good shabat y’all!

Oxford University, the institution that educated such venerable figures as William of Ockham, Arnold J. Toynbee, Christopher Wren, Thomas More, Stephen Hawking, H. L. A. Hart, T. S. Eliot and many others, is holding “Israeli Apartheid week.” The Oxford Palestinian Union are promoting the event as the “30th anniversary of the international convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid.”

The conference boasts speakers such as Ilan Pappe from Haifa University and Gabi Piterberg of UCLA as well as films such as “Arna’s Children”. It turns out that the group is not an official university group and thus ran into some potential friction from the university for using Oxford’s name in the title of the conference and the flyers.

What did the Jews on campus do? Well, they went to the dean to try and have the university lay sanctions against the conference, citing the potential for provocation. The proctor replied:

A number of events are being held by an unofficial student society this week. The proctors have considered the complaints, from students and others, in the context of the University’s Code of Practice on the Freedom of Speech, which allows the free expression of opinions within the law, and have seen no evidence that there has been a breach of the code…the situation will be kept under review. The proctors are also taking steps to promote dialogue between the student societies so as to encourage mutual understanding and forbearance.

No doubt that last bit will involve some tea and crumpets. Adrienne Rivlin, ex president of the Jewish Student Union, claimed:

Given the current political climate, it’s deeply concerning that the Palestinian Society should choose such an inflammatory title, designed to be provocative and reinforce preconceived prejudices, rather than trying to build bridges and foment dialogue. Israeli and Jewish students on campus unfortunately can only feel intimidated by their actions

Ah, a little Abe Foxman in training that Rivlin is.

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, media spokesman for the Palestinian Society, said,

We are simply stating our belief and explaining that Israel is an apartheid state, to encourage people to take a stance and increase public pressure on Israel to change its apartheid policies.

Ah, a little Saeb Erekat in training that Tarkiti is.

Thanks to Jpost.

A spokesman for Islam-Archiv-Deutschland Central Institute, the oldest Muslim body in Germany, dedicated to preserving the community’s archives since the eighteenth century and fostering relations between Muslims and other religions, has an interesting challenge for Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Basically, they are daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp. “In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the courage,” a spokesman for the Muslim organization told the German Catholic press agency KNA.

By denying the Holocaust, Ahmadinejad not only denigrated the Jewish victims of the genocide but also the 200,000 Roms and Arabs murdered in the “gypsy camp” of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps, the institute spokesman said. The fact that the president of an Islamic state repeated Nazi anti-Semitism was harmful to the image of Islam and “a disgrace for all the world’s Muslims”, he added.

The institute, founded in 1927, is the oldest Muslim body in Germany.

I would also invite President Ahmadinejad to deny the existence of the Holocaust in my presence. Such a move would indeed be brave, some might say foolhardy, especially since I may in all likelihood respond rather, uh… forcefully. With my boot. To his posterior region. Is it just me or is all this Muslim Holocaust denial cartoon shit just getting a little too… stupid to the point of being surreal?

Thanks to Jewlicious reader Adam S. for the tip.

If you heard Serge Gainsbourg in your head while reading that headline, then congratulations, you are a world pop-culture aficionado. But more importantly, if you’re looking for some wakka wakka humor, click here to check out holyvirals.com, the people who brought you the above image.

Jewbilation Concert & Fashion Show
Sunday, February 19, 7:30pm
Free to Jewlicious @ the Beach conference participants
$10 all others

The vast range of musical guests in the Jewbilation line-up proves that Jewish music is better — and more eclectic — than you think.

From hip hop and gospel to klezmer, jam band and heavy metal, Jewbilation promises some of the freshest and funkiest bands you never heard of (we’re cutting-edge like that.) Performers include DJ Socalled, Makkabees, Beyond The Pale, Rav Shmuel, Couch DJ, and Rabbi Yonah & Shankbone.

As if that wasn’t enough, Jewbilation hosts a hip fashion show featuring up-and-coming Jewish fashion icon Evey Rothstein of Glamorous Rebel designs.

Be a part of the Jewbilation concert and fashion show. This, too, is good for the Jews.

In what is certain to be the first of (hopefully) many articles about the JTB2 conference, the Long Beach Press-Telegram is the first one on board:

A Jewish Music Revolution

Will we see Jew there?

In order to have the Student Authority pay for the second degree that I am currently pursuing, I need to go to a lawyer/notary and declare that I never received a second degree previously. Sounds simple, huh? After explaining 3 times what I needed, the lawyer/notary said that her typist was out for the day and I’d have to come back tomorrow. As she walked me to the door I asked, “Ok, but how much would it cost?”

She: :::waves her hand::: Come back tomorrow…
Me: Ok, but how much will it cost?
Her: Not much.
Me: Ok, but how much is not much?
She: We shall get along.
Me: Can you just give me a price? How much?
She: Just come back tomorrow.

Me: …sigh…

So, CK and Laya are trapped in New York under a blanket of 17 feet of snow, so I’m taking over the Jewlicous Conference! Now, every panel will be about dating, New York, and getting along with other Jews! (Muah haha hahahahah!)

Just kidding. CK and Laya, G-d willing, will be flying out a little late, but still in time for the conference this weekend…

In the interim, allow me to present a photo of San Francisco, where there is no blizzard, nor–amazingly–is there any fog.

ed. note : somhow this post got deleted, we recovered the post, but lost the comments. Sorry to those, and please repost.

Behold, a bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlements in Palestine from the 1930s. Or is it? Me thinks it might just be a thinly veiled marketing attempt by Honigman, Fox, Golf, and other Israeli fashion retailers.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Dizengoff Center is the sun?

I don’t know why it surprises me so much to see Dizengoff Center on a Zionist poster from the 30’s. I mean, check out the chic tall black boots and hoochie short shorts – plus the Fendi baguette bag…bitch musta been shopping somewhere.