The Weekly Yiderati

Before he puts out Witz --which might be the most controversial work of fiction this year-- Joshua Cohen talks about breakfast. Sam Lipsyte continues to be everywhere.  This week,he takes a walk through his neighborhood in Queens, ... [Read more]

Political or Not, Useless ID Brings Israeli Punk to Brooklyn

Following sets from obscure punk bands that wouldn't be known on the international stage, Israel's most famous punk export performed in front of about 20 people without a stage. Haifa-based Useless ID is touring the U.S. for the first time in ... [Read more]

Israeli Novel Wins Best Translation Award

There seems to be a renaissance of translated literature in American underway. Maybe it started due to the popularity of the late Chilean scribe Roberto Bolaño's exquisite novel, 2666, but today, a novel by Israeli writer Gail Hareven is being ... [Read more]

Chuck Norris: 70 Year Old Friend of the Jews

Dear Chuck Norris, You are a conservative Christian who has an award for being "Jewish Humanitarian of the Year" (see #4) sitting on a mantle that you surely made with your bare hands.  We aren't sure how you acquired this ... [Read more]

Rick Rubin Top Ten

Rick Rubin turns 47 today, and considering that he has spent the last 30 years being one of the most important and influential figures in music, we figured that calls for a little roundup of the production gurus finest achievements. 10. The ... [Read more]

Long Island! Are You Ready to ROCK?!?

Sadly, it's not in the same sort of rocking that Ted Nugent or Lynyrd Skynyrd does (very sad indeed); it's more of a "rabbi busts into a party for a one year old like a gangbuster, and scares the crap out of everybody". ... [Read more]

One Corey Left

TMZ reports that Corey Haim has passed away.  The son of an Israeli-born computer operator, and a guy named Bernie who "worked sales", will always be remembered as the guy who made only two movies that I really cared about, but ... [Read more]

Jah for Jews?

Maybe this: Explains this: That, we can deal with-- but then we realized that Jews + Jamaica could also be the only explanation for this, and I lost ... [Read more]

And On The 7th Day, God Created 3D Glasses

Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures is planning a 3D adaptation of Genesis, titled In The Beginning.  While I've wished my whole life to watch Adam and Eve cavorting through Eden in fig leaves this close to my face, it looks like my dream ... [Read more]

Obama Gets All Hillel on Our Asses

I could be very wrong here, but there was a little snippet from the presidents speech on health care in Philadelphia yesterday that sounded vaguely familiar.  Here's the breakdown: "My question to them is: When is the right ... [Read more]

Black, Jews, and Seymour Krim

"Oh, not another article on Black-Jewish relations!" is what anyone has the right to feel when the production of books, articles, seminars, and conferences on the subject over the past decades has amounted to what one scholar called ... [Read more]

Kosher Police Blox Lox

You know, I've taken a lot of crap from the Kosher police in my lifetime: marshmallows, select Dunkin' Donuts locations, fancy cheese, and while I was growing up, Oreos! All verboten by the munchy-hatin' rabbis that make the Kosher rules. But ... [Read more]

Social Justice is for Nazis?

At least that's what Glenn Beck says. Even though we simply love old Glenn, Jewcy would like to take a moment and once again ask that pundits  (on both the right and left) to please cease with the Nazi comparisons.  It's tired and ... [Read more]

Rambam Thank You Ma'am

Rabbis from around the world convened on Cairo to open up the recently restored synagogue that Maimonides once taught in. Last year, the Egyptian antiques czar told CNN: "We are doing this because it's a part of our history, it's part ... [Read more]

The Friday Jewce

  I can't comment on the way he dresses, how are you going to deny a doctor from a holy event like the megillah reading? Heeb Magazine picks the best Jewish movie moments. What's this Chatroulette, and why is Jon ... [Read more]

Yiddish is the New Ebonics

Antony Lerman of The Guardian talks about Yiddish not being dead; makes a bunch of statements about Hasidim, Zionism, and karaoke machines.  While it's great of Lerman to discuss this wild and crazy Yiddish resurgence, it's that dry, ... [Read more]

Did I Miss the "National Jewish Music Fest Month" Memo?

Maybe I'm just making this up, but there seem to be a lot of Jewish music festivals coming up in the coming weeks.  The most exciting would have to be the first Boston Music Festival taking place this weekend in Bean Town, begining this ... [Read more]

A pre-Shabbat Blessing: The Larry David Mötorhead Shirt

Available at Shirts & Destroy    [Read more]

How do You get an Orca Stoned?

If you're an organization that promotes conservative Christian values, and you have a really generic name, how do you stand out?  If you're smart (or insane) like American Family Association, you tell Sea World that they must ... [Read more]

The Weekly Yiderati

With his newest book about to be released (The Ask), Sam Lipsyte is everywhere.  In conversation with Michael Kimball at The Faster Times An interview with Black Book Reviewed by the LA Times In New York ... [Read more]