Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
This article is the fifth in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time. Life has been rough the past twenty-one years. Never a single visit from the big…
This article is the second in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time. Dear Hashem, Even though Thanksgiving is over, I still have things to thank you for. Thank…
It’s December and that means finals. Finals finals finals. So, I have taken it upon myself to provide you all with as much fun/distraction as I can during the next two weeks. Welcome to Procratination Ha’Yom, a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that…
They say that nothing goes better together than red wine and pecan-crusted goat cheese. I agreed, until I saw this. That’s right: Gymnamstyle. In this latest parody of the K-pop classic, golden girl Aly Raisman shakes her sequined booty to Psy’s majestic techno-trills. The self-made video is set in a North Carolina hospital’s cancer-unit, and then cuts…
In college, or at least my college, we learn about gender and sexuality. A lot. We learn of its performative nature, its implications in the underlying structures that we live in, and its complex ties to governance, capitalism, and production. We learn how it is oppressive and offensive and limiting. We learn how the role…
My older brother got to read Portnoy’s Complaint his Senior year of high school, and it was a big deal. I imagine that it was only allowed on the curriculum because his English teacher was one of those slick haired PHD types who didn’t really give a fuck– he just wanted to teach. It was…
As a previous summer resident of Trendyville, Brooklyn, the running joke throughout my stay revolved around the aesthetically similar but culturally dichotomous comparisons of the facial hair of secular and religious men. A clearer way to say this? The proliferation of Hasid vs. Hipster hirsute jokes. And let me tell you, they were (and are)…
There are few things that I love more than Obama’s Horses and Bayonets line in last night’s debate. One of those things are the cheese quesadillas that my roommate makes almost nightly as a College-Is-Fucking-Stressful snack. The other is Bulletproof Stockings. No no, I’m not referring to a new military-chic phenomena of stockings that can shield…
Who could have predicted that LMFAO’s 2009 Top Forty Hit would actually later double as the soundtrack for our 2012 presidential debate season? Such keen cultural insight, such profound political understanding. Debate drinking games are all the rage right now. Facebook statuses and Twitter references are aflood. To give a brief historical overview of the…
This post may be short, but it’s vital: I needed to update you all on what I think is the best internet invention since the 2008 Bush Presidency Count-Down Clock (oops, now I just gave away my political views). The holiday season has been particularly brutal this year– and I don’t mean by way of engorgement. The…
Heyyyy wealthy ladies! That’s right. K-pop and American politics have finally mated. The result? Mitt Romney Style. As the Gagnam Style parody videos continue their hailstorm through the interwebs, a political one of note has begun to make its rounds. Created by the often hit or miss humor site, College Humor, it has the sophisticated…
And she’s at it again. After making headlines last Monday for her quick smooch outside a Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, Anne Hathaway is back in the spotlight. But this time, she got married. Former cat seductress Anne Hathaway tied the knot this past Saturday night with Jewish fiancé Adam Shulman, much to everyone’s surprise (okay, by…
So, Rosh Hashana is over. Your excuse to not go attend classes for “religious reasons” is moot for the next ten days. The crazy fruits have been eaten, the apple-themed shul outfits have been worn, and your ears are a bit hung over from their shofar drunk. But wait, what do you do with all…