Jewish Pride at Shamrockfest

I attended Shamrockfest, a massive Celtic-rock festival at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., this past weekend. During the opening set by Celtic-punk band Charm City Saints, an audience member wearing a NOFX sweatshirt shouted "The ... [Read more]

Israeli Nationalist Mounts Pathetic Attempt to Date Bar Refaeli

Baruch Marzel and his friends at Lehava sent Bar Rafaeli a letter asking her to dump her loser boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio.  Using some very Goebbelsesque phrasing, the people at Lehava put it bluntly, asking the supermodel not to ... [Read more]

Jewish Banker FAIL

Dear conspiracy theorist, You might think we rule all the banks, but to ease your mind a little bit, here is some proof that we don't always necessarily know how to run them.  "Real estate developer Shaya Boymelgreen's Web site ... [Read more]

The Weekly Lipa

This week, Lipa Schmeltzer gave us far more than his standard misspelled and gramatically incoherent tweets. Through the God that is Twitter, he provided us with news that he has recently published a Passover Hagadah, linking to a yidenglish ... [Read more]

Bad Jew Gives up Saturday Brunch: God Doesn't Care

From the New York Times: "About a decade ago I developed a full-blown weekend disorder of my own. Perhaps because I am Jewish, it came on Friday nights. My mood would darken until, by Saturday afternoon, I'd be unresponsive and morose. ... [Read more]

Is James Brown Moshiach?

James Brown's dead body is missing; here are our guesses: 1.  His body has been stolen 2.  Zombie James Brown is walking the streets right now. 3.  James Brown is Moshiach.  If number three is the case, you have very little time ... [Read more]

A Pre-Shabbat Blessing: The Warren Zevon Séance

Saturday night in New York City, a group of young mystics will try to revive the spirit of the songwriter who everybody from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen name checked, and respected: Warren Zevon (son of Jewish boxer, William ... [Read more]

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]