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Category Archives: JConnect LA
Guys With Yarmulkes Dancing With Girls
I’m at the JConnectLA party tonight. About a quarter of the crowd is nominally Orthodox. Many of them dance with the opposite sex. Many of them are my friends. I watch them swaying with their yarmulkes and I notice that … Continue reading
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The Maimonides Of Pick-Up Artists
JConnectLA‘s Tu B’Av love party at 7174 Melrose Blvd is jammed. I haven’t gotten any sleep for days. I’m stumbling around, feeling old and lost and claustrophobic, yet people keep coming up to me and telling me what amazing energy … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA, Personal
Tagged epiccenter, JDate, lyn paul, manishevitz, sharabi, shuls
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Where The Girls At?
I primarily go to yoga for the awesome spiritual insights but many of my less enlightened male friends go for the girls. So which kundalini yoga studio has the hottest chicks wearing the tightest outfits? Golden Bridge by far over … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, JConnect LA, Yoga
Tagged chicks, golden bridge, high school graduates, jewish populations, male friends, observant jews, orthodox judaism, orthodox synagogue, spiritual insights, yoga studio
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JConnectLA’s Tu’B’Av Party Thursday Night
The first two pictures (all my pictures are taken in lousy light with my new Blackberry Curve) are from The Eighth Day band: Michael Taviv, JConnectLA director: Helen Jupiter, managing editor of Jewcy.com, with her manly man: Luke Ford and … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA
Tagged blackberry curve, Jewcy, luke ford, Moshav Band, orthodox rabbi, philanderer
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‘I Have Never Forgotten You’
On Tisha B’Av, it is the Jewish way not to greet each other. As I walked around this Tisha B’Av, I kept asking myself, "How is this day different from all other days?" In Luke Ford Land, it is always … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA
Tagged Museum of Tolerance, orthodox rabbi, rabbi marvin hier, simon weisenthal, vip tour
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LA’s Love Fest
Rabbi Yonah writes on jewlicious.com: Before speed dating, J-Date, Valentines Day or Sadie Hawkins Day, there was the original ancient Love Holiday -Tu B’Av. Jewish maidelach and suitors went out into the fields to see and be seen, really, the … Continue reading
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Tagged cool jew, eric rosen, fall of jerusalem, mystic rhythms, sadie hawkins day, taglit birthright israel
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The Lag B’Omer Party Thursday Night
From JConnectLA: "Come one, come all, let LA Jews unite on this special night! WHEN: Thursday, May 22nd 6pm to 10pm WHERE: Dockweiler Beach – 12000 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey WHAT: Bonfire, BBQ, Live music & jam session … Continue reading
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Tagged 6pm, amp, bonfire, dockweiler beach, jam session, Jews, lag b omer, Music, own instruments, playa del rey, thursday night, vista del mar
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JConnectLA Friday Night
Workmen’s Circle. 6:20 p.m. I’m the second person to arrive. It’s my first Shabbat in over eight years without my black undertaker suit. Instead I’m wearing this striped ill-fitting number I got for $20 from the Jewish thrift store on … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA, Personal
Tagged Alcohol, bima, boss, daven, davening, floating in outer space, friday night, ground control, heart, jconnect, joyful noise, major tom to ground control, minyan, mizel, peculiar way, planet earth, prayers, Sabbath, second person, sermon, shabbat, shlomo carlebach, starman, stunning dress, thrift store, undertaker, workmen
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JConnectLA’s Friday Night Dinner Features Special Guest Speaker Eva Braun On “Living Life After The Holocaust”
Click here to see the flyer. Conventional history depicts Eva Braun as Hitler’s witless girlfriend who committed suicide with him in the bunker in 1945. JConnectLA has discovered the rest of the story. Yes, Eva did die with Adolf that … Continue reading
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Purimpalooza V – Party at the Palace!
Jconnect LA invites you to travel with us to the Persian Empire in the year 370 BCE, to the palace of King Achashverosh, where we will relive the Purim story and become a part of history. This will be a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 tribes, achashverosh, costume contest, dietary laws, dj eric, eric rosen, Hillel, jconnect, jewlicious, legendary experience, light refreshments, megillah, meir panim, party at the palace, persian empire, pico blvd, Purim, purim story, purimpalooza, zoa
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