HEY JEWS

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.

me meh too but she is pretty cute

jewish?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/nyregion/25about.html :(

I saw! Do you think anyone has contacted the guy who started a Yiddish library? It's in Amherst, allied with one of the colleges. He wrote that book, I think it was called Words on Fire, about trying to rescue Yiddish books all over the East Coast and have a place to put them, it was an awesome read.

It wouldn't take the place of a living bookstore but maybe their publishing program wouldn't go to waste or whatever??

There's a few Yiddish libraries in NY (at least one associated with YIVO and a famous archive in Crown Heights), so there are def places it could go. But it's a shame for the last store to close.

I wonder what exhibit programs the Jewish Museum has done on Yiddish works. I don't keep up w their schedule, just went to a couple of particular exhibits (the history of comics one and the Maurice Sendak one, both a few years ago).

From a press release sent to me:

On Monday, August 30th, bandleader Arturo O'Farrill will bring Mazeltov, Mis Amigos back to life at Yoshi's- an album of "Yiddish Favorites in Latin Tempo". The incredible line-up includes Larry Harlow, Wil-Dog of Ozomatli, and the Burton Sisters, performing together for the first time in 55 years. This show is ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Yoshi's in San Francisco. Harlow is Jewish

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happy lebronukkah, sarahpalin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU

lol, i went to school with these guys

Happy Purim, Yiddin!

I'm going to wear my hamantaschen earrings tomorrow.

I'm suprised I havent noticed much hullaballoo around here today, usually there's some dude driving rounnd playing hip hop and rapping in hebrew.

I had this idea recently that we should turn Purim into a grotesque caricature of itself and make it a general American drinking holiday like St. Paddy's day. Hooligans roaming the streets with groggers, haman masks, eating hamentashen and drinking maneschevitz. Whaddya say?

Maybe the makers of He-brew would sponsor.

Am I the only one who thought this (POO- REM)thread revive was about Purim? Indeed, I was confused about the opening post.

I had this idea recently that we should turn Purim into a grotesque caricature of itself and make it a general American drinking holiday like St. Paddy's day. Hooligans roaming the streets with groggers, haman masks, eating hamentashen and drinking maneschevitz. Whaddya say?

This is brilliant -- the Irish have St. Patrick's Day, the Italians have Columbus Day, where's ours? Then again there are lots more Irish and Italians than Jews. The Germans are a much bigger ethnic group and we should probably let them try to ramp up Oktoberfest before it's our turn.

I think that's what Purim is like in Israel, actually.

And no, the less holidays there are like St Patrick's day the better.

http://www.newyorkshitty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/moses.jpg

chosen ppl are in a hurry

I don't know if I'd go to a seder held by "a community of artists."

Heh the hasid community round my suburb always put up humourous things like that, usually posters for plays and things with loljew joke titles. I wish I could remember one now.

Hey Jews, time to start singing my Passover song:

Hey Jews I wrote a little passover ditty, 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

^^^all-time classic

gonna get major play in my family seder for sure

http://www.aish.com/h/pes/mm/Passover_Google_Exodus.html

Telling the Passover story with Google and other computer methods...

Ate two and a half sheets of matzah last night. Hard to stop once you get started.

my family doesn't start eating matzah until the holiday begins (there's a halachic restriction) but that suits me fine. the less pressure on my digestive system the better.

curmudgeon that was p corny but i laughed

'egypt.gov' and pharoah having an iphone = lol

I didn't know there was a halachic restriction! Do tell!!!

That's pretty much it. Some ppl don't eat shmura matzah in the month preceding Passover (prob to make sure it stays special) tho they'll still eat egg matzah

Well I figured I was one of the few people who would choose to eat matzah outside of passover, anyway. Shmura is the special kind where the wheat was guarded from harvest to oven, yes?

My sister, who is celebrating her birthday next week, will be in town. I'm so reluctant to cook a nasty passover-friendly cake, but struggling for an edible, credible alternative.

I had a wonderful flourless chocolate torte made with ground hazelnuts a while ago--it was delicious and the total opposite of the usual nasty passover sponge cake. I will see if I can track down the recipe!

my wife makes this matzah toffee desert, let me see if I can find the recipe. it is, how you say, "like crack"

http://noblepig.com/2009/04/03/whats-a-matzo-you.aspx

Oh, we're all about the matzoh toffee! Basically the one Passover item I must insist we make only at Passover, for positive reasons!