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The Top 20 Jewish Comedians Of The Trump Era
Every day this week we’ll be highlighting classic and cutting-edge Jewish comedy, from the best Jewish memes to the best jokes about Jews by non-Jews. L’chaim! It’s a strange time in comedy when world events feel increasingly absurd, but, like…not in a fun way. Comedians can help us contextualize the absurdity. Or they can be…
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Israeli Cardiologist Performs ‘First-In-The-World’ Emergency Heart Procedure
An Israeli cardiologist claims to have developed a “first in the world” heart procedure, by plugging a bleeding hole in a 29-year old’s heart, using a device that is usually used to unblock arteries. Prof. Victor Guetta, Director of the Invasive and Interventional Cardiology Unit at Sheba Medical Center, reports having used a device called…
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AIPAC, After Hours: What Really Happens When 18K Israel Supporters Gather?
In the basement of Penn Social, a sports bar just off the mall in Washington, DC., one Reform, one Orthodox, and two Conservative rabbinical students are playing Dance Dance Revolution. Between the chirp-y Japanese pop music coming from the arcade game and the din of the bar, it’s hard to hear that the two dancers…
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Jewish Girl’s Social Diary: Purim Partying And Purim Protesting
To celebrate Purim, our Jewish social diarist went clubbing and protesting, back to back. She partied downtown, and protested in Midtown. She drank with Chabad and the club crowd, and marched with the beanie-wearing leftists. Here, she tells the tale of two very different Purims. The BASH. We knew we were close to “The Official…
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The Purim Story Is All About Jews Being Charged With Dual Loyalty
Purim is one of the more peculiar days of Jewish revelry; it is characterized by palace intrigue — jockeying for power, betrayal and sexual trickery — and hails Jewish victory over an avowed enemy. Laced with irony, the Book of Esther, also known as the Megillah, recounts the story of the Jews of Shushan in…
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Are Off-The-Rack Purim Costumes Not Eco-Friendly?
Just about anyone will tell you that the holiday of Purim would not be the same without its costumes: Dressing up for the holiday is a relatively young, nonetheless highly popular tradition, among children and adults alike. Back in the day, most Israeli parents would make their children’s costumes themselves, either compiling wild assortments of…
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No, Esther Did Not Enter A Beauty Pageant: 3 Myths About Purim
Myth 1: Esther entered a royal beauty pageant to audition to be the queen Let’s look at what the Megillah actually says – “When the king’s order and edict was proclaimed, and when many girls were assembled in the royal province of Shushan under the supervision of Hegai, Esther too was taken into the king’s palace…
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Jewish Girl’s Social Diary: Orthodox Dating, Drunk Ferris Wheel, and Shabbat Glitter Yoga
How do Jews in America live today? And how do they party, celebrate, throw down, and share joy? For this new Life feature, we’ll attend three diverse Jewish social events and share our experiences of all three. If you would like your event to be covered by the Forward, email [email protected] Drinking, for the culture…
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Finally, Sabbath-Observant Musicians Find A Home Off Broadway — In Yiddish ‘Fiddler’
Tradition was not lost when “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish moved uptown last month to Off-Broadway’s Stage 42 and the production decided to keep their Sabbath-observant orchestra players. It’s an unusual act for a high-caliber commercial show to permit subs during its opening weeks, and Tevye would be pleased. Although most of the musicians…
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How To ‘Marie Kondo’ Your Purim
The Purim food packages I have the fondest memory of making are the impromptu mishloach manot (as they’re called in Hebrew) that I put together as a freshman in college, when my supplies were limited to the home-baked hamentaschen my mother had mailed me in a tin, the kosher caramels available at the convenience store…
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Queer? Trans? Female? Here’s How To Find Tefillin
There are literally hundreds of different ways of choosing, wrapping, and storing a set of tefillin [phylacteries]. Eichler’s Judaica superstore offers more than 2,000 tefillin-related items for purchase online alone, from a Swarovski crystal adorned bag, to a military camouflage case, and a strangely economical set of blinged-out gold plastic storage boxes—all to compliment the…
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