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Happy Turkey Day!

Exile, Prejudice, Victory: A Jewish Thanksgiving Story From the New World

The story of Asser Levy and the first Jews in New Amsterdam

How American Jews Adopted—and Adapted—Thanksgiving

Special synagogue services may be a thing of the past but otherwise observing the holiday helped Jews feel like at one with the turkey-loving nation

As Thanksgiving Approaches, Advice on Gluttony From Maimonides

The great rabbi and doctor advised laxatives before the meal, exercise after, and no chickpeas

Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims’ American Jewish Holiday

How the biblical narrative of Exodus helped shape the founders’ idea of a secular nation with liberty for all

Saying ‘Shehechiyanu’ on Thanksgiving

This holiday, read I Say Shehechiyanu, a new children’s picture book that can help your family tolerate the inevitable mishegas

Treat a Lone Soldier to a Thanksgiving Dinner

A bar in Jerusalem provides Americans in the IDF with warm Thanksgiving meals, but this year, they need some help. Want to do a Thanksgiving mitzvah?

A Jewish Leader at the First Thanksgiving

Colonial cantor Gershom Mendes Seixas was a George Washington favorite

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Jewcy is taking a much-needed vacation. