Comments on: The Jewish Identity Film Fest http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/ It's a Jewish Blog! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-678904 Sarah Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:32:18 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-678904 Ramon, I can try to find out for you. Ramon, I can try to find out for you.

]]> By: ramon marcos http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-678214 ramon marcos Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:14:54 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-678214 I may be an idiot but I still say Essen was a cool town. On a related note, about seven years traipsing around East Berlin I came across an old historic Synagogue in a decidedly Jewish neighborhood. In my travels through Europe and Scandanavia I always made a point of visiting the city's Synagogue... this one, being in East Berlin at a time when the post-wall artistic and cultural resurgence was really starting to ramp up, was a special treat. I went into a nearby Jewish restaurant, found a young man who spoke English and started asking him questions about the Shul and if it were possible to enter. I was met with the typical and justifiable distrust and showed him my passport. Satisfied (with the name) he explained the Synagogue was only opened for High Holiday services. After reading about the newly restored Synagogue in East Berlin I couldn't help but remember that and wonder if it was the same place. I do remember it being just a few streets from a huge squatters' community/park. I may be an idiot but I still say Essen was a cool town.

On a related note, about seven years traipsing around East Berlin I came across an old historic Synagogue in a decidedly Jewish neighborhood. In my travels through Europe and Scandanavia I always made a point of visiting the city’s Synagogue… this one, being in East Berlin at a time when the post-wall artistic and cultural resurgence was really starting to ramp up, was a special treat. I went into a nearby Jewish restaurant, found a young man who spoke English and started asking him questions about the Shul and if it were possible to enter. I was met with the typical and justifiable distrust and showed him my passport. Satisfied (with the name) he explained the Synagogue was only opened for High Holiday services.

After reading about the newly restored Synagogue in East Berlin I couldn’t help but remember that and wonder if it was the same place. I do remember it being just a few streets from a huge squatters’ community/park.

]]> By: anti-intermarriage http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-678205 anti-intermarriage Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:49:53 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-678205 There are actually Jews who care about intermarriage because we don't want Jews to become extinct. You obviously don't care if that happens since you're probably not a Jew. You're an idiot! There are actually Jews who care about intermarriage because we don’t want Jews to become extinct. You obviously don’t care if that happens since you’re probably not a Jew. You’re an idiot!

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677514 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:52:03 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677514 My first NY hipster encounter was when I was seeking a sublet in Brooklyn for the summer. I'd eventually found a place in Willi that sounded ok. Three days prior to my arrival, the guy I was going to get the sublet from emailed he'd rather I'd find a different place. He made me understand his roommate was afraid of a stranger in the apartment, particularly since I'd stated that in return for covering his share of the rent, I was expecting to have access to his share of the apartment, too. I then found something else - and ended up in a house that I've seen in three hiphop videos since. My first NY hipster encounter was when I was seeking a sublet in Brooklyn for the summer. I’d eventually found a place in Willi that sounded ok. Three days prior to my arrival, the guy I was going to get the sublet from emailed he’d rather I’d find a different place. He made me understand his roommate was afraid of a stranger in the apartment, particularly since I’d stated that in return for covering his share of the rent, I was expecting to have access to his share of the apartment, too. I then found something else – and ended up in a house that I’ve seen in three hiphop videos since.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677473 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:16:41 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677473 Essen hosted the LoveParade Saturday before last. Essen hosted the LoveParade Saturday before last.

]]> By: ramon marcos http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677469 ramon marcos Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:56:42 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677469 Essen is a hip town. Not kidding. Even they say so. But hip more in that New Order kind of way. (At least a decade ago.) Make sure you take the short drive up there after you hit Dusseldorf. And it's sister city is Tel Aviv. Essen is a hip town. Not kidding. Even they say so. But hip more in that New Order kind of way. (At least a decade ago.) Make sure you take the short drive up there after you hit Dusseldorf. And it’s sister city is Tel Aviv.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677426 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:32:20 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677426 Gogol Bordello was on Austrian music TV (go TV) a couple of weeks ago. I'll try to gather you a list of German "hipster" bands. Gogol Bordello was on Austrian music TV (go TV) a couple of weeks ago. I’ll try to gather you a list of German “hipster” bands.

