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Mashup: Lech Lecha, Creepy Bible Videos, Chuck Norris, American Beauty

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Welcome to Torah Video Mashup, where we bring you the weekly Torah portion as told by your favorite viral YouTube videos.

People complain that our society is going totally ADD, especially when it comes to education. Who knows? Maybe this video is too long. Maybe it would be better if the story of Abraham and Sarah were just a crummy iMovie trailer…

So that’s cool, but you haven’t learned anything. So let’s do this in short chapters.

God then told Abram to leave his country and his father’s house for a land that He would show him, promising to make of him a great nation, bless him, make his name great, bless those who blessed him, and curse those who cursed him. That land of course is Canaan, AKA Israel. I wonder if Abraham’s vision came to him like this Israeli tourism video?

There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that [Read more…]

PunkTorah Podcast: Kirtan Rabbi & The End of the Jews

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This month’s podcast features two amazing special guests: Kirtan Rabbi(aka Rabbi Andrew Hahn) and Dan Mendelsohn Aviv, professor and author of the book End Of The Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes And What Comes Next. Our guests wax poetic about spirituality, post-denominational Judaism and more. Music from the band Mommy and Daddy.

All this and more in this week’s PunkTorah Podcast.

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Mashup: Parshah Bereishit, Honey Badger and Numa Numa

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It’s a new year and it’s time for new videos from PunkTorah. Circle Pit the Bimah set the bar really high (thanks Jeremiah!) and it’s tough to meet that challenge.

But this year at PunkTorah, we’re doing something different. This year, we’re using using your favorite viral videos from around the intertubes to tell the stories of the Torah. Videos will be narrated by Patrick Aleph, and anyone else who wants to volunteer!

In Bereishit, we learn that Adam and Eve were stuck in “the friend zone”, that the snake in the Garden of Eden really should have been a honey badger, and that being Jewish requires a higher attention span than the infamous Numa Numa video demands.

Watch and learn! And be sure to comment below.

PunkTorah Radio: Shmini Atzeret + Simchat Torah Musical Duets

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Since Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are like the ultimate Jewish holiday duet, this musical podcast features cool duets by The Raveonettes, Dubb Nubb, The White Stripes, Crystal Castles and more. Special thanks to Don Kramer who called into the show!

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Punk Maggid: Sacred Stories

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Joey B’Shalom, working as the Punk Maggid, lives to help other Jews grab onto the awesomeness that is the Divine Holy Wow, aka G-d, through telling Jewish stories, wrestling with Torah, and reinterpreting Jewish ritual for the 21st century. She lives in Portland, OR, with her ridiculously amazing partner and their four spectacular teenagers.

Every month on PunkTorah, Punk Maggid will be posting one of her exciting, engaging tales.

This month’s story, entitled Sacred Stories, is described as follows:

The Men of the Great Assembly decided what would be part of our Torah and what wouldn’t. But when they were done deciding, something totally unexpected happened that rocked their world. “Sacred Stories” is about what happens when we try to limit Torah to what we think we already know. And it’s about adding our voices to the great Jewish conversation that spans the centuries.

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