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Archive for August 11th, 2009
Heeb Magazine Game Solves Shidduch Crisis!
Fine, the Rosanne-Hitler issue was pretty edgy – but it’s hardly something that would keep me from reading Heeb Magazine religiously.
While perusing the pages of the Heebiest of Heebster articles, I happened across a curious-looking game called HiJinx. Not only is HiJinx a fun game to play if your draidel loses a shin, but it can single-handedly solve the Shidduch Crisis that has plagued our community.
If only we can figure out the code…
Check out HiJinx here:
http://www.heebmagazine.com/hijinx
11
08 2009
When Rabbis Fly – Swine Flu Dies
Swine Flu
Some 50 rabbis from across Israel boarded a plane, and conducted an airborne prayer in the hopes to cure swine flu.
The Yediot Ahronot daily said a plane with 50 people on board circled over Israel on Monday, with the passengers chanting prayers and sounding the Shofar.
Of course – the rabbis all flew in the plane because they wanted to be closer to G-d so he could hear them! Because G-d is up!
11
08 2009
Tarantino Shows Badass Jewery In 'Basterds'
Tarantino is known for his badass conscious-lacking or alternative-morals borderline-insane-yet-shockingly-relateable characters. Which is why I was so pleased to see him portraying Jewish Revolt in the face of the greatest genocide since – well – the last anti-Jewish genocide.
As TheAtlantic.com points out very insightfully, NO JEW could have possibly portrayed the Jewish community during the Holocaust as Tarantino has. It’s too sad a topic – and ’sinister’ is not exactly the emotion that springs to mind when a Jew thinks about Nazi Germany – unless they’re thinking about the Germans.
Tarantino, however, has been able to take the Jewish perspective of the Holocaust – and turn it completely badass! Jews running around killing ‘Naazis” (my impression of Brad Pitt’s southern accent in the film) with absolutely no regard or consideration for the Nazi’s humanity (justifiably so!), is absolutely beautiful. Watching an “Ubermentsch” on his knees getting slugged full-force in the head like a tee-ball is exactly what any Jew needs to really visually express what we’ve been feeling for years.