]]> By: ck http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677420 ck Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:15:20 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677420 Oh you Jews. You're the same everywhere! Oh wait. Was that comment actually relevant to this post? Are Jews the same everywhere? Is there something substantive that manifests itself on a daily basis that makes us distinctive regardless of our geographical location? As for German hipsterdom, I am already packing all my Morissey, Cure and Ladytron CDs! I am also gonna throw in some YidCore, Golem, Gogol Bordello, missFlag and Carsitters. Düsseldorf won't know what hit it! Heh... Oh you Jews. You’re the same everywhere!

Oh wait. Was that comment actually relevant to this post? Are Jews the same everywhere? Is there something substantive that manifests itself on a daily basis that makes us distinctive regardless of our geographical location?

As for German hipsterdom, I am already packing all my Morissey, Cure and Ladytron CDs! I am also gonna throw in some YidCore, Golem, Gogol Bordello, missFlag and Carsitters. Düsseldorf won’t know what hit it! Heh…

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677403 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:42:12 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677403 Let me know, and you may get to meet this snobby capitalist Marxist ;) Let me know, and you may get to meet this snobby capitalist Marxist ;)

]]> By: ck http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677401 ck Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:36:31 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677401 That's it! Penelope? Book me a flight to Düsseldorf schnell!! I'm gonna be a German hipster! That’s it! Penelope? Book me a flight to Düsseldorf schnell!! I’m gonna be a German hipster!

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677400 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:30:02 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677400 Hmmmm, there are some people in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich that could be called hipsters for that is what they aim to be (and they generally are pretty full of themselves). In Cologne, the most metropolitan and open-minded city over here (which seriously never sleeps), you can find people in similar attire but those generally are way more open-minded. The names generally reflect what kind of first names were in fashion when they wear born, e.g. Scandinavian (Torben, Malte, Niklas, Mika,...), Russian (Nadyeshda, Boris,...) etc. We don't have Kabbala-water here (yet?), but with a name like Yankele, Shlomo etc. you could be right ahead of fashion. Hmmmm, there are some people in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich that could be called hipsters for that is what they aim to be (and they generally are pretty full of themselves). In Cologne, the most metropolitan and open-minded city over here (which seriously never sleeps), you can find people in similar attire but those generally are way more open-minded. The names generally reflect what kind of first names were in fashion when they wear born, e.g. Scandinavian (Torben, Malte, Niklas, Mika,…), Russian (Nadyeshda, Boris,…) etc. We don’t have Kabbala-water here (yet?), but with a name like Yankele, Shlomo etc. you could be right ahead of fashion.

]]> By: ck http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677391 ck Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:13:34 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677391 Sarah: Do they have hipsters in Germany? Are they called Gunther or Tomasz? If I were a German hipster 'd want a really provocative hipster name. Something like... Yankele :) Sarah: Do they have hipsters in Germany? Are they called Gunther or Tomasz? If I were a German hipster ‘d want a really provocative hipster name. Something like… Yankele

:)

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677367 Sarah Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:41:09 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677367 The 'Made' episodes are hysterical. Thanks for sharing. The ‘Made’ episodes are hysterical. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Giyoret http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/09/the-jewish-identity-film-fest/#comment-677110 Giyoret Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:03:43 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3753#comment-677110 Don't apologize for posting clips--they can be fun. But whoa, those are some mighty unconvincing Italians there. And is it just me, or does it seem that even a Mr. White Bread from Iowa could have rehashed a bunch of TV stereotypes and put this together? It didn't feel like there was real insight, nothing subtle, some hackneyed phrases and attitudes used as cultural shortcuts to anchor the "story". I don't like to criticize, because I think people should be creative and make the world a better place :) but that's the reaction I had. (I don't even know that people would expend all this energy about intermarriage anymore--people seem to just shrug it off.) On a similar note, I'm off to see David and Layla tonight. I am very interested in how realistic they can make it seem for a NY Jew to be converting to Islam for his bride... I kinda like those conversion stories *wink* Don’t apologize for posting clips–they can be fun. But whoa, those are some mighty unconvincing Italians there. And is it just me, or does it seem that even a Mr. White Bread from Iowa could have rehashed a bunch of TV stereotypes and put this together? It didn’t feel like there was real insight, nothing subtle, some hackneyed phrases and attitudes used as cultural shortcuts to anchor the “story”. I don’t like to criticize, because I think people should be creative and make the world a better place :) but that’s the reaction I had. (I don’t even know that people would expend all this energy about intermarriage anymore–people seem to just shrug it off.)

On a similar note, I’m off to see David and Layla tonight. I am very interested in how realistic they can make it seem for a NY Jew to be converting to Islam for his bride…

I kinda like those conversion stories *wink*

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