HEY JEWS

Yeah, don't do it. Where a crown or something.

Wear.

Dont do it

dont

did you do it

i just wore the dashiki, which is really a nice piece of clothing that's very colorful. i didn't wear the hat or anything which felt a little over the top and maybe tipped the scale into minstrelsy.

http://www.complex.com/style/2013/08/clothes-white-people-shouldnt-wear/dashiki

obv wearing any outfit of another culture as a costume is complex (punz, lol) tho hopefully this wasn't too offensive to anyone :/

fwiw, I saw a (non-blackface) rasta dude at the purim party I went to, fake dreads, some kind of colorful shirt, etc. It didn't really register as minstrelsy to me since there are already so many white reggae dudes with dreads, but IDK.

yeah, i wouldn't have done fake dreads and like i said i thought the hat was too much, but idk, u know i love western african culture and music and so i hope my wearing the dashiki was more respectful than just drunken college student going lol?

don't worry, i'll make sure to pick up a keffiyah for next year

(jk, next year we plan to do a family costume as adventure time characters)

shakey mo, my DC shul shopping (which is rather lol for a non-Jew) led me to a Reconstructionist synagogue, where I will/would totally go if/when I were to actually convert. I go to High Holy Day services there and it is awesome and reconstructionism is a good fit for a not-feeling-the-personal-god-thing person such as myself.

and the music is so much better than at Reform temples. Sorry, Reformers!

not sure how i feel about this but seeing jay leno on their front page puts me further into the "fuck off" ledger though.
http://nicejewishguys.net/

If I join a synagogue I want it to have a really good cantor, which is hardest to find in reform temples for whatever reason.

xp, yeah, generally a little sick of that kind of easy, corny, self-deprecating jewish humor schtick at this point in my life, but it's such a part of the culture, whaddyagonnado? As for whether it's actually offensive, I don't think so.

the twin sons of the cantor at the synagogue i went to when i was growing up became a briefly famous canadian boy band

Excellent!

Reform synagogues I have been to have had cantors who don't have the vocal power and passion of cantors in conservative synagogues; plus the reform ones have had Rabbis who strum acoustic guitars in a very insipid folk music kind of way. But alas, some of the conservative ones I have been to include participants who want to make the temple nearly Orthodox, which is not for me.

I guess I was lucky, the cantor I had at my reform temple growing up seemed (to me anyway) totally old school - sonorous, booming voice, all organ+vocal arrangements/no acoustic gtr.

I saw a kid dressed for Purim in my neighborhood on Sunday wearing sweatpants, basketball shorts, a hoodie, an Obama mask and a gigantic afro wig. :-\

Speaking of which: http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israelis-who-dressed-up-as-Ku-Klux-Klan-members-on-Purim-make-waves-on-Facebook-345846

The JPost's coverage is pretty weaksauce too -- "A tasteless brand of humor, or a clever display of satire?" No, it's fuck you.

secretly always resented the cantors b/c they would just sing x 5 everything the rabbi just said thereby lengthening the boring service.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201403191756-0023572

oh jesus

NAGL for the jews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWzK5mVuGzM

xpost My first reaction is that no way were Israelis stupid enough to dress as the KKK for Purim, but then I thought, yeah, pretty much everyone is stupid enough to do something that stupid.

Back in school we had to read transcripts of the original Klan meetings, and it's kind of amazing how many people showed up to join. Iirc, it's basically like:

"blah blah early Klan stuff"

(guy raises hand) "Can Jews join?"

"No. Blhal blah more Klan ..."

(another hand goes up)

"Can Catholics join?"

"No" And so on.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mitt-romney-corners-matzo-market

Bain Capitol buying Manischewitz

They should go heritage brand with it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/passover-with-a-strictly-biblical-flavor/2014/04/07/f6893c04-b531-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

How Karaite Jews celebrate Passover (I've never heard of them before)
excerpt:

The Torah’s Book of Exodus, Chapter 12, offers one description of the instructions for Passover fare: “The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: [Each household] shall eat [lamb] roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs” (Jewish Publication Society translation).

Remy Pessah of Mountain View, Calif., follows those words and long-standing family traditions each year at Passover time. Born in Egypt, the 66-year-old chemical engineer turned fiber artist was raised with Karaite Judaism. (“Karaite” is a form of the Hebrew word “karaim,” or “followers of Scripture.”) She joined the Karaite community in the San Francisco Bay area, which by some estimates includes more than 200 families. Pessah’s Seder table reflects this Jewish movement that takes its cues directly from the Tanach: the Torah, Prophets and additional texts known as Writings.

“Our Seder is pretty much different from the rabbinical Seders,” Pessah says. “The way we read the Haggadah, the preparation of the Haggadah, the whole atmosphere.”

It indeed differs, both in terms of the Haggadah, the book of readings that tells the Passover story and guides the Seder, and the meal. There are no Four Questions at a Karaite Seder. There is no fruity charoset and no wine — the latter is a fermented product. Instead, Pessah serves homemade grape juice.

The rabbinic Seders that Pessah referred to are what most observant American Jews know as the standard. Those Seders are based largely on the ancient rabbis’ redaction of the Tanach. That redaction is called the Oral Torah. The Karaites see the Oral Torah an interpretation rather than hard-and-fast rules. Some of the several thousand Karaites in the United States, especially those far from the Bay Area enclave, practice a mixture of Karaite and rabbinical traditions. The biggest Karaite community resides in Israel, and another pocket lives in Turkey.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/passover-seders-move-to-nights-that-work-for-busy-lives/2014/04/13/3eca9316-c106-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

No Karaite Jews quoted here. This is about how Passover's 8 nights, and you may as well do the seder on a night that works for everyone to get together (according to some).

We actually had a seder last night which is kind of ridiculous but that was what worked for my very secular in-laws.

It's that time again!!!!

Hey Jews I wrote a little passover ditty, sung to the chorus of "Eye of the Tiger":

It's the
Bread of affliction
It's the bread of the Jews
Risen bread--it's not kosher during Pe-sach
And my boss--says "be careful! It is con-sti-pa-ting"
I-don't-care-I-just-ate-sev-en sheeeeeeeeeets
Of the mat-zah

― quincie, Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:44 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loool

ooooh I need matzah crack recipe--the stuff with toffee and chocolate and nuts. Anyone?

i love that song

I need matzah crack recipe

hold on a sec let me ask my wife

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2008/01/chocolatecovere/

Via google, but have never made it.

here's the one we use
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-chocolate-caramel-matzo-brittle-recipes-from-the-kitchn-47589

Awesome, thanks!

I am seder-less this year, but I'm still gonna eat seven sheets of matzah, dammit!

happy passover, jews!

I am so going to make that matzah crack omg

Happy pesach y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4LSdALxpI

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/05/americas-only-ballpark-synagogue.html

everyone agreed that a gift-shop synagogue was better than no synagogue at all.

I guess so

http://www.drf.com/news/oy-gevalt-derby-winning-trainer-nice-jewish-boy

my bro just tweeted this:
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/05/29/an-open-letter-from-the-shondes/

They being dropped from the festival because of their support for the Boycott Israel BDS thing has gotten lots of media attention in DC, and they got a non-fest gig opening for DC punk band Priests instead.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-jewish-groups-a-stand-off-between-open-debate-and-support-of-israel/2014/05/28/409c397e-dab5-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html

Caught this on a plane and it was frequently hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCNw8gNCtng

kinda take umbrage at the suggestion that 20th c humor is Jewish humor

idk who that guy is that made that claim tbh