{"id":5791,"date":"2008-10-04T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2008-10-04T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:40:50","slug":"stripping-for-hashem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"Stripping For HaShem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danielle Berrin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\nEmma Forrest<\/div>\n

It’s safe to say that something unprecedented and never before attempted in the history of Judaism took place at “Heeb<\/a> Storytelling” on Sept. 23: During her 7-minute Jewish stand-up routine, writer Emma Forrest<\/a> performed a burlesque strip-tease to Craig Taubman’s L’cha Dodi. There she was—on stage in a knit wrap dress, telling a story about self-loathing and her Jewish looks, when in a burst of bravery she lifted the dress over her head and kick-lined around the stage clad in a red-fringe two-piece. It was like Ziegfeld’s Follies transplanted to M Bar in Hollywood—set to the music of Friday Night Live. <\/p>\n

“Shed your leaves in winter,” she said. “And you come to bud in spring.”<\/p>\n

Forrest wasn’t the only entertainer that evening, just the scene-stealer. The warm British accent, the hot little number and a coterie of fans that included actresses Natalie Portman and Kate Beckinsale as well as her latest flame, Irish-actor Colin Farrell, sporting a Star-of-David dangling from his neck. He looked pleased with her rapturous performance.<\/p>\n

Call it racy or raunchy, but this is the kind of Jewish-is-cool Heeb Magazine, the evening’s sponsor, is all about. As publisher Josh Neuman said in his introduction, “The magazine pushes the notion of what constitutes a Jewish story.” The irreverent, tongue-in-cheek quarterly, more than being artsy or literary, promotes a social element that reframes the way in which young Jews can gather together as a community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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