HEY JEWS

You'll have to go Israeli style and buy jelly donuts

no channukah playlist is complete without this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNVl7TTfxs

(doesn't appear to be on spotify sadly)

preparing a mega latke-fest for friday.

picking up 6-lb brisket and cooking it tomorrow night for the next day's festivities.

journalist/photographer I know did this:

http://narrative.ly/2012/12/heretic-hasidim/

the brisket is amazing so far but i somehow sliced it WITH the grain what was i THINKING

D: D: D:

mandatory 30-day suspension of tribal privileges imo

you really dropped the torah on that one huh

to be fair, the way it was shaped, it would be pretty hard to slice it against (it was long and narrow-ish, with the grain running width-wise

NO

EXCUSE

immediate penalty box, recuse yrself from carving duties for one (1) year

http://www.scribd.com/doc/116827947/Jewish-War-Heroes-1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20764559

http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/astrolabes_poster.pdf

i have to read this http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812244664/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Who knew? I never saw that highly touted French film Last year at Marienbad either.

Holy shit I have to read that too. I've actually spent quite a bit of time in Carlsbad aka Karloy Vary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtsC8uYtew

Mordy if I come up to Philly can we meet and do super jewish things?

definitely! come during the weekend and i'll introduce you to the most delicious lamb cholent w/ kishka and pastrami that you ever tasted

Let's make a list of all the things to do in addition to cholent (I am fascinated by cholent tbh):

1) eat at all the delis
2) visit Important Jewish Places (tbh I don't know what these are outside of Israel)
3) mahjong?
4) light some candles, eat some challah
5) show up an hour late to services
6) I am dying to go to a bris and a bar/bat mitzvah; why don't I know any Jewish babies/pre-teens?

7) watch Jewish films
8) listen to awesome Jewish music
9) argue a lot?

my family is going to have a bris here in the next few weeks :)

Whoa wait did you form another babby???? A boy babby?

not mine - my brother's and not here yet so b'sha'a tova!

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/16/chabad-russian-government-federaltion-books-manuscripts-sanctions/

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/breaking-news/latest-jewish-population-data-show-gains-manhattan-loss-suffolk-0

The survey, based on interviews with 6,000 self-identified Jews in 2011, found that the Jewish population in the Bronx, which had plummeted 45 percent from 1991 to 2002, increased 20 percent in the last nine years. It found also that Brooklyn has enjoyed a steady increase of Jews over the years, increasing from 371,000 in 1991 to 561,000 in 2011.

Although Chasidic Orthodox Jews are concentrated in a few neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Modern Orthodox Jews are spread out across the metropolitan area. Nassau County has the most Conservative Jews, but their numbers are continuing to slip throughout the area, as are those of Reform Jews.

The Bronx, huh. Does that basically mean Riverdale?

I think so.

having just read my daughter the story of Purim, sheesh that Onion bit about persecution being central to Judaism is really true isn't it, it's the thread behind so many of our holidays

xp

this book is pretty much ground zero for jewish persecution porn:

http://images.nitrosell.com/product_images/9/2085/large-A%20Time%20to%20Weep_pu.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZUjvjP3fVc

So that's DbG next to Ray right?

yeah

ils ont chanté ensemble

UK singer Jessie Ware is Jewish

hey jews, a friend asked me to put together a wedding playlist for their upcoming intimate jewish wedding. i'm making a playlist atm that i'm going to clear with her, but i wanted to include some variety. anyone have ideas for songs - either explicitly jewish, or appropriate for a jewish wedding (ie: good to dance to) that might be worth including? extra points is they're easily locatable on spotify

how deep is your two live jew collection?

as deep as the spotify collection (i think they have all of their albums)

I guess Black-Eyed Peas are just popular for 13 year-old Jews at Bar and Bat Mitzvah parties.

Seriously, isn't Etta James doing "At Last" an appropriate slow dance song for any type of wedding reception.

I can't think of any pop songs that are explicitly jewish

Slow dance songs less useful if men and women are not allowed to mix at the event--though Mordy doesn't say whether this is the case, it would def shoot down a lot of music if it was!

yes, no mixed dancing

Oh, intimate ORTHODOX Jewish wedding. Is klezmer allowed?

yes, i'm including some klezmer

i haven't yet determined if kol isha is okay or not

play the bit from the Fiddler wedding where someone invents feminism

x-post--Sounds like you better ask whether they oppose having women voices. I don't want to see an article (or do I) "DJ Mordy thrown of out Wedding reception for playing woman singer"

lol i already asked. just waiting to hear back.

Or play all women singers because fuck it. Probably not good for the reception tho.

hey has anyone here seen Sylberberg's "Our Hitler" and if so is it worth sitting through?