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The Jewnas Brothers
Thanks to Heeb for tipping me off to The Moshiach Times Band, a group of teenybopper hunks out of Miami. Look at that skinny jean/Tzitzit combo!
Heeb Loves Soulico!
Our friends over at Heeb just posted a great Soulico writeup, focusing on the new record and the subsequent US tour. You can check it out HERE. Full text below the cut.
“Even though half of Soulico’s music is in Hebrew, at their Mercury Lounge show in New York City, even the listless hipsters were grooving as DJ Rob egged them on: “Yes, yes, remember, ehhhhhh . . . dancing makes you smarter.”"
HEEB Reviews Girls in Trouble
Heeb just posted a great Girls in Trouble review! Check it out HERE. Full text under the cut, but here’s an excerpt:
“In her songs Alicia Jo Rabins (also fiddle player for the band Golem) illuminates these characters’ stories with great insight and disarming indie fiddle-folk melodies. If you haven’t read the Bible since Hebrew school, her powerful, poetic details will make you pull it down off the shelf. With her dreamy voice, Rabin makes ancient spiritual conundrums and predicaments understandable and fresh while still respecting the mystery of the original stories.”"
Close Encounters of the Chai Kind
Never ones to pass up an opportunity to be wacky, Heeb just released a list of Jews they say are from another planet. Among them are some of the weirder Yids, like Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Amy Winehouse and Milton Berle, but I think they’ve missed a few.
Below, our choices for chosen ones from space:
With a voice that couldn’t be from anywhere on Earth, our first pick goes to Comedian Gilbert Gottfried. IMDB says he’s from Brooklyn, but we seriously doubt it.
Most amazing job opportunity
I was able to start JDub because I won the Jewish lottery. That was how we used to refer to recipients of the Joshua Venture Fellowship, a 2 year program/grant for “Jewish social entrepreneurs” that provided 16 of us with over $60,000 in seed funding, retreats, technical support, and organizational consultants. Joshua Venture’s support of JDub, Heeb, Keshet, Just Vision, Storahtelling, JPEF, Sharsheret, and The Hub brought these organizations to life. In JDub’s case, JV not only provided these vital resources, but also the validation we needed to bring other supporters to the table. Without JV, we would not exist. Now, after 4 dormant years, JV is back and hiring!
The Program and Administrative Associate will be a critical member of Joshua Venture’s small team and work under the supervision of the Executive Director, Lisa Lepson. The ideal candidate will manage administrative duties while taking on greater roles in program planning, meeting and retreat coordination, and stakeholder communications. Because Joshua Venture is in an early stage of development, there will be great opportunity for responsibility, impact, and learning.
Learn lots more after the jump. And yes, this means you Jewish social entrepreneurs can start prepping your applications…
Does the Christian hipster have a Jewish parallel?
Today I came across an item on The Daily Swarm about Christian Hipsters. According to the article (cribbed from Conversant Life), Christian Hipsters are more sincere than their secular counterparts, but not naive (or uninterested in) the world around them. They are apparently disenchanted with institutionalized norms and bureaucracy within Christian institutions and cheesy outreach attempts by older generations (and their “mainstream” peers) to “engage” them.
Sound familiar?
I’m not sure Jewish Hipster is a moniker anyone (other than Lisa Alculay Klug) would openly own or identify with, but I think some parallels do stand out. The main difference, as I can discern it, is that Christian hipsters are still fundamentally deeply connected to Christianity as a religion, even as they may engage it as a culture. I’m not sure most young Jews reading Heeb, going on Birthright, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, or listening to Golem necessarily feel the same way about their Judaism. Sure, we have the religious enthusiasts behind Shemspeed and Jewlicious among us, but, at least by the numbers, they do not seem representative. But maybe I have it wrong? What’s your take?