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

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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

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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

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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

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