HEY JEWS

hazon festival was great

i've never heard about this chag before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigd

but since cheshvon doesn't have any other holidays i think i'm going to start observing it

every time this pops up in my bookmarks i hear rita moreno yelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C797vkyV5hc

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/153792/brodner-thanksgiving

http://cdn1.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/JT-Final-1.jpg

Occurred to me for the first time ever to ask my dad if we're eligible for German citizenship through his dad, he didn't think so but we looked it up and we are. Now I really want to do it. Having an EU passport seems potentially useful, and I can't deny the emotional power of being somehow made whole in this way.

i think i've mentioned my ladino speaking friend before who really wanted to take advantage of spain's offer recently idk if she succeeded

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/

Anyone here have ancestors from the Bessarabia/Moldova area?

http://elitedaily.com/music/shake-it-off-hanukkah-best-parody/879262/

there's also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wi1H3UnKhk

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/artistic-director-fired-from-theater-j/2014/12/18/b6404b48-8712-11e4-abcf-5a3d7b3b20b8_story.html

Longtime theatre director at DC Jcc fired for controversial play choices

Sorry to say I didn't have to read it to guess what you meant by "controversial." Disappointing that the "big donors" or whatever still can't handle this kind of thing.

Yep. Ari Roth has a great rep in the theatre world.

Interstingly, the webpage for Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art redirects to an Air Jordan store.

Ha

my daughter learns about the parsha + stuff at school and she has recently been coming home w/ questions about hashem. like she asked me if hashem has a mouth and i tried to explain anthropomorphism to her, but she's 3 so it was tough. (well, hashem doesn't actually have a mouth, bc hashem isn't like us at all, but he kinda has a mouth like that's how we understand it -- D's expression slowly glazing over as i explain.) she also wanted to know when hashem sleeps and we explained that hashem is always awake but does rest on Shabbos but i think that confused her as well. i chap a ton of nachus when she comes home singing something she learned at school - like "hashem is here hashem is there hashem is truly everywhere" or "hashem gave us a present, do you know what it was, he gave us the torah, so we could do its laws," but i do wonder what the concept of "hashem" could possibly mean to a 3 year old.

"mommy" probably

i guess like adults aren't any better at apprehending the existence of god

Thursday night screening and concert as part of DC Jewish Film Fest

East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem

In 2013, Israeli-born folk singer David Broza crossed into the mainly Arab portion of the city of Jerusalem to record in 8 days an album with Israeli, Palestinian, and American musicians, including guitarist/producer Steve Earle. The process was filmed in and out of the studio and is the subject of the 80-minute movie East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem. The focus of the movie is on Broza’s enthusiastic effort to get Israelis and Palestinians together via song, but despite the nobility of his struggle, his well-meaning spoken and sung platitudes are less interesting here than the other musicians and the fascinating cityscape shots. In the studio, Palestinian singer Mira Awad’s vocal intonation and range is striking, and her description of how her beliefs and duet partner choices aggravate both Palestinians and Israelis conveys some of the impossibility of the situation there. Rapper Muhammad Mugrabi also shines. His wearied tales and the footage of his barbed-wire-topped, walled-in Shuafat Refugee Camp home region are heart-breaking. The film acknowledges extremists on both sides, but with the aid of Palestinian and Israeli youth singers who note the naivety of it, nevertheless figure singing in English the Elvis Costello-popularized song “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love & Understanding,” is a step in the right direction. Broza, Awad, and Earle will do a 45-minute musical set and Q&A after the screening. Feb. 26 at Sidney Harman Hall.

