HEY JEWS

wallotaschen

next level ^

There were mad queues at all the local continental deli's yesterday in prep for pesach. I'd not realised it was coming up, the local shops were insanity!

who's ready for the annual posting of my Passover ditty?

me me me

HERE IT COMES!!!

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

!!!!

Gotta get some tomorrow. My Catholic in-laws (with whom we are staying for another week and a half) will be very confused.

x-post--left-over hamentashen

There was a shop selling matza-patterned ties and boxer shorts down the road. I wanted to buy a tie but wasnt sure if it was cool.

Gotta get some tomorrow. My Catholic in-laws (with whom we are staying for another week and a half) will be very confused.

― quincie, Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait till they hear what it's made with

omg lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bppafE_BuY

super cool article about different old haggadahs:
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html

Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party Pesakh Haggadah According to a New Mode

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

happy pesach

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jr4LSdALxpI

gah, I don't know why that won't embed. anyway, enjoy.

DId someone already post this?
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2006/04/the_twominute_haggadah.b.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/31/berlin_jew_in_the_box_ehibit_stirs_controversy.html

step one. put a jew in a box.

better than tilda swinton if you ask me

i wish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimouna celebrations were more common

from fb:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/479881_571694366182740_1908504065_n.jpg

a friend translated the hebrew text below the pic:

What is the Mimuna about?

My grandmother told me that in Morocco, Passover was the one week that Muslims and Jews were apart. All year, they would sit together, eat drink, drink, talk, laugh, and raise their children together. However, on Passover, because it was forbidden for Jews to eat chametz at their neighbors' they would separate a bit. Therefore, they came up with the custom of Mimuna, so that their neighbors would understand that the reason they didn't get together over the course of the week was because of the holiday - and not because they didn't want to be friends. It was important for them to demonstrate their love and closeness, and therefore they made a large feast that all of the neighbors were invited to. It is a celebration of hospitality, of neighborliness, and of coexistence.

i think this is pretty good at speaking to an issue that isn't always represented accurately: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-outreach-revolution/

In off-the-record interviews with outreach workers associated with Chabad, Aish HaTorah, Modern Orthodox organizations, and community kollelim, I received the same response, sometimes offered with a shrug, sometimes with strong conviction: If the Jews whom I have taught and mentored become more active in their Reform or Conservative synagogues, they say, or in their federations or Israel-oriented organizations, or in their willingness to marry another Jew and raise a Jewish family of any kind, I consider that to be a success.

A good many non-Orthodox leaders probably would respond to this flat assertion with incredulity, for it has become an article of faith that Orthodox outreach is cult-like and intentionally designed to raid the non-Orthodox sectors of the Jewish community. With a few exceptions, this is simply false. In fact, what is actually happening is far more interesting: Kiruv has become a powerful vehicle for re-engaging Jews with the non-Orthodox sectors of the community. Leading members of Conservative and Reform synagogues attend Chabad educational programs or community kollel study sessions and then return to their home congregations, probably as better-informed Jews. Individuals who have had little contact with organized Jewish life are turned on to Judaism by kiruv workers and in many cases find their way into non-Orthodox synagogues or secular organizations.

Their numbers are not negligible. Though no one has collected definitive figures, a quick back-of-the-envelope estimate yields eye-opening results: Assuming that there are between 5,000 and 7,000 kiruv workers today and each interacts annually with an average of no more than 100 non-Orthodox Jews (a conservative figure given the size of most Chabad centers and the popularity of kiruv events sponsored by other organizations), the collective impact of Orthodox outreach may touch between a half million and 700,000 Jews each year, rivaling the impact of the Conservative and Reform movements, and in the majority of cases complementing and enhancing the work of those important movements.

The history of song & dance Hava Nagila movie doc is at the West End Theatre in W. DC

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44219/hava-nagila-reviewed-the-story-of-americas-favorite-nigun-told/

my jew b-day is tnite/tmmrw :)

chag sameach mordy

wait no

yom huledet sameach

as we would sing in a linguistically suspect fashion to the happy birthday song at shul when I was small

http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.com/

blog for fans of Jewish Moroccan music

happy jewish bday!

http://www.israelhebrew.com/wp-content/uploads/happy-birthday-in-hebrew1.jpg

mazels on your "j-date"

https://twitter.com/hashtagjewbrag

http://forward.com/articles/176823/reform-rabbi-urges-hebrew-union-college-to-reconsi/

:/

man some of those comments are whoa

I am still not a jew, but I felt this thread may enjoy that a local group was able to register jewishfoodfair.com for their event this weekend. Why would this domain not be in high demand?

man some of those comments are whoa

― quincie, Friday, May 17, 2013 3:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. but i guess i embrace a third position: the sooner we all assimilate and become secular the better.

i just mean assimilate to secularism, not give up all traces of jewish cultural practice & tradition btw

last I checked even Reconstructionist Rabbinical College had a quiet policy of not admitting people partnered with non-Jews, though it's possible that that's been revisited since they merged with JRF.

hm, still extant in the catalog, "An applicant who is married to or in a committed relationship with a non-Jewish partner will not be admitted to the rabbinical program."

I had no idea about these policies, and they make me really sad. Also pissed, and embarrassed.

2 questions for hey jews:

1. should i attend this event?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/960125_10151614880369795_36079337_n.jpg?oh=fd4259584e298c1c530f31ed7e759966&oe=519EFEE8&__gda__=1369385540_406c143860cdd4f5210ffa12c12c300e

2. should i liveblog it???

just made myself some matzah brei with maple syrup. <3

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/birthright-alumni-marry-later-and-are-more-likely-to-marry-jewish.premium-1.529422

His latest findings show that among Birthright participants involved in interfaith marriages, 13 percent had spouses who underwent formal conversions. Among members of the non-participant group, formal conversions were almost non-existent. In general, Birthright participants are far more likely to marry within the faith than are non-participants. The latest research shows that 73 percent of participants in the program ultimately marry other Jews, as compared with just 50 percent among non-participants.

correlation vs. causation

dramatic either way