Shabos Zmiros – Yehuda Glantz

Truly amazing stuff. This man, Yehuda Glantz, is forever married to my Shabat playlist.

via YouTube – Yehuda Glantz on charango playing Adon Olam

If you live anywhere in this vicinity…

IMPORTANT UPDATE at the bottom.
You should go to Limmud NY. It’s a long weekend of pluralistic Jewish learning, friends and fun over MLK weekend in January. If I sound like a brochure, that’s probably because I’m their intern. But I’d be posting about this anyway even if I weren’t. I went last year and had [...]

Shabos Zmiros – Y-Love raps in Aramaic!

He raps in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic. He’s Y-Love.
As Daniel “Mobius” Sieradski put it, “With each word he spits in the tongue of the Talmud, Y-Love breathes new life into Hasidism, and hip-hop, one beat at a time.”
YouTube – Introducing Y-Love

Yom huledet sameach, JBC!

Excellent convert blog Jews By Choice notes today that it recently reached one year of age and that by the end of the month, it will probably reach 100,000 page views. Mazal tov, JBC!

Spin the wheel! Spin the wheel! Spin the wheel!

Batman pals around with criminals

I have thus far managed to keep the campaign out of this blog entirely. That is not my focus or my topic here. Yet, this is just too good not to post here. I won’t comment too much on the video, except to point out that the parallels are right there [...]

Shabos Zmiros – Chana Rothman “We Can Rise”

This week’s Shabos Zmiros comes from former Kutz songleader Chana Rothman. Chana’s CD, “We Can Rise” is a fun combination of Judaism and reggae. The song take many of it’s cues from the psalm “Esa einai el heharim.”
YouTube – ORCA Media Moments “Chana Rothman”

I put together my own Lulav! (kind of)

This year, intoxicated by the coolness of the videos at this post at Jewlicious, I decided that I wanted to not only get my own Lulav and Etrog, but that I wanted to assemble the Lulav myself. Jonathan Golden, a professor here at Drew and our wonderful Hillel adivsor, had his brother, a Sephardic rabbi, [...]

“Our Pagan Yom Kippur” from FailedMessiah

Over at the excellent blog FailedMessiah.com, a whistle-blowing blog out to expose far right wing orthodox Judaism as a harmful force in the world (by covering stuff like child molestation and Agriprocessors), there’s a really interesting post about the ancient Mesopotamian holiday of Kapuru, held in the Babylonian month of Tashritu. Sound familiar? It’s a [...]

Or maybe this is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen

This. It’s an article posted at the Palestine Think Tank, a site billing itself as “Free minds for a free Palestine.” Part of it uses an rather old post of mine from when I was in Israel in high school, when this blog was called “Live from Israel: David Says Things.” The author goes about [...]

This is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen

This. Really, URJ? Facebook I kind of understood, but why, oh why, is the Union twittering?