Jesus Saves, Weinsteins Capitalize.
The brothers Weinstein, formerly of Miramax Entertainment, are soon opening up a “Faith Based” (aka Christian, because other religions clearly have no faith) distribution label and are signing a first-look production deal with…
Iranian Holocaust Conference is a Go!
As John noted on his new blog nunbet.net, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has clearly seen and been influenced by the Borat film. Note the similiarity between Ahmadinejad’s pose pictured here and Borat’s Jew…
Tori Spelling’s PR: May induce vomitting…
Tori Spelling is in the news today! You may remember her as Donna Martin on Beverly Hills 90210, or as Alex Monday on Scary Movie 2, or from a whole slew of otherwise…
So. So. Very. Wrong.
So uh… what happens when you combine 2 scantily clad faux-lesbian Russki pop-tarts, with a uhm… Orthodox Jewish boys choir? Something that can only be described as wrong. So very, very wrong.
I Hate Borat
Last night I had the misfortune of going to see Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film Borat – Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The movie opened here in…
Israel’s Most Popular Ambassadors do it again
You might remember Tasha and Dishka – they’re the two women from Ramle, Israel who created the 4th most watched video on YouTube. With 11,209,323 views and 8282 comments, they remain Israel’s most…
Who do English Jews want to Date?
I ask this question in light of recent survey results of Jews in the UK who were asked which celebrity Jew they would most like to go on a date with. Jewish English…
Seinfeld: The Lost Episode, featuring Michael Richards (Kramer)
The good folks at National Lampoon have unearthed a lost episode of Seinfeld. Featuring the whacky antics of Michael Richards (Kramer), the episode is a take-off-collage thing, inspired by Richards’ recent racist rantings…
George W. Bush Center For Freedom (and Kids Who Can’t Read Good…)
Haaretz reports that President GW Bush gave the ok for a center to be built in Israel in his name: President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a…
Spontaneous Art — L.A. Style
Activist Jews on Hollywood Boulevard, when confronted with the literal footsteps of anti-Semitism, have little choice but to react. Why’d we do it? For fledgling magazines and media moguls…for every little Jewish baby…
“Dai (enough)”
Iris Bahr’s one-woman show, “Dai (enough)” , now playing at the Culture Project in NYC, is rather shocking. After walking around the Village, seeing more hipsters in keffiyehs than ever before, it’s bizarre…
Borat Was Boring…
…[pause]…NOT! The one thing that everyone can agree on is that this film is never boring. The national consensus is that it’s too short–but I felt it was a fine length, because some…
Put the Social Back in Jewish Social Action Month (Revised!!!)
Volunteering is totally hot. This month has lots of volunteering options so that anyone can get their hot social action on–just check out JSAMNY (don’t try to pronounce the acronym–it’s “Jewish Social Action…
Just When You Thought the Web Couldn’t Get Any Jewier…
As if Jewlicious and Jewschool weren’t enough, the word Jew keeps popping up in websites. And we’re not talking about all our racist friends over at websites that have won the “Hate Site…
Hanukkah Gift Ideas
Looking for the perfect unorthodox Hanukkah gift? Forget Tefillin Barbie. There’s only one of her and the feverish bidding on eBay has already hit the stratospheric price of $71. You could get these…
Good Work Nathan Shaked
From the Desert Sun: A competitor from Tel Aviv, Israel, Nathan Shaked, 37, is the new Mr. Gay International after two days of competition in Palm Springs. Prizes include a modeling contract, a…
Temple – The hot new hipster hangout!
Follow me here. The Burg is an online sitcom about a group of hipsters who live in Williamsburg. It’s kind of like a Hipster friends, or as Gawker put it “like Rent, only…
“Jews are Jesus’ children…”
Borat tries to adopt a dog from an American kennel. He hopes to use it to hunt Jews and for “sexytime.” When it’s old he will eat it. The clip above is a…
Indie Minyan Barbie?
Jen Taylor Friedman, famous for being the first (only?) female sofferet (or scribe – trained to inscribe mezuzahs and Torahs etc. which have to be written by hand) had some extra time on…
My Name is Anne Frank Rachel Corrie
As If! “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” opened off-off-Broadway yesterday at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York. The one woman play, starring the very blond and wholesome looking Megan Dodds, is compiled…
“Whores in my head…”
Introducing Israel’s most popular ambassadors Meet Lital “Tasha” Mizel and Adi “Dishka” Frimmerman. These two young ladies live in Ramle, Israel and thanks to a video they put together in Tasha’s bedroom, are…
A Jewish Movie and an Arab Film Festival walk into a bar…
51 Birch Street, the story of a Jewish family who bought into the suburban American dream as told after the mother’s death is getting critical acclaim around the globe. In addition to being…
Independent Minyans: Not Just for Dirty Hippies Anymore!
The title of this post is admittedly a little disengenuous. I guess the idea of an independent minyan being associated with dirty hippies exists because many of the first such minyans were Carlebach…
“In Vino Veritas” L&O Ep is “Fiction” and “Not About Mel”
A celebrity spews religious epithets after being pulled over by police for drunken driving. Ring any bells? Not so fast… In another example of “ripped from the headlines” followed by “don’t worry, it’s…
Channeling Abbie Hoffman
Feeling the need for more Abbie Hoffman activism. More humor and less sorrow. More joy, and less anger. Abbie, how is Olam ha ba? Should we be trying to levitate something? Some Abbieisms…
The Season of Judaitude… Holidayopolis… Jewtopia? Plus, a CONTEST!
Hi, and welcome to the portion of our calendar year wherein every day’s either a holiday or a “recovery day” from a holiday. Does it feel a lot like Tuesday? That’s because this…
