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
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 November 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
every time this pops up in my bookmarks i hear rita moreno yellinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C797vkyV5hc
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/153792/brodner-thanksgiving
http://cdn1.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/JT-Final-1.jpg
― Mordy, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Saturday, 29 November 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Saturday, 29 November 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/
― Mordy, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Anyone here have ancestors from the Bessarabia/Moldova area?
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 6 December 2014 07:09 (nine years ago) link
http://elitedaily.com/music/shake-it-off-hanukkah-best-parody/879262/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 December 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
there's also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wi1H3UnKhk
― Mordy, Saturday, 13 December 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― man alive, Friday, 19 December 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
Yep. Ari Roth has a great rep in the theatre world.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Interstingly, the webpage for Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art redirects to an Air Jordan store.
― how's life, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Monday, 16 February 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
"mommy" probably
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
i guess like adults aren't any better at apprehending the existence of god
― Mordy, Monday, 16 February 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-double-life-of-hasidic-atheists
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 February 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 27 February 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 27 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 27 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 February 2015 03:41 (4 days ago)
the hidden fedora beneath the shtreimel
― poc het ino (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11021402_737693419837_6749085109262047544_o.jpg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
too much time on ilx
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/only-some-people-are-jewish-2150
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Hosting our first seder this year
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 26 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wsj.com/articles/man-seders-flow-with-steak-and-scotch-1427320586
― 龜, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
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?
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
a good read though. if you can stomach it.
^ someone who has never learnt any talmud
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
drek is about to get real in here
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 07:06 (nine years ago) link
anyone ever had "spelt matza". kosher for Passover but a different grain
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
― Mordy,
secular people learn life from life, mistakes etc. not an advice book on how and when to do things. sorry.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
I can tell from yr posts that you literally know nothing about the Talmud
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
maybe stop embarrassing yourself and keep to things you actually know about
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
is that a special power it gives you?
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm not suggesting you know nothing about the OT. I'm asserting that you know nothing about the Talmud.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
My question to you is give me some examples of how the Talmud covers up the "horrors" of the OT.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
I already stated I haven't read the talmud. I was talking about the old test/torah in my other post.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link