HEY JEWS

I am going to make matzah ball soup next week, though in a kitchen full of chametz.

I have THREE types of matzah at the ready. Need ideas for what to eat it with.

Not gonna worry about the lipstick given that not even my matzah ball soup is gonna be kosher (planning to use real butter instead of margarine/schmaltz/oil).

"haven't we suffered enough"

not to mention constipation

Look at these pyramid-shaped matzah-balls that some architect cooked (in today's Washington Post Food section)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032300722.html

I second the marshmallow twists and the fruit slices.

Vegetarian seder at historic 6th & I synagogue in DC sold out.

Passover time Monday

i wish i had a seder to attend. no way am i going to the fucking hillel. always HATED those places.

hillel zombies: hey, what USY chapter did you go to? when did you go to israel? isn't it amazing?
me: fuck off.

I never went to the Hillel ones (was close enough to go home). I am guessing the White House seder that was the subject of a NY Times article yesterday does not resemble the Hillel ones:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28seder.html?scp=1&sq=seder&st=cse

Am going to a conservadox seder tonight! Excited! But then I am switching teams to Reform and not doing a second night seder. I'm ready with the matzoh, though.

Chag sameach jewbros! I'm going to my parents charedi seder

so psyched for SEDER!

just finished my crazy wonderful seder at which i was somehow one of the only two jews present.

my mom's family didn't host a seder this yr, so i hosted one at my apartment for 15 or so friends for the second yr running. cooked a pot roast and matzoh ball soup from scratch and many other delicious things and they all turned out pretty well (although the soup itself could have been a bit stronger).

i now have mad respect for my bubbes and anyone who does yearly seders because this shit is DIFFICULT - especially when limited to 72 hours of prep time or less.

chag sameach, MoTs

reallly missing the seder this year :( last year was fun at my old apartment, and i think this might be the first year i didn't celebrate at all. meant to grab some matzoh ball soup @ the jewish deli on 1st ave but didn't.

these egg matzos taste exactly like the plain ones wtf

The 12 Plagues in peeps form: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17025280@N00/sets/72157600038845249/detail/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/441046093_2437c1534a_m.jpg

for a holiday without bread there is sure a shit ton of carbs involved

these egg matzos taste exactly like the plain ones wtf

Weird, cuz usually they don't. What's the brand?

Manischewitz passover egg "crackers" (i.e., mini matzo)

tam tams?!

This thread could use some of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-v-Pv6KuTg

^^^not actually Jews, but inspiring nonetheless.

Y'all eating "matzah bri" (scrambled eggs with matzah) and gefilte fish and left-over chicken soup still...I am

I've finished the egg matzah crackers (lol at "according to ashkenazic practice, all egg matzo may be eaten only by the young, infirm or aged. If you are of sephardic ancestry, consult your rabbi.") and am moving on to the Rakusen's Tea Matzos and the Yehuda regular matzah. Have not yet attempted matzah brei, but intend to this weekend.

And I'm having pizza tonight. Not matzah pizza, real pizza. Sorry to let you down, Jews.

Obama and oil drilling and now this.

To what extent can you justify a tortilla as not-fully- of semi-leavened bread?

hmmm if you are Sephardic and it is a corn tortilla, I think maybe you can get away with it? But no way if you are Askenazic.

Ring jells are addictive. I need to moisten the matzah less on my matzah brei.

my matzo balls came out. . . too light and fluffy? Like they actually could do with being heavier? I suppose I could have followed a recipe, but what's the fun in that?

Each year, the Forward names the Forward 50, recognizing the most influential American Jews today. Join us for a panel discussion with recent Forward 50 honorees, including: Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service; Dmitriy Salita, a world championship contender in boxing's junior welterweight division; and Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard

I should go to this 6th & I DC synagogue panel event and harass Bill Kristol. Ugh. Ask him about both his mistakes small (his well-know factual errors in columns) and big (his role in pushing imaginary weapons of mass destruction as an argument for the Iraq war)

Or maybe I can get the boxer to take care of him!

Corn and corn products are not kosher for Passover b/c corn swells when it absorbs moisture and that's considered too similar to "rising" even though it has no relation to yeast action or leavening or anything remotely addressed by the proscription against not waiting for your bread to rise.

On the other hand, the total ridiculousness of it all gives us Passover coke with real sugar.

Question: is Heeb magazine always so terrible? Flipped through the Heep 100 issue and was all wtf hipsters.

why would a magazine called Heeb never be terrible?

Can't remember the name right now but I always liked way back when a NY fanzine about Jewish stuff and Jews in rock, penned by a gal into Unrest and Teenbeat Records and stuff. Much better than Heeb.

Heeb is an abomination - Sarah Silverman's cover shot for it was funny tho

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Ng0R1uJ98uc2QM:http://truthpraiseandhelp.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/heeb.jpg

curmudgeon - Plotz?

whole wheat matza: indistinguishable from carpet sample

x-post, yes I think it was Plotz

happy obscure yet still historically important holiday fellow jews!

Here, have some cheesecake!

here's hoping cheese wins in the cheese vs. chocolate poll

someone just reminded me its Shavuot.

were they shaking a palm leaf at you

no! much worse, in fact.

everytime i see this thread title, i want to shout "HEY GOYS"

were they shaking a sefer torah at you?

actually they were pressuring me to attend a bowling tournament on friday.

as they well-know:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-11870311283124/shabbos-rblue.gif

On Thursday May 27th, Sire / Warner Bros. Recording artist Regina Spektor will perform at The White House for the first ever White House reception in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.

Spektor is thrilled to join President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to celebrate the range and depth of the Jewish American heritage and contributions to American culture.

"Having moved to America from Soviet Russia as a child with my family, we dreamed of reconnecting with our religious traditions and of making America our home" says Spektor. "Having lived here for over twenty years, it is an unimaginable honor to be invited to the White House by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, to an event celebrating Jewish Americans, and to be counted among them. Nothing in the world could make us feel more accepted and at home!"

The celebration will take place in The White House with guests representing the many walks of life that have helped weave the fabric of American history. Invitees include a range of community leaders and prominent Jewish Americans from Olympians and professional athletes to members of Congress, business leaders, authors and military veterans.

Jewish American Heritage Month? Never heard of it. I'm kind of meh re Regina Spektor.