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Joan Holloway’s Tushy Is Jewish

Hello! My name is Rachel Shukert. You may remember me from summer camp, where I faked a recurring nut allergy in order to spend most of my time watching Days of our Lives in the air-conditioned infirmary, but I’m also the author of Everything is going to be great, my brand-new memoir of the two mostly disastrous years I spent after ...

Jizz in my pants – the frum edition

Jizz in my pants is an insanely popular SNL skit (99 million views I think) about guys wasting seed and the dangers of not getting that seed where it’s supposed to go. Calm Kallahs has an entire forum about the subject. Anyway, when I thought of this I laughed real hard and kept laughing when I wrote it and then ...

Jewsy Food Goes Mainstream Media

I got to schtick in plenty of Yiddish in this week’s Connect, doing my best to educate Savannah on the ways of the tribe:Here’s an excerpt from “What the @$#! is Rugelach?”, a little overview of this Sunday’s Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival:First of all, you have to say it right. When it comes to Jewish food, “ch” doesn’t sound like ...

Jews to Egypt: We refuse to rebuild the Pyramids

FS News has just learned that the Jews of Egypt and the surrounding countries have just announced that they will refuse to rebuild pyramids if they get destroyed by the violent protests wreaking havoc on Egypt in the last few weeks. The Jews also refused to allow their babies to be used as bricks and their walnuts to be used as mortar.Read ...

Jews Sweep Worst Cooks in America Series!

Joshie the Jew (formerly Hassidic Jew) is on the finale of Worst Cooks in America as I write tonight. What has Chef Anne Burrell chosen for Joshie to make for an entrée? A PORK CHOP with FENNEL SAUSAGE. C’mon, Chef Anne.Have you no mercy? A double treif header? Last season (season 1), a nice Jewess by the name of Rachel ...

Jews should keep religion out of politics

Shocking to find an article written by a frum dude who wants to separate religion and politics – although I disagree with his claim that he has no agenda, his agenda is to get clients and that’s why he wrote this.New York – First of all, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ezra Friedlander, and I am the ...

Jews of Discomfort

Judea Pearl, or Reb Yehudah as I call him, is a UCLA professor of computer science, with a strong interest in artificial intelligence. He is the father of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal writer murdered by Pakistani Muslims. No one can forget his last words. “I am Jewish….My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish….Back in the town of ...

Jews in Odd Places

When I told the people at my Orthodox Jewish high school that I was going to University of Iowa for college people were typically…puzzled. Why would anyone move to Iowa? Where would I go to shul? Where would I meet my beshert? To my shock, and the shock of pretty much everyone I knew in Chicago, going to school in Iowa ...

Jews for Tebow

The Tim Tebow craze is now hotter than ever as the Denver Broncos’ quarterback is shepherding (sorry!) his team into the playoffs. In November I wrote about about how Tim Tebow and his kneeling in public prayer (“Tebowing”) was heating up the discussion of prayer in sports. I had no idea that the Tebowing craze would continue to be such ...

Jews Fighting Jews

Jon Stewart is at it again. It seems like every month or so, they pull out an exclusively Jewish segment that must confuse many of their non-Jewish watchers. And last night was no exception.I didn’t actually know anything about this story prior to the expose last night. But it’s kind of messed up. The Orthodox community (I guess not exclusively ...

Jewish Wrestler Randy Savage Dies

I grew up watching the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on TV. In fact, I even went to three WWF events including Wrestlemania 3 in 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome. My two favorite wrestlers were Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.Randy Savage, who was known as “The Macho Man,” died in a car accident this morning in Florida. Randy’s brother, Lanny Poffo ...

Jewish women: Leaders but not heroes

A sharp piece by Shannon Sarna and Ruthie Warshenbrot take the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to task for the announcement that all five Jewish Community Heroes finalists are men. They wrote:More than half of the 2010 Slingshot organizations are headed by women.More than half of the 2009 Avi Chai Fellows (“the Jewish genius grant”) award winners are women. ...