Yid Vid: Orangutans Enjoy Matzo (But Not Too Much, Lest…)
Elsewhere in the Forward-sphere, our bilingual bard, Stanley Siegelman, notes that Passover also has something to offer lovers, children, communists, drunks and Eliot Spitzer.
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News Yid Vid: Israel Through British Eyes
Staffers from the British pro-Israel advocacy group Bicom took to the streets to find out what ordinary Britons know about Israel. They compiled some of the sillier responses into a YouTube highlight reel: I personally like how the woman in the kaffiyeh thought the capital of Israel was “Iran.” Of course, I’m sure one could…
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Life Yid Vid: Yael Naim May Be Big on TV, But Hadar Manor Is Queen of the Tube
What is it with young Israeli singer-songwriters making great music in Europe? First, we saw the ascent of 30-year-old Yael Naim, the Paris-based songstress who became suddenly famous after her beautiful single “New Soul” was used in an Apple commercial. Now, across the Channel, another young Israeli is getting a bit of attention of her…
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Culture Yid Vid: Two Ways of Celebrating Purim
The Nahariya way: The Bobover way:
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Culture Yid Vid: ‘Jewno’
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Life Yid Vid: Israeli TV Makes Intermarriage Seem Funny, Grave
This is a great report from Israel’s Channel 10 on intermarriage in America. The report offers an incisive outsider’s perspective on this sensitive issue that manages to be simultaneously funny and serious and offers a thoroughly human look at an American Jewish dilemma without proffering easy answers. It was posted on YouTube late last year….
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Life Yid Vid: Looking for Jewish Comedians in All the Wrong Places
To borrow the words of a famous Jewish comedian: pretty, pretty, pretty good! Hat tip: L.A. Jewish Journal. (I don’t know how we got scooped on this one given the Forward’s longstanding association with a certain Jewish comedian who’s featured prominently in this video.)
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Life Yid Vid: Fiddler on the Goof?
“Fiddler on the Roof” and “Avenue Q” are two major Broadway musicals that celebrate community and kvetch about poverty through the cunning use of puppets. Oh wait, that last part is only “Avenue Q.” But not anymore…
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