We first came across the Hip Hop Hoodios when they headlined the Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach CA. It was April 9th, 2005 and while we had seen their video clips, we didn’t quite know what to expect. The combination of a Latino gang banger sound filtered through a distinctly cosmopolitan Jewish lens, well… lets […]
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They met online 10 years ago just before Yom Kippur when Megan, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, chided David Abitbol of Jewlicious, for Judaism’s “dead rote rituals.” Thus began an unlikely friendship that culminated in Megan leaving her hateful church and becoming an advocate against hate. Today, her book “Unfollow” detailing the whole […]
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Say hello to Y .Shafario, a new rapper who is from the Baltimore suburbs. He moved to New Orleans to become a lawyer, only to move to Jerusalem to become a family man and rapper. In this new rap song, the rapper strikes a series of lyrical truths over a hip-hop beat about pleasing the Neshama and G-d […]
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Tiny Desk is an NPR radio show that features a quirky collection of artists who perform at a tinydesk in front of a smattering of NPR employees and assorted friends. The show is also recorded and really well musically mastered for rebroadcast on YouTube. This episode features Israeli band A-WA, made up of three sisters […]
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Adam Sandler describes in this song from his new Netflix special, 100% Fresh, the reality of the bar mitzvah including the one mustache hair and your rabbi’s nose whistling whilst reading from the Torah. Enjoy.
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The YidLife Crisis boys are back and talking about anti-Semitism this time or should I say anticementish. Upon eating their cheesebagels, Chaim and Laizer debate about anti-Semitism from both the left and the right. This debate includes remarks such as “The Jews won’t replace us” but robots built by the Jews will. They continue their […]
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Comedy Central’s hit show about two young Jewish women, Broad City, shows how they struggle with fasting on Yom Kippur and the difficulties of waiting until sunset to break the fast. Granted, there’s something perverse about breaking your Yom Kippur fast with a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, but as the girls noted at the […]
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George Takei, famous for portraying Hikaru Sulu in the Sci-Fi show, Star Trek, explains to talk-show host Howard Stern that the celebrated hand sign actually alludes to the hand sign that the Kohanim use.
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Radio Host Howard Stern and Adam Sandler share a special Jewish connection when they both recite the Bracha on the Torah together. Stern and Sandler prove they still have it.
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Sasha-Baron Cohen’s Austrian character, Brüno, attempts to gain fame by bringing peace to one of the most complicated conflicts in the world. In Sasha-Baron Cohen style, things head south quickly and hilariously.
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