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-double-life-of-hasidic-atheists

x-post-- the q and a with Broza and Awad provided some additional insight re the movie. Plus, I didn't know they really haven't gotten the movie out there--NY, DC, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and a few other screenings. I'm still not a fan of Broza's music, and his uh hammy folk song delivery (but there were many folks in DC singing along in Hebrew with him), but I do respect that he did this project (despite boycott bds threats that kept some musicians from collaborating with him) and that he keeps bringing music to the Shuafat Refugee Camp

Although I'm not generally a fan of Broza, he was involved in creating Hakeves Hashisha Asar, which I believe is possibly *the* greatest children's record ever made in any language.

fwiw I find a lot of israeli rock/folk/pop singers to be hammy/overly earnest in that particular way. It's odd to me because it seems like the opposite of Israeli cultural attitudes otherwise.

Interesting. Broza sang a kids song last night. I just wanted more Mira Awad, and she mostly sat and only did a few songs. In the movie and in the q and a they kept saying that Israeli Hebrew is very direct, while Palestinian Arabic tends not to be direct and to instead maneuver in a circular yet strategic way, and how both of these aspects get interpreted in political and almost racist ways. I thought some of Broza's hammy ways were just kinda stereotypical folk singer ones-- "Hey audience, sing along with this one..."

Israeli singer/musician Idan Rachel does not seem hammy, but I think he's less of a star. I only saw him in a special collaboration with Malian Vieux Farka Toure

Idan Raichel is good. Arik Einstein (RIP) is also not hammy at all. But there seems to be a big contingent of vaguely spiritual, vaguely "world music", very sincere Israeli singer-songwriters who are prominent.

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-double-life-of-hasidic-atheists

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 February 2015 03:41 (4 days ago)

the hidden fedora beneath the shtreimel

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11021402_737693419837_6749085109262047544_o.jpg

too much time on ilx

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/only-some-people-are-jewish-2150

Hosting our first seder this year

I am going to a Seder at an Episcopal church.

I keep trying to be Jewish, and failing . See also: met husband on Jdate. Dude turns out not to be Jewish.

Now Seder at a church.

Oy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/man-seders-flow-with-steak-and-scotch-1427320586

Oy veh, Mad Men seders.

Meanwhile the working class folks making matza at the Streit factory on the lower east side in NYC will be be moving their place of business to a new locale soon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/century-old-nyc-matzo-factory-faces-a-high-tech-future/2015/03/30/84ced4a2-d69b-11e4-bf0b-f648b95a6488_story.html?tid=ptv_rellink

http://www.amazon.com/Everymans-Talmud-Major-Teachings-Rabbinic/dp/9562914356

This book just arrived in the mail. I am not Jewish but I have always wanted to read about the Talmud and a search on Amazon led me to this book. Has anyone read it?

like the new testament, the talmud is the thing we use to cover up the despotic iron age horrors of the hebrew bible, even though we go along with it just the same when push comes to shove.

a good read though. if you can stomach it.

^ someone who has never learnt any talmud

drek is about to get real in here

anyone ever had "spelt matza". kosher for Passover but a different grain

^ someone who has never learnt any talmud

― Mordy,

secular people learn life from life, mistakes etc. not an advice book on how and when to do things. sorry.

I can tell from yr posts that you literally know nothing about the Talmud

maybe stop embarrassing yourself and keep to things you actually know about

is that a special power it gives you?

No I can tell bc you think a) that it has something to do with looking better than the OT and b) that it's an advice book. Neither are remotely accurate

A thing we use to cover up iron age horrors- please say more bc afaic you pulled out of yr ass

have you not read the torah?

I'm not suggesting you know nothing about the OT. I'm asserting that you know nothing about the Talmud.

My question to you is give me some examples of how the Talmud covers up the "horrors" of the OT.

I already stated I haven't read the talmud. I was talking about the old test/torah in my other post.

Just for clarity you did write: "like the new testament, the talmud is the thing we use to cover up the despotic iron age horrors of the hebrew bible" my pt is that this is an embarrassing misrepresentation of the talmud

I said that because the torah is full of horrors, and like the xtians, it is preferred to study the gospels, or the jews, the talmud, because it is largely more moral by todays standards. Sorry if this wasn't clear.