Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy

B and H photo and video superstore is in my opinion one of the biggest Kiddush Hashem’s that is out there. Its rare that you see such a Kiddush Hashem that is able to take place on a daily basis and touch so many hearts and souls. I went to B and H right before my trip to Spain and Israel, my laptop is nearing 7 years old, in techno years its certifiably ancient, with an 80 gig hard drive and no webcam or built in mic. [Read more →]

Cross Posted at My Jewish learning – complete with linkbacks

My roommate and I slept right through the alarm and woke up just in time to realize that we had missed out on the lavish morning food offerings. Like all Jewish events, this one revolves around food and endless talking.

New Media Track Session Number 2 started at 10 A.M. There would be a total of 4 track sessions which allowed the members of one track to sit with the track leader and talk about the issues facing their project development and general ideas, strategy and philosophy. [Read more →]

By far my favorite activity to do in Jerusalem is people watch, and my favorite people to watch are Baal Teshuvas. For many BT’s it is their first taste of Judaism and the place in which they ultimately drink the punch. Maybe they joined our cult back in the states at a college Hillel or Chabad, but Israel gives them a chance to let their true BT colors fly, and picking them out of a crowd of completely secular Birthright kids is one amazing sight. [Read more →]

This piece was cross posted on My Jewish Learning and has links to the people and projects mentioned imbeded, I was  bit lazy in copying and pasting it from there to here.

I couldn’t sleep last night. It may have been the excitement, or maybe it was the fact that my roommate took the good bed and I had the couch. I don’t mind couches much, especially ones with big flatscreen TVs facing them and nice comforters that stay cold in summer, but there was this flashing smoke detector light giving me fuzzy green visions every time I was about to fall into a blissful sleep. [Read more →]

Below is footage taken from the peaceful Charedi protest of the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on that same day. I said tehillim, met some friends and when there was no rioting we left and went to the actual parade which sucked and had no real flamboyantly gay people, which come out in droves for parades in America. [Read more →]

Jacob Da Jew has an important post about the state of Tznius in the frum community, the problem is not that people aren’t adhering to the laws, the problem is in the form of random notes distributed by random people in scare tactic form to get them to adhere to a stricter sense of modesty. [Read more →]

For those of you who don’t know, I wasn’t flown to Israel to perform at a comedy club in Jerusalem, I am just not that good, I was flown to Israel to participate in the ROI Summit which is a collection of 120 of the best young Jewish innovators from around the world, ages 22-34. Best is relative and as of this year the best from last year cannot be considered the best this year, kind of weird, since the sexiest people or best actors can be the best or sexiest multiple years in a row. [Read more →]

I bid good bye to my friend Josh at Kikar Shabbat, we had expected some riots, but there were none and we both turned toward home, let down by the seemingly non-violence of the Charedim. I walked toward the Beis Yisroel neighborhood and he towards Nachlaot. When I got to the alleyway I had memorized as my turnoff based on the Tuna Beigel bumper sticker plastered across the street sign [Read more →]

I landed in Israel and just told the sharoot guy to let me off at the shuk, I had rugalechs and shawarma on my mind, I hadn’t eaten a real meal save for the airplane food in 3 days and it was time to pig out. I turned on my phone and realized that my brother had left an Italian SIM card in the thing instead of an Israeli one, and so the cell number I plastered all over my Facebook account was false and I had no way to reach anyone so I could find a place to stay for the night. [Read more →]