HEY JEWS

I'm not even Jewish but I am fighting my knee-jerk response that she is Making Jews Look Bad so she should Knock It the Fuck Off.

^^^which response itself may be antisemetic, yes? I srsly struggle with that.

See also my feelings about David Brooks.

quincie, I am fighting my "girl, lay off the heavy makeup/self tanner" response because I don't really want the discussion about a female politician to be primarily about her looks. But on the other hand, oh honey, no.

It isn't her looks that are getting me defensive; it is the Web site as a whole! Her picture could be totally absent; it would have me cringing at the same level. You could even obliterate the pink and replace her with a dude and blue--I will still be all "please do not bring the Jews into this."

it has been my experience that kids who move away from frum (esp chassidic brooklyn) world to secular world tend to gravitate towards low culture stuff - popular radio, reality shows, kinda tacky clothing, etc. i'm sure there's some way to unpack this re performance of class + accessibility (gateway to classier stuff requires education, acculturation, etc that frum community doesn't provide). i'm making big generalizations obv, but i remember frum kids getting into hard drugs, serious drinking problems, etc while "bad" modern orthodox kids idk go to business school or show up to class stoned.

how do these kids reconcile "I are Orthodox" vs. their electoral Web sites?

http://www.kveller.com/blog/parenting/aly-raisman-our-golden-jewish-gymnast/

awww, nice.

idk if this interests anyone here but my review of Stromberg's new Jewish Images in Comics:
http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/160558/how-anti-semitic-comics-got-replaced/

nice article

have you ever been accused of arty-semitism

lol

this is getting posted by a bunch of my fb friends
http://www.yiddishcursesforrepublicanjews.com

^^^^ LOL, just came here to post that!

"May you be reunited in the world to come with your ancestors, who were all socialist garment workers."

is thread supposed to be sung to the tune of Hey Jude?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_response_to_The_Forty_Days_of_Musa_Dagh

unrelated: i made a shiva call tnite

Did not know of the book.

Sorry you had to make a shiva call

crazy book, right? i had never heard of it

we took a long car trip today and ended up playing a bunch of debbie friedman for the baby off of spotify. i decided to make a playlist of jewish music tonight (mostly friedman, carlebach, maybe brandwein, and some other stuff like yidcore, dylan, zorn) that would be good stuff + children friendly. then i discovered all of the super frum music that is now available on spotify from like avraham fried and mordechai ben david. so i made a playlist of a bunch of song that i remember from being in yeshiva. i wouldn't listen to the thing all the way through, but if you're curious about what some (mostly lakewood/litvak) super religious jewish ppl listen to: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/3ZpWfyOgKpYrjHElizIcOD

most (but not all) of this stuff has a primary life being played at religious weddings (and actually one heuristic for how good a new single is is how good it is to dance to it at a wedding -- eg Avraham Fried albums The Greatest Wedding Album Vols. 1 + 2). "Just One Shabbos," "Shabbos in Gilo," "The One" and "Not For Sale" are all in English. ("Not For Sale" is MBD's protest song about protecting Israel from iirc Mormon missionaries!) The "Shiru Lamelech" song is a copella bc Lev Tahor is one of a dozen bands that make music for religious Jews to listen to during the sefirah - a period of the year when they refrain from listening to instrumental music bc they are mourning the destruction of the temple.

only other notable song is Oif Simches "dor mitzuyan" ("an excellent generation") that is taken from lyrics by aviv geffen on the really gorgeous "Achshav Me'oonan" when he sings "anachnu dor mezzuyan" ("we're a fucked up generation"). even tho the new lyrics are positive, the song still had a stigma from the original lyrics and it was kinda "bad boy" music (by yeshiva standards). anyway, i included aviv geffen version at the end of the playlist even tho it does not fit theme for comparison.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/139247/Rosh-Yeshiva-Pasuls-Witness-at-Chupah-Because-of-iPhone.html

google tells me about Israeli "kosher phones" and UK Orthodox Jewish ones(you can make calls but not text...because. Oy veh. read the link, not sure I agree, not that I expect logic)

http://www.theworld.org/2012/01/kosher-phones-orthodox-jews/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154153

x-post re
zorn) that would be good stuff + children friendly.

