HEY JEWS (TWO)

[cue "Eye of the Tiger]

It's the
Bread of affliction
It's the bread of the Jews
Leavened 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 seven sheeeeeeeeeeets
Of the matzah

Wondering if anyone can beat a five and a half hour seder from last night.

Good thing I have off today!

we were at that length too but there was a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng shulchan orech and a lot of the kids were put to bed before final singing

seder was nice. girls wanted to stay up for it which was fine but now (the next day) they're in full meltdown mode and i'm putting them to bed instead of bringing them to the second night.

I was seated next to a lovely college student with a beautiful voice (she's in a campus choir), which was ace.

Goy Dad Report, Goy Dad Report

Minibot learned about Passover at Yom Rishon. Then we ate bacon

whose seder tombot?

as if my wife's family needed even more things to bash the trump administration about tonight.. thanks spice dog

Damn did he deliver.

I'm a rabbi.
I believe words have power.
I try to choose mine carefully.

Fuck you, Trump.

— Rav Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) August 15, 2017

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As his biographer Shawn Levy emphasizes, Lewis scarcely needed to remind American audiences of his Judaism, since his essence and ambience were so obviously imbued with Yiddishkeit.

With his approval, Lewis’ friend Frank Sinatra called him “Jew” rather than by his first or last name. One of Lewis’ most inventive films, “The Bellboy,” (1960) was filmed in and around the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, a 1954 edifice designed by the Odessa-born Morris Lapidus, who expressed an exultant Jewish kitsch esthetic of New World overabundance....

Unlike Groucho Marx or an array of stand-up comedians, Lewis’s roots were in clowning. He was an exalted version of the Borscht Belt tummler, a hired entertainer who dresses as a waiter and deliberately falls into a hotel swimming pool to get a rise from overfed vacationers. Never verbally adroit, and increasingly inarticulate as he aged and health issues intervened, Lewis’s attempts to express his points of view could understandably offend. His heyday was a time of different sensibilities. Lewis approvingly recounted in a memoir that Dean Martin joked to a 1950s nightclub audience at Ciro’s in West Hollywood, before a solo appearance without Lewis, that it was a “night I’ve been praying for, for the last eight years - to be alone on stage without that goddamn noisy Jew.”

...Even the notoriously indelicate comedian Joan Rivers found Lewis’s interaction with disabled children on camera unpalatable, and said as much in public. This sparked a longstanding feud between Rivers and Lewis, who threatened to wreak violence from Mafia pals if she ever returned to the subject. Uncharacteristically, Rivers remained mum thereafter on the topic.

http://forward.com/culture/380560/jerry-lewis-the-comic-genius-who-never-had-to-remind-us-he-was-a-jew/

L'shana Tova

Doing a zoom Rosh Hashanah service from Temple Romemu in Brooklyn (Rabbi Scott Perlo used to be at 6th & I in DC. Chazan Basya Schechter has a wonderful voice )

https://elanabrody.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-just-dust-adam-yesodo

Elana Brody sang with the cantor at the service and did a version her song, plus collaborated with cantor and Rabbi and others on Leonard Cohen "Who by Fire"

Made a Moroccan carrots and chickpeas dish rather than tsimmes this year, and it was pretty good.

I have a running joke that every year a non-Jew will remind me it’s Rosh Hashanah when it’s already started (as I am a bad and forgetful Jew). This year it was a
notification from the social media app for my daughters preschool.

I had a non-Jew ask me last night if it was too late to wish someone "Shona Tovah," and I said sure, why not, it's basically just "Happy New Year."

I only this morning learned of the provenance of “Who By Fire?” and that is very interesting!

I worked with a cantor on an album of liturgical songs and became obsessed with “Ashamnu”, listening to it this morning

there are some very cool and dramatic songs in the high holiday repertoire. mogwai already did a doom-y post rock "avinu malkeinu," but someone should try their hand at "unetanah tokef"

curmudgeon, Elana Brody is an acquaintance of mine via her sister and brother-in-law who are very close friends. Very cool that you got to see her do her thing. At our service (which was generally very nice), the cantor did that piece in Hebrew to the tune of "Dust in the Wind" which was pretty corny.

In any case, shana tovah to all!

Haven't read this yet, but it seems apropos

https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/9/20/dead-words-and-haunting-melody

Every time I see this thread in SNA, I sing it to the tune of New Orders “Hey Joe” in my head, then feel a little weird about it

Here's another good Jew link, to this good personal essay in Defector about Jews and Krusty the Clown. Hopefully this archived link works:

https://archive.ph/ktMaQ

Kol Nidre tonight