HEY JEWS

See, that's yet another reason why I say fuck an Israel. My wife wondered out loud if this would be a good year to take the kids to Israel, and I told her there were a million places I'd want to go to a first time before I ever went back there.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/156760/Analysis:-Why-the-Frum-Community-Lost-A-Seat-in-the-New-York-City-Council.html

Charles Katz is an attorney practicing criminal law in New York, and above all a “god-fearing Jew”.

woo http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/after-delay-yiddish-writers-papers-will-be-made-available-to-public/

Lew, who was White House chief of staff while Obama’s campaign was pummeling Romney over his pay and taxes, received a $945,000 bonus in January 2009 after a brief tenure at Citigroup — just as the bank announced huge losses and took a taxpayer bailout. Lew also invested $56,000 in a Citigroup venture-capital fund registered in the Cayman Islands — registered in the very building, in fact, that Obama labeled “the largest tax scam in the world.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-senators-turn-the-tables-on-caymans-investor-jack-lew/2013/02/13/d01cac80-7631-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html?hpid=z2

An orthodox Jew, and likely next US Treasury secretary, whom I think is not a mensch

i think obama just called registering in the cayman islands "the largest tax scam in the world" not the particular investment lew was involved in. that paragraph makes it ambiguous.

Sounds like there was something special about the building.

Oh gotcha. I had heard about it on NPR and thought it was referring specifically to Cayman Island investments.

Grassley also asked Lew to justify investing his money in one of the 12,000 businesses based in Ugland House, a five-floor building in Grand Cayman.

...

Obama frequently mentioned Ugland House on the campaign trail in 2008. Baucus held a hearing on it that year, saying that the place had “a lot to do with tax evasion” and the $345 billion gap “between the taxes legally owed and the taxes timely paid.”

"This is the most Jewish thing I've ever seen in_my_life."

And later

"So this director's not Jewish but he obviously wishes he was. Everyone else who made this must be Jewish." - my friend's 60-something year old mother, about four minutes into "Moonrise Kingdom"

I saw Clueless tonight and was enjoying the not-that-crypto-Jewishness of it all.

I've been meaning to revisit that movie. Haven't seen it since it was in theaters.

http://www.davidstuff.com/opinion/taxes-ugland-big.jpg

lest you think it a five-story building that's just really, really long

profile of my childhood synagogue!
http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/a-tale-of-two-synagogues

Mordy will you tell this thread sometime how you went from a childhood in an egalitarian Conservative congregation to almost becoming a charedi Rabbi to being on the top of the Super Hexagon leaderboards? It sounds like quite the journey.

i'm too busy trying to find out what comes next!!!

btw i am very excited to be celebrating purim this year from friday night to sunday night. i intend to drink prolifically. hopefully not as prolifically as when i was 14 and got so drunk at a synagogue purim party (that inasense were playing at!) that i threw up in my parent's car and had to clean it up in the morning.

serious answer: my parents became baal teshuva when i was a kid which is also why i started out in a schechter school and wound up in r' moshe feinstein's yeshiva.

not even MusicBrainz has heard of that band xp

they later renamed themselves as soul farm

this seems like the more extensive bt wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_teshuva_movement

still playing purims http://www.soulfarm.net/pages.php?title=events

i'm sure there are still 14 year old kids throwing up at their purim parties

i went to solomon schecter day school grades 1-3

um wat

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/17614_502148296498359_7419293_n.jpg

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the hamantaschen with Peeps filling we made in college.

i went to solomon schecter day school grades 1-3

recently realized that all of the schools in The Instructions are real (incl. one by this name).

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LM_wsV2F5YA/USSIVnSXU0I/AAAAAAAAWDk/uXn6WPg_ma8/s1600/hamantash2.png

JEWS I AM TOTALLY PSYCHED FOR BIG WEEKEND DRINKING

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

was that really necessary

Der Pilsberger Tyygboychik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wfzdxPNIxY

that's about how I remember it yeah, but it's too bad that they left out the part about Vashti's sexy naked dancing

or rather refusal to do sexy naked dancing

freilichen purim!!!!!!

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/cleanplatecharlie/L

What are you doing on this thread? It's the Oscars! Jews be in LA.

Ah it was purim this past weekend? That explains the 2 very tipsy hasid boys in the pub bottle shop wearin foamdome beer hats and buying cans of VB.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/nyregion/moshiach-oi-merges-orthodox-judaism-and-punk-rock.html?ref=music

debating whether to attempt seder at our own home this year. never done it before...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21847517

would eat

http://forward.com/workspace/assets/images/articles/seder-12131.jpg

http://forward.com/articles/173508/how-is-the-white-house-seder-different-from-all-ot/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21848736

Israel's first Ethiopian Jewish Miss Israel winner

we making a combination of my zeida's and nach waxman's brisket for seder 2.0 this year

I have eaten so much Texas brisket in the past week that I'm not sure I can do brisket ever again. . .

Man I should make brisket

On the topic of Texas and brisket: spouse really wants me to write to Kinky Friedman to pitch a Texas Haggadah + recipe book, feature smoked brisket and Texified traditional fixins, plus a spin on the seder plate (and the Haggadah, obv).

quincie says I should share this with you:

matzah nails

mmm brisket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wpzLKo3diWk

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2139164,00.html