Natalie Portman takes a page from Bollywood in a video from her bohemian beau Devendra Banhart (who is, no doubt, by now the object of loathing from jealous young Jewish men the world over): I’m waiting for the inevitable backlash from the Hindu circles that don’t take kindly to such acts of artistic appropriation. In…
Max Blumenthal, scourge of conservative conferences, turns his camera toward Holocaust denier David Irving, who recently swung by New York City for a stop on his American speaking tour. Blumenthal doesn’t have to work too hard to make his subject look ridiculous: Irving spoke in a room at an Upper East Side church basement, but…
The new issue of Heeb Magazine has a nice interview with Mac-made musical sensation Yael Naim. From it I learned that the Israeli-born singer, best-known for her brilliant “New Soul,” does a live cover of Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” “I wanted to take something far from what I enjoy and make it mine,” Naim tells Heeb….
There was nary a review of Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” that didn’t mention the movie’s steady stream of hummus jokes. The irony is that, as the following shocking video reveals, Sandler doesn’t even like hummus. And when he appeared to be eating the mashed-chickpea spread in the film, he was actually…
The bad news is that you have to wait until the end of the video to find out. The good news is that, in the meantime, you get to learn about famed New York ess-ery Barney Greengrass — “the Sturgeon King” — which is celebrating its 100th birthday. A few years back, my friend Victor…
For an even more learned take on the hoopoe, see Jonathan Rosen’s op-ed in The New York Times. Hat tip: Jewlicious
In the past decade, Birthright Israel has established itself as the Jewish community’s unquestioned leader in providing free Israel trips to young Jews. More recently, it has also become, quite possibly, the Jewish community’s No. 1 patron of the art of YouTube video-making. For its latest effort, Birthright enlists Israel’s leading lip-syncers, Tasha and Dishka,…
Michelle Citrin and William Levin, the Jewish YouTube impresarios who last year brought us “I Gotta Love You [Rosh Hashana](https://forward.com/schmooze/320610/rosh-hashana/ “Rosh Hashana”)h” (a Taglit-Birthright Israel –sponsored parody of a parody) are back with “20 Things To Do With Matzah” (sponsored by Streit’s matzo factory). Says Levin of filming the new video, “Most people are cleaning…
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