From the JTA: San Francisco’s Israeli Consul General Akiva Tor called it “the best television we’ve produced in the last decade” and “the ultimate destruction of PC.” He’s talking about “Arab Labor,” the wildly popular and wickedly funny Israeli sit-com about an Arab-Israeli family trying to make their way in the Jewish state. The show’s [...]
There has been a steady stream of soldier dance videos of late, including an Israeli one that stirred some controversy. Here is another Israeli one, this one from Lebanon in 1999, that is one of the best and one of the oldest. (hat tip) Warning: male nudity.
Rabbi Neil Fleischmann has a post on Paul Shaffer and Shaffer’s take on traditional nusah.
Ynet has an article about how during the Omer religious radio stations play lots of a cappella music. While I think that when it comes to Hebrew and Jewish music, Israel beats anything coming out of American hands down, maybe the one area where the American-Jewish hand seems to be on the top is a [...]
Controversies about popular songs are always interesting. In Israel there is one brewing about a song performed by Amir Benayun, אני אחיך. Benayun talks about it here (Hebrew) and here is some political background in order to understand a bit about the song’s creation. These are the lyrics. “אני אחיך” / מילים ולחן: עמיר בניון [...]
The Talmud Blog has a post about some of the more recent episodes of Srugim, addressing the question of the Seven Clean Days. Shai links to an older post of mine which reported an attempt to be more lenient with regard to these days when the timing of a woman’s ovulation made it very difficult [...]
Since the coverage of the visit to Dubai by certain foreigners is sometimes bordering on the comical, and the apparent quick exit to Iran by some of the above mentioned foreign nationals, a little Purim levity is called for. On a serious note, I’ll be glad to have the Mossad borrow my name to kill [...]
Bein Din le-Din has a post on halakhic issues discussed in episodes of Srugim. Last week I ordered the entire first season of Srugim on DVD from Sifrutake. (The Srugim DVD’s aren’t yet on their website, but you can call them and order them.) The DVD’s are in PAL and are Region 2, therefore unwatchable [...]
The Israeli film Ajami has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Film. The NYT’s recently had a very good write up about the movie. Also see this post. Below are two clips.
Here is something for those of you who are looking forward to tonight’s beginning of Lost: The Final Season. (hat tip) Click here for a larger image.
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