Our submitter wrote: “It’s silly! It’s creative! It’s fun! It’s a 2 minute craft project to quickly make yourself a grogger for Purim. Rebbetzin Tap love life, family, friends, community and being Jewish! See more at rebbetzintap.com.” This isn’t really the usual kind of video we’d put up here but geez, Rebbetzin Tap is so […]
Read more
Props to Yossi Tarablush. He’s an Israeli comedian, based in Israel, who nonetheless performs stand up comedy in English. I mean it’s hard enough being funny in your own language, but then to accomplish such a feat in a language you didn’t grow up in? Awesome. So, tomorrow is the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat […]
Read more
Taylor, a Buzzfeed employee who is Jewish, stars in another video about Jews. This time she white-girl-raps her song of the alienation felt by a Jew at a Christmas party. While I don’t believe she’s never heard of “Secret Santa” or mistletoe, I too must admit that I have no idea what a “Yule” is. […]
Read more
Judging by our Web stats, we can only assume that a lot of visitors to JewTube aren’t Jewish. As such it behooves us to provide you, our dear visitors, with videos that are educational. It is with this in mind that we present you with this long-form 40 minute video outlining the full history of […]
Read more
A latke is a fried potato pancake, often consumed by Jews on Hanukkah to commemorate the miracle of oil – the Maccabees wanted to rededicate the Temple after conquering the Greeks. In order to do so they needed sanctified oil to light the Menorah but only had enough oil to last one day and it […]
Read more
This Hanukkah collaboration between Erez Cohen, Six13, A.K.A. Pella, & The Y Studs is probably pretty good but it’s hard to tell what with all the ugly Hanukkah sweaters that are all over this video! Talk about distracting… You too can wear the same ugly Hanukkah apparel worn by the guys and dolls in this […]
Read more
In this clip, featuring the cast of Saturday Night Live and Alec Baldwin, SNL very clearly demonstrates how difficult it is to fit Hanukkah into a Christmas-style celebration. How so? Well, Hanukkah is actually a pretty complex holiday. Yes, the Maccabees definitely kicked their enemies butts and managed to rededicate the holy temple. However, many […]
Read more
Hannukah means another holiday video by the Maccabeats. It’s as inevitable as Christmas envy, Matzoball parties and latkes vs. sufganiyot debates. This year the a capella boys from Yeshiva University do a parody of “Shut Up And Dance” by Walk the Moon, while sharing their latke recipe. Here’s an actual latke recipe you can use […]
Read more
…while singing Yiddish folk songs. Hans Breuer, the subject of the 2005 book Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd witnessed the growing refugee crisis in Europe. As the son of Jewish parents who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930’s and became homeless refugees, the situation struck […]
Read more
Adrian Chen at the New Yorker wrote a long, well researched piece on the role Twitter played in Megan Phelps-Roper’s decision to leave the Westboro Baptist Church, founded by her grandfather Fred Phelps. The piece, written for New Yorker’s annual technology issue showed how a twitter discussion between Megan and David Abitbol of Jewlicious fed […]
Read more
