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Kitser: 05/05/11
We’re almost positive you’re new here, in which case you should totally say hi to us. Thank you for visiting and we welcome your comments!
- It is Cinco de Mayo (my personal favorite Mexican holiday not celebrated by Mexicans)! Tablet drops some Mexi-Jewish knowledge on you while Jewcy cuts to the chase and tells you what tequila to buy. L’chaim!
- Buttressing Ben Aqua’s portraits, Mister Mort
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Kitser: 05/04/11
- The UT Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies raised a nice chunk of change–10 million to be precise.
- We are in Texas sometimes talking about stuff in Israel. The favor is returned! (via David A.M. Wilensky–thanks!)
- The front runner in Egypt’s election hates Israel. In fact, he’s made a large part of his rep based on that fact. If you think that allure is confusing when there are so
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
by Naomi Baldinger
There’s always a moment when things could have gone differently altogether. If you hadn’t gone to that party, you wouldn’t have totaled your car on the way home. But you also never would have met the (current) love of your life.
Traumatic events render the “what ifs” all the more fraught. In the Israeli writer-director Omri Givon’s2008 film Seven Minutes in Heaven (Sheva dakot be gan eden), those tiny, pivotal moments make the difference between life and» Continue reading
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Yom HaShoah
by Mike Wachs
On September 11th, I was in a studio art class drawing something of very little quality with charcoal. NPR broke into the middle of a recorded piece to report on a plane that hit the World Trade Center. Everyone was confused; our teacher told us to get back to work. Then the second plane hit. I ran into the hall to call one of my best friends who was supposed to fly out of Boston that day.» Continue reading
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Portraits of Rabbi Levertov and His Family
Photographer Ben Aqua took some portraits of Rabbi Levertov and his family at the beginning of Pesach, capturing lighthearted bits of life that people sometimes forget are a part of any family’s life–no matter how orthodox they may be in their beliefs.
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Long Reads Wednesday: 04/06/11
- Before you settle in to read for awhile, you should vote for local food blogger/mench-ette Jodi Bart to win the Whole Foods Foodie Fantasy contest. You can vote everyday till the 15th!
- Allison Hoffman takes a peak into Persian Jewish life in L.A. It’s heartening to know that no matter what trivial differences separate us, we are all pumped about the free snacks at the end of Shabbat services. Does anyone know if Austin has a
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Kitser: 04/04/11
- The Austin Jewish Film Festival starts Thursday! Do you have any idea how rad it would be if you wrote for Git Nu about some of the films showing??? Real rad.
- Baytown, Texas has a new-old synagogue!
- The Forward posted about some Jewish to pseudo-Jewish–though not always Kosher–eats in our fair city of Austin.
- Judge Goldstone has retracted some of the harshest bits of his Goldstone Report. Follow up from Marc
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Kitser: 3/11/11
- You don’t even know how real the The Texas-Israeli War of 1999 got.
- It’s SXSW! There is an official Israeli set of events and a panel on Jewish Synergy in Social Media. Plus–tonight!–there’s a Shabbat meal!
- How rabbis viewed slavery during the Civil War.
- Last week’s This American Life was extra Semitic and had the bizarre, fascinating story of Holocaust survivor unwittingly reliving her memories in
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Kitser: 03/01/11
- More on the Oscar winning documentary about the Tel Aviv school.
- Charlie Sheen Demands Apology from ADL. Great headline.
- Influential Beat Jay Landesman passed away at 91.
- A short, not-very-informative letter from the Jewlicious festival in Long Beach.
- A long, informative letter from the J Street conference.
- Bethlehem Shoals profiles NBA commissioner David Stern. This doesn’t really tie into Austin or the Jewish community at large, but the NBA is fantastic.
- Long read Wednesday–coming tomorrow!
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