Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Chicago is used to being a Democratic power-broker. But this campaign season, the man who led the Democratic effort to take back the House of Representatives has found himself sitting uncomfortably on the sidelines. On the one hand, he was a key aide to President Clinton, a post that launched his…
A highlight from the Chabad telethon:
The Beatles video is, of course, dubbed. The Fab Four didn’t really sing in the mameloshn, though they were, apparently, known to warble a bit in German.
The fun folks over at Jewlicious have assembled a quartet of YouTube videos that testify to the universal appeal of that beloved Jewish standard, Hava Nagila. There are renditions from Thailand, India, Britain and Texas. The Thai one is my personal favorite, but it’s been making its way around cyberspace for quite sometime, so here’s…
The kids seem pretty focused on their dance routine — if only these two heads of state would stop getting in the way. It always seems like an odd juxtaposition when Shimon Peres meets pop music. Hat tip: Ami Eden (who links to some funny commentary from Keith Olbermann).
Brandon Walker’s “Chinese Food for Christmas” is the big Christmas-season Jewish Internet video hit. It’s been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. There’s even a stripped-down, acoustic version (which has been watched more than 500,000 times!). The question is: Why? Personally, I prefer this one: My favorite line: “You see all Jewish people…
So Sandler has made a film in which he plays a crack Mossad agent who decides to move to New York to be a hairdresser. Weird? Yes. Profound? Maybe. Sandler, in my humble opinion, perfectly captured the zeitgeist of American Jewry in “50 First Dates,” the film in which he wooed an amnesiac Drew Barrymore….
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