what would u pay to be in that room? - Handsome Men's Club

worth a watch - efrat gosh (אה אה אה - אפרת גוש)

Born in Herzilyah, Efrat is Israel's answer to the whole Amy Winehouse/Adele/Duffy music genre.

worth a watch - JEWSEY SHORE

you'll probably only appreciate this if you've seen MTV's version...

Mechitzahs & Talleisim - an MO love story

One of the best reasons to go to an MO shul is for the view. You just don't get the same buzz going to a tiny shtiebel where the women's section is somewhere behind floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a concrete wall or thick curtains that never move.
I've been to a few shtiebels where the women sit upstairs in a converted two-family house with only a small hole in the floor and if you strain your ears enough you can almost make out every third word of Kriyas HaTorah. The truth is, you often do get your best davening done in those shtiebelach (unless some nosy shadchan decides to sit next to you and takes the opportunity to try to find out what your father does for a living).
But there are times when you feel like getting all dolled up for shul, and an audience of middle-aged yentas just isn't doing it for you.
When you know you're looking your best, it's way more fun to go an MO shul with a Soloveichik-style mechitzah - it's like the kosher version of a nightclub - you get to see and be seen.
You know what I'm talking about - the number one reason people go to shul is for social reasons (I will admit that might hold more true for women, as we don't have the same obligation to daven with a minyan - so maybe it's number two for men... why else would kiddush clubs exist?).
Sometimes I do get tired of the show - I've actually written about that before. (surely you've read every post I've ever written? All 500-and-counting, right? If not, here it is.) So I don't let myself indulge too often - but when I do, I try to make it worthwhile.
Great views are not only exclusive to MO shuls. One of the best seats a girl will ever get is at the Karliner Shul in Meah Shearim (who woulda thunk!). There the women sit upstairs behind a one-way mirror so that they can watch the men scream out the Shema (they literally yell at the top of their lungs) without risk of being seen. (although, that view is more amusing than gratifying)

The most gratifying Shabboses happen when there's a new cute non-tallis-wearing Potential in town. I really feel for my Sephardi and Yekki friends with this one. Catching the eye of a hot guy only to discover he's only in shul for his daughter's baby naming can be quite a letdown. Why else was the tallis mandated by G-d if not to shield vulnerable young women from similar awkward situations?
Unfortunately nothing can prepare a girl who's still waiting for her beshert for the heartbreak that happens when she makes eye-contact with a total Potential (as she designs her wedding dress in her head during Shacharis) only to discover that - SHOCKER - it's his Aufruf.
Where is this post going? (Sometimes I forget because on here I tend to I write the way I think - which is one huge rambling mess.)
So ya - anyhow - my point is that sometimes a low mechitzah in an MO shul can be the answer to a single girl's prayers (maybe she remembered to say Shir HaShirim for 40 days straight).

worth a watch - black hebrews make music

I was sitting on the bus on the way to Eilat one summer making conversation with this guy in front of me. Turned out he was a Black Hebrew who lived In Dimona. It was probably one of the most interesting conversations of my life - I had never heard of the group before. And then I came across this video on YouTube. Enjoy.

worth a watch - MJ comes back to the Philippines

To celebrate the DVD release of the late Michael Jackson documentary This Is It, Jackson's choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid went to the Cebu Provincial Dentention and Rehabilitation Center and staged this FANTASTIC dance tribute to the pop star with 1500 inmates to "They Don't Really Care About Us."

worth a watch - The Good Guy

because Bryan Greenberg is in it - and he's one of my fave cute young Jewish actors.

I look Like That Guy (music video only) - Ariel Heller and Hal Fickett

Alyssa Milano's Jersey Dove Campaign

'Jersey Shore' hair 101

worth a watch - pole dancer ruins wedding

some people just shouldn't leave the house...

worth a watch - Dear John

because who doesn't want to see Channing Tatum in uniform? and without his shirt :)

worth a watch - NCSY Supermarket Takeover

worth a watch - Tickling Leo

Set around the days of Yom Kippur, Tickling Leo is a contemporary drama that follows three generations of one Jewish family whose secrets threaten to wipe away its future. When he loses touch with his estranged father, Zak Pikler (Daniel Sauli) and his pregnant girlfriend Delphina (Annie Parisse) travel to an abandoned Catskills lake where the eccentric poet Warren Yitzchak Pikler (Lawrence Pressman) is living in solitude and declining health. As Zak copes with his father's dementia, Delphina inadvertently uncovers a secret the Piklers have been hiding since World War II: an impossible sacrifice they made in order to join Rudolph Kasztner’s controversial train out of Hungary.

TICKLING LEO opens in New York on Friday, September 4 and will also be available day and date on DVD and Amazon VOD.

worth a watch - Fame

'Fame' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

worth a watch -All About Steve

I'm just hoping no one I know is like this....

Gotta say - if Bradley Cooper was a yid, maybe I would be like that....

worth a watch - divorce... made fun!

follow-up vid to my fave clip...

Thanks Eliezer!

worth a watch - best wedding ever

worth a watch - Spread

worth a watch - that famous L'Cha Video

This one is really just for old times' sake.
Doesn't watching this make you feel like you're back in yeshiva?
Enjoy!