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11 Days Left!
There are just 11 days left to donate to OMGWTFBIBLE’s IndieGogo campaign! Head here now to help me keep this show going. Every donor from now until the end of the campaign will be automatically entered into a drawing for a $200 gift certificate to Fluent City!
Exodus Live Premiere
EXODUS IS COMING
I am kicking off Exodus on August 25th with Special Guest Mordechai Levovitz of Jewish Queer Youth. It’s going to be spectacular! And a little longer than usual! Check out the Facebook event here!
OMGWTFBIBLE Live / Mordechai Levovitz
Beauty Bar
231 E. 14th Street
August 25th; 8:00 PM
FREE!
21+
FREE FOOD
OMGWTFBIBLE is Going to England!
I’m very excited to announce that I’m going to be doing a live episode of OMGWTFBIBLE from Warwick, England at this year’s Limmud Conference sometime between December 28, 2014 to January 1, 2015. Limmud is an international organization dedicated to fostering new approaches to Judaism and I am honored to be among their presenters.
There are still a ton of details to work out, including the actual date of the show and the guest, but I can’t wait to bring OMGWTFBIBLE to the other side of the Atlantic.
Oh, and I kinda sorta need your help to pay for my airfare. So please donate at the Indiegogo!
UPDATE: I don’t need your help getting to Limmud because they are a very generous organization and are paying for my transportation! Oops! I don’t know how I got that wrong! Sorry for the confusion, everyone!
Still, if you’re going to Limmud UK, please come to see me live! It’s going to be very cool!
Learn a Language with Fluent City and Read the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
Partner #1: Fluent City
Fluent City offers outstanding adult language classes in major cities throughout the United States and wants to help you learn a new language (and maybe even translate the Bible yourself). And to help, they’re offering a chance at winning a FREE $200 Gift Certificate for language classes to anyone who donates to the OMGWTFBIBLE Indiegogo campaign in its last 30 days. Just go here, donate RIGHT NOW at ANY LEVEL, and you’ll be entered to win.
But that’s not all. Fluent City is also a special discount just for OMGWTFBIBLE listeners. Visit www.fluentcity.com and pick a Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Russian class. During checkout, use OMGWTFBIBLE as the promo code for 15% off your group class. Don’t miss out – code expires August 25, 2014!
Partner #2: Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
Until the print version of OMGWTFBIBLE comes out at some hazy date in the future (and even when it does), the best place in the world to find all the wacky and weird stuff in the Bible is in the pages of the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible by Steve Wells. That’s why OMGWTFBIBLE has teamed up with SAB Books to offer a signed copy of the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible at the $54 perk level. But hurry! There are only 16 of this perk available, so don’t wait to grab it here.
Sponsor An Episode!
There’s a new perk up at the OMGWTFBIBLE Indiegogo! Now, if you donate $250 or more, you can be the official sponsor for an entire Exodus episode! That means you get a mug, a T-shirt, and you get an episode dedicated to you. Your name will be plastered all over it, you’ll get to chat with me for 30 minutes over Skype (or phone) beforehand, and you’ll get the official script used on stage. But hurry! There are only 11 of this perk available!
Shalom, OMGWTFBIBLE!
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s a lot of crazy sex stuff in Genesis. I recently spoke with Andria Kaplan of Shalom Life for her #LoveJewce column about the weirdest, most provocative stuff. It’s all in the article there, so please check it out! For my part, I had this to say about rewriting the Bible:
“As Jews, our tradition of weekly Torah reading makes us all a part of the world’s longest-running book club,” Tuchman tells me in an exclusive interview. “I believe that reading it together and sharing our experience of the text and how it relates to our lives is central to our faith and can bring us closer together. With OMGWTFBIBLE, I’m hoping that I’m making that a little bit more fun.”
A least a little.
Jews Censor the Bible
A censored version of the book of Genesis.
I think the Hasidim are starting to catch on to how crazy the Torah is. According to FailedMessiah, the Skvere community of Hasidim in New Square, New York has created a somewhat pared-down version of the Five Books of Moses to use at their Bais Tziporah girls school.
This version has removed some of the more racy stuff from the story. Y’know, like the dual narratives of the creation of the world, the story of Eden, all that Cain and Abel stuff, and the flood. FailedMessiah suggests that it’s because these stories are about *GASP* people who aren’t “Jewish.”
Also kept out are the stories of Yehudah, Tamar, Er, and Onan (Episode 18) and of Yoseph and Potiphar’s woman (also Episode 18!). Shockingly, the story of Dinah is left in (Episode 16), presumably to warn young Jewish women of the dangers of loving uncircumcised men.
If you can read Hebrew, you can tell what’s missing here (the whole Potiphar thing).
People sometimes tell me my podcast is inappropriate. It’s not my show that’s inappropriate, it’s the Bible.
<h/t: Motti Schleider>
Episode 22
Behold! The extra-long Genesis Finale Episode 22 of OMGWTFBIBLE with a whole pile of guests is now available!
This episode was recorded at Beauty Bar in New York City.
There are so many ways to listen to Episode 22!
You can listen using the SoundCloud thingie above or by downloading here. Explore our SoundCloud and listen to past episodes here.
You can also: subscribe in iTunes, subscribe via RSS, or listen via Stitcher!
Here Is A Boy In A Kippa Making Dick Jokes
Ok, sure! I could write something cute here about upending expectations based on appearances or about a Modern Orthodox kid telling these jokes to Howard Stern and Howie Mandel or about how there are only three jokes but instead I’ll just leave you with my favorite piece of this:
“I love comedians!” – Heidi Klum
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