HEY JEWS

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

It reminds me of those "Salt Explains World History" type books, you know, a grain of truth but take with a grain of, er, salt?

yeah I mean it's obvious that Jewish humor is HUGE in the culture of American comedy but... maybe it would be more accurate to delineate pre-60s and post-60s, cuz once Pryor is on the scene I mean gtfo

The guy who made it seems like kind of a dweeb (my favorite part of the doc is when Bob Einstein lays into him) but he gets a lot of interviews with a lot of funny comedians

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.

― quincie, Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:27 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh dang hold on which synagogue? are you going to Adat Shalom? b/c my parents were founding members and I was born into that congregation. I miss it a lot!

^^^yes! Adat Shalom!

wooo that's awesome

IDGI, why would you convert? save yourself time and money and get a nicer desk chair.

or some noise-cancelling headphones, those are good.

have I mentioned in this thread that I met my husband on JDate? HE IS NOT JEWISH BTW I mean I tried to marry in but was foiled.

wait, you're not jewish and you married a non-jew but you're looking for a shul? and you were both on jdate?!

quincie contains multitudes

I failed at keeping kosher, if that helps.

well looks like we'll be enrolling little V in the Sunday "Judaism School" offered by the Reconstructionist Temple I mentioned somewhere upthread (Or Shalom). I only know one other family there but their girls know V from our preschool co-op and I like them a lot so we'll see how it goes.

One odd thing that came up was that my wife was surprised that we have to pay membership fees to join the Temple. My wife grew up in a Catholic family (although she never attended church, catechism, etc.) and thought this stuff was free. I kinda assumed the Catholic Church is probably about the only religious institution that can afford to offer services for free, but I don't really know how it works with other churches. I figured everybody's gotta tithe/pay dues (how else would anything get paid for), this can't just be a Jewish thing right?

That had never occurred to me, but it makes sense. Synagogues are only loosely affiliated with central organizations (e.g. United Synagogue) and I don't think they are funded by them. I assume catholic churches get money from the big church.

the Catholic Church just owns so much shit, real estate, etc. but the vast majority of religious institutions aren't like that. most aren't even centralized the way the Church is.

I'm more surprised to hear that catholic churches provide free sunday school

I'm not sure they do tbh. I don't know any Catholic parents sending their kids, and asking people who grew up going to Catholic School isn't really helpful since when does a kid ever know what costs money.

baruch dayan emes, r' zalman schachter-shalomi passed away

i always heard that he used to study w/ shlomo carlebach when both were students of the Lubavitcher Rebbe at 770

temple we're considering joining hosted a talk from this guy, which I consider a positive sign:
http://images.cdn.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/138731086/max_h-1000+max_w-1000/JEWS!.jpg

now I gotta figure out how much $$$ we can actually afford to join oy

i always heard that he used to study w/ shlomo carlebach when both were students of the Lubavitcher Rebbe at 770

I knew he was old but I had no idea

never realized scheduling a wedding was so difficult. Shabbat + Daylight Savings Time = good luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQ1C5RJ2Vk#t=1655

If you've spent most of your time lately thinking about Israel/Palestine, this is a good thing to watch

happy jewish valentine's day!

great clip Hurting thx for posting

well I took Veronica to her first day of hebrew school at the reconstructionist temple ("don't let your child go shul-less!" lol). before class all the parents and kids and teachers sang some songs I probably haven't heard in 25 years, that was a trip.

yay

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/us/rabbis-find-talk-of-israel-and-gaza-a-sure-way-to-draw-congregants-wrath.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

only read the first two paragraphs but afaik they're not accurate - rabbi sharon's fight w/ her congregants goes beyond mentioning the names of dead civilians in prayer alongside israeli soldiers: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/182756/cbst

I don't see what's innacurate...? I guess some previous issues are glossed over, but the general sequence of events seems the same in both articles

w/out the background is makes the resignation seem incredibly petty

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wtf is this:
http://www.thekitchensf.org/mission/

Welp, just booked a getaway for Rosh Hashanah because I couldn't get two days over the weekend, and now I feel guilty about it. Every year I go through some variation on this pain.

would like to try out the family service at this temple we just joined but I uh already had a recording date booked so that is happening instead

ty, making me feel a little better

In another quandry, some are worrying about whether to get tickets for baseball postseason games that might happen (time tba) on Kol Nidre (friday oct. 3) and Yom Kippur Saturday October 4th and/or whether to check the scores or watch on tv etc (and will any Jewish players sit out such games)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/whats-a-faithful-jew-to-do-the-yom-kippur-baseball-dilemma/2014/09/18/c3319b7a-3f5c-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/09/18/choosing-shul-over-nats-park-on-yom-kippur/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/09/18/choosing-nats-park-over-shul-on-yom-kippur/

lol i feel like they run those articles every year

here's a local philly interest version from a few years ago:
http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-07/news/30253608_1_yom-kippur-sundown-kol-nidre

at least since Sandy Koufax's day

xp

it's a perennial, alongside article, 'can you believe jews live in Y?'

and 'yiddish is dying' which i just saw an article about this week and i lol'd
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/yiddish-has-a-problem/379658/

Yeah, seems like one of those "What do vegetarians eat on Thanksgiving?" type stories.

I'm not sure why or how mainstream religious or secular Jews in America would somehow also maintain a vital Yiddish-language culture; Yiddish was the Jewish vernacular of a time and place where Jews lived largely in isolated communities and its linguistic heyday in America was during a period of immigration. It's no surprise that it's now only a native language in insular Haredi communities.