I thought John Zorn just made noisy free-jazz that I did not think of as child-friendly (although I know he embraces and emphasizes his Jewishness at times).

some of his more klezmer compositions are not so noisy jazz and more kid friendly- I can't think of good examples off hand but Masada stuff has some tracks I wanted to choose from

I played kid-friendly Jonathan Richman songs for my kid when he was young. Jonathan's Jewish although the songs might not be reflective of Askenazi or Sephardic Jewish musical elements

I kinda liked this book re Jewish culture:

The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Steven Lee Beeber

The ‘kosher phone,’ however, can be dialed without technically connecting thus avoiding Shabbat prohibitions.

wt eff does this even mean

i've heard that the circuit is always open iirc so that you just pick up the phone and it connects in case of emergencies? i don't really know or understand the technical details. those 'kosher' phones tho are not the same as the ones in the other links

i dunno where i was reading about kosher phone but i think in principle it is always doing the active part of the dialing process by itself without human intervention, and the way you dial a number is more of an interruption in activity than being actively active?

i'm not sure how it would work on a cell phone though. the image in my head was of a dude taking a rubber plunger and inserting it in an array of blinking lights in a timed sequence in order to key in the number.

i think you just lift the receiver. you don't press any buttons.

maybe it's oldtimey operators: "operator get me KLONDIKE 555"

curmudgeon, I read that book. I think the author was going for a verrrry broad definition of Jewish ("Italian-American girls from NY! They're practically Jewish!!")

He was, and I still enjoyed it and liked hearing him talk about it at a panel discussion.

my friend wrote this + it's really good
http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/162190/mayan-apocalypse-good-for-the-jews/

thats rad

yeah that is a nice piece

wasn't sure whether this would be a better fit for israel thread, but i think butler talking about her jewish education is much more interesting than her opinions about the matzif:

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/judith-butler-responds-to-attack-i-affirm-a-judaism-that-is-not-associated-with-state-violence.html

i got this email today:

http://www.chabad.org/mychabad/email/article_cdo/aid/1957247

As America finds itself in the throes of a highly contentious election season, Jews worldwide are gearing up for an "election" of a different sort: the Rosh Hashanah "Coronation" of the Almighty as King of the Universe (September 16-18).

By attending synagogue, offering up prayers, hearing the sounds of the Shofar and partaking of the holiday festivities, we will not only be "casting our votes" in favor of G‑d's renewed Sovereignty over the world and Providence over our lives, we will also be submitting our "petitions" that He inscribe us and our loved ones for a happy, healthy and sweet New Year.

lol

who is the opposition

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Suffering_and_Evil/satan.shtml maybe?

im voting nader

In the months leading up to the filter’s implementation, student publications revealed that YU Arevim, an anonymous student group of self-proclaimed pornography addicts, had been heavily invested in the issue. In an article published in The Commentator on December 9, 2011, Benjamin Abramowitz wrote that the YU Arevim approached the administration with the idea of a network-wide installation of Covenant Eyes – an effort to sidestep the idea of a filter while still allowing for some level of accountability online. The suggestion was shot down by RIETS faculty as being too “big brother.” Indeed, Rabbi Reiss insisted that under no circumstances would the new filtration system store information about individual users’ Internet viewing history.

http://www.yucommentator.org/2012/09/new-internet-filters-block-pornographic-content-in-dorms/

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/260188_10151149030049114_44017926_n.jpg

i like this one too

http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/wp-content/gallery/postcards/92-34-40_1.jpg

That is nice

are hey jews fasting yom kippur or probably not?

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/561815_341610702600005_418624447_n.jpg

dunno maybe. Probably going to go to Kol Nidre tomorrow night though because our cantor chanting it in her gorgeous soprano provides me with pretty much all the spiritual sustenance I need for a year.

I am being a bad non-Jew this year. Didn't get my act together to get tickets; probably not going to fast but what the hell, maybe I will? Seems dumb to fast without doing anything else to observe.

I would like to do the crumbs in the river thing. Name is escaping me at the moment. . . last year, when I took down my crumbs, someone had already been there with crumbs! This made me so happy. I felt, like, at one with a community, somehow.