Vampire Weekend’s New Single Asserts That Zion Doesn’t Love You

May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I think of Vampire Weekend as a disaffected art rock band, but do they have a spiritual side? Their latest single, “Ya Hey” (a pun on one of the Jewish names for G-d, Yahweh) contains quite a few spiritual lyrics, like “Zion doesn’t love you/and Babylon don’t love you,” and refers to whoever “you” is [...]

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When Judaism Met Omar from ‘The Wire’

April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The period between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot is known as the omer. Religious Jews will count down these 49 days, aka “counting the omer.” But the omer just became way more fun thanks to a new Tumblr called Counting the Omar, which posts a different picture of Omar Little from the TV [...]

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This Picture from Mauricio Umansky’s Bar Mitzvah Is My Everything

March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Mauricio Umansky, real estate agent to the stars and husband of Kyle Richards, is one of my favorite Real Housewives husbands. And this photo, of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star at his bar mitzvah in his native Mexico City, is entertaining beyond words. Can’t you just hear him saying “And today I am [...]

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