Featured Contestants:

Chutzpah – Georgetown University • Jewish Fella A Cappella – Brandeis University• Kaskeset – SUNY Bignhamton •Kol Neshama – York University • Kol Sasson – University of Maryland • Mezumenet – University of Maryland • Rak Shalom – University of Maryland • Shabbatones – University of Pennsylvania • Staam – Washington University of St. Louis • Tizmoret – Queens College

A cappella music is sweeping the country. Thanks to popular TV shows like Glee, Sing Off, and American Idol, it is now cool to be a singer and hip to go without accompaniment. Each year, more high school and colleges boast a cappella groups and more groups challenge each other in national competitions. But in the Jewish World, there has never been a national a cappella competition… until now!

Get your tickets online! http://kolhaolam.org

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10:00-11:00 am early childhood justice carnival (ages 0-5)
11:00 am mini-megillah
11:30 am family justice carnival
Come Costumed!
Night The Ghouls rockin’ Sunday morning
$15 for IKAR kid members, $20 for non-members (adult admission included)
tickets at the door.

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8:15 pm megillah & shpiel / 10:00 pm adult Justice carnival

Come Costumed! DJs Solemite and Mudfoot spinning Saturday
Saturday: $20 for IKAR members, $25 for non-members
(includes all games & light snacks)

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• MTV in the Holy Land and the birth of Israeli hip-hop.

• Hacktivists target the regimes in Egypt and Yemen

• Big Jewcy alumni, Leandra Medine, talks to BlackBook.

• The Jewish Book Council talks poetry.

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Geoff Berner might be best known as the brains behind the acclaimed “Whiskey Rabbi” trilogy of records, but that’s all in the past.  The present includes a move to the Canadian indie label, Mint Records, and hooking up with Socalled to produce his latest album, Victory Party.

Of the new collaboration, Berner said, “I wanted to make an album that sounded bigger, more “klezmer-ey”, and more transgressive, all at the same time. And I knew I couldn’t do it alone. In fact, I knew that I couldn’t do it without Josh [Socalled].”

Listen: Geoff Berner – “Wealthy Poet”

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• Rabbi Shmuley talks about MTV’s Skins, Michael Jackson, and other things that are creepy

• Jon Stewart discusses just how much Fox News uses the term “Nazi.”  Uses song title by English “Madchester” band, Happy Mondays to get point across.

• David Bernstein has been voted in as the new chairman of the Football Association.  By football we mean soccer.

• “How to be Jewish.”

• In defense of anti-Semites:”Leave Céline Alone!“

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• At YNet: Racism and hatred rising among Israeli students.

• At BoingBoing: Protesters in Tunisia love Mark Zuckerberg.

• At Tablet: Chagall’s America Windows, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
  

• At The Sisterhood: More of the Chinese mother vs. Jewish mother debate.

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Join the W Group for a very special Shabbat Service exclusively for young adults – created for us, by us. We are excited to welcome Birthright Israel NEXT Los Angeles as our special guests for this service and hope that you will join us. The W Shabbat will include a one-hour service guided by our very own siddur, and be accompanied by original music from W Group members, among whom are Broadway and pop music composers. This new Shabbat experience will create a meaningful and unique Friday night experience for all – from the frequent Shabbat-goer, to those who don’t know or remember the prayers, and everyone in between.

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• Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Read his “I have a Dream Speech” with notes showing its Biblical references and Jewish parallels.

• At Huffington Post: Ehud Barak is all like “I’m done with you Labor Party; I’m starting my own crew.”

• At Harretz: Jewish Funds for Justice trying to get Glenn Beck canned.

• At The Guardian: The list of greatest beards in literature includes no Jews, but a few anti-Semites wrote the books.

• At Dangerous Minds: The last tour the Velvet Underground ever did.

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• At YNet: Nazi-hunters give low grades to thirteen countries.  The US and Germany both get an ‘A’.

• At The LA Times: Taking a look at the term ‘blood libel,” a day after Sarah Palin used it in a speech.

• At The BBC: Swedish author Fredrik Colting’s “Sequel” to Catcher in the Rye is officially banned in the US and Canada.

• At The Huffington Post: ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Patti Stanger’s clients complain that she’s a ripoff. Since they’re millionaires, We’re sure they’ll get over it.

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