The YidLife Crisis boys went to New York to nosh at the annual Workmen’s Circle Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair. And what does Jewish culture taste like? European treiff apparently. I mean I wouldn’t be so offended if they had called it the Ashkenazic Culture Street Fair – but everything on sample seemed to […]
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The “Danny” in the title is Danny Avidan. He and his friend Brian play video games every day at two on YouTube’s Game Grumps channel. The videos show the game play and the banter between Danny and Brian. If you are unfamiliar with this genre, you might be thinking “What the fuck?” but each video […]
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You can’t do a Web series about Israel without acknowledging Jerusalem – holy to all three monotheistic religions – Hamburger Hummus went in there and offended Judaism, Christianity and Islam in equal measure. Mommy blogger and Fashion blogger visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall. Then they got drunk with a […]
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Israel cares about the environment and uses it’s tech prowess to protect it! Also Israel has beaches and on those beaches one may find hippies doing Acroyoga and twirling hula hoops. Hamburger Hummus‘s teen blogger and the slutty fashion blogger make for an odd couple, but dang Tel Aviv sunset beach action is sizzling!
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This episode is described as “A sloppy slut, a creeper IT dude and a gay guy walk into a bar in Tel Aviv and have a night they’ll never forget. Or is that remember.” What’s Hamburger Hummus‘s message here? Is it that Israel is a country that has more than just perpetual conflict and warfare? […]
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In this, the 4th installment of Hamburger Hummus, an IT guy gets all started up when he visits a start up incubator in Tel Aviv and learns just how high-tech and hot-tech Israel is. What does that mean? Here’s a typical line “These IT girls are giving me a startup in my shorts.” See what […]
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This episode of Hamburger Hummus has it all when it comes to extolling the virtues of Israel – exotic travel, tolerance to minorities, technological and scientific innovation, peanuty snack dispensers and… parents acting high on weed even though they aren’t high at all. How exciting is that?
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This is Hamburger Hummus‘s gay episode. It’s a bit over the top but I think the point is that Tel Aviv is a gay mecca and all the waiters and patrons in fancy restaurants there are gay. That’s not exactly true – There are in fact some straight people living in Tel Aviv and bathroom […]
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Hamburger Hummus is an improbable 7-part Web series about a group of American bloggers attending “BlogCon” in Tel Aviv. “Their interests across technology, beauty, environmentalism, and shameless one-night stands lead to a bounty of Clark Griswold-like, fish-out-of-water moments,” according to the series description. The series is lavishly filmed and […]
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YidLife Crisis is an improbable Web series featuring 2 Jewish guys, Jaimie Elman and Eli Batalion from Montreal. They kvetch, kibbitz and pontificate – but unlike other shows about nothing, this one is entirely in Yiddish. Season 1 was a hoot and a holler and I was as surprised as anyone when the […]
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