Just when I finally got Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” out of my head, Jewish singing troupe Six13 puts THIS on the seder plate: AWESOME. Now I’ll spend the next eight days and nights murmuring “Changin’ my pots and pans…gotta have Manischewitz … Continue reading
Look, I’m no intellectual giant. I have to check every “virus alert” on Snopes.com. I follow shiny things into sewers. I bob my head to the terrible pop music I’m subjected to while driving Hebrew school carpool. And as you … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of their Purim hit “Raise Your Mask,” the Ein Prat Fountainheads once again transform a pop song (in this case, two) into a rockin’ way to celebrate a Jewish holiday: Even Cee Lo Green has to … Continue reading
Reuters just published a heads-up to the genre featuring Latin-flava’d Hip Hop Hoodios and Matisyahu (which is an arguable inclusion, ’cause Matis falls more into his own personal category of “Chassidic dub reggae.”) The article attempts to distill the true … Continue reading
Though he retired around Passover this year, 50 Shekel, formerly touted as the “World’s Most Kosher MC” for his “In Da Shul” parody of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club’, has been born again. As in Born Again. As in he’s … Continue reading
Oh, you know I love me some Jewish parody, and it’s been a looong time since one has made me chortle like this spin-off from a bunch of hilarious Israeli Russians in Tel Aviv. Then again, I laugh at Little … Continue reading
I think we all know how I feel about Jewish parodies. If they’re good, I’ll chuckle along. If they suck, I’m not going to mince words. I warned Rob Tannenbaum of WhatILikeAboutJew that I can be nasty bee-otch as such, … Continue reading
Y’all know how I feel about bad Jewish parody rap; I somehow feel it is my divine duty to help you distinguish between “crap rap” and honest-to-Hashem Jewish hip-hop. These dudes, going by the moniker Chutzpah, have been receiving huge … Continue reading
So I was lamenting the dearth of Rosh Hashanah parodies on Twitter recently (do you follow @yoyenta? Please do!) and lo and behold, my mother sends me a link to this. While it has nothing to do with the Days … Continue reading
Rosh Hashanah begins tonight at sundown, and I see no better way to send out 5774 with a bridge between our our sacred traditions and Top 40 pop songs. Not everyone agrees. All morning I drove the kids crazy by … Continue reading