Looking at the amount of time since my last post is seriously embarrassing. But real life got in the way.
Nevermind that, I made a YouTube channel! Now, each new episode of OMGWTFBIBLE will be posted on YouTube as an audio-only thingie so you can share it everywhere as easily as possible. And I can embed them here, like I did just now. Wowzers!
Also, here’s a playlist of ALL THE EPISODES!
Don’t Talk to Women
Jacqueline Nicholls’ beautiful paper-cut doilies, called The Ladies Guild Collection, take some of the more obviously misogynist passages of Jewish literature (like the one above) and turn them into works of art. The level of detail in the borders of these pieces is incredible. The entire collection is certainly worth exploring.
Oh, and she’s drawing the entire Talmud one page at a time. Seriously, Jacquline Nicholls is a cool lady. Read her interview on Jewcy.
As always, Garfunkel and Oates nail it. Watch the whole thing. The last line is priceless.
There is a guy who calls himself “The Fat Jew.” Apparently, he has been using New York’s ubiquitous CitiBike racks (which I love, by the way) to offer free cardio classes to homeless folks. Ok! Here is a video:
Is this insulting? I don’t know, maybe a little.
<h/t: Jewcy>
Have you heard? A 13 year-old kid from Queens won the Scripps National Spelling Bee today on the word “knaidel!” You know, a matzoh ball!
Wait a minute. Something smells fishy. And it’s not the fish balls. You’ll never see one of those near my chicken soup.
After spending most of yesterday trying to figure out the most clear transliterations of Jacob’s grandsons, I can assure you: there’s more than one way to spell “knaidel.” Or is it “knaidel”? “Kneydel”? “K’naydell”?
Have a good shabbos, I guess! Er, I mean, shabbot shalom!
Check it out! Some official OMGWTFBIBLE propaganda has been printed and is ready to be handed to unsuspecting commuters. If you want some brochures of your very own, show up Monday for Chapter 8, where I’ll be giving these out to all audience members.
Chasid-in-a-bag
Well, this definitely isn’t in the Torah. Yesterday, a redditor posted this image of a Chasid wrapped in a plastic bag aboard an airplane. The poster assumed it was to avoid touching women, which while TOTALLY INSANE, is not really that crazy an assumption. Another was quick to point out that this was likely a Kohen (or priest) protecting himself from the impurity he’d pick up from flying 40,000 feet over a cemetary. And that this solution was prescribed by the venerable Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv. OK!
Isn’t kind of a suffocation hazard? What will this dude say when his children start hanging out in plastic bags and tell him “we learned it from watching YOU!”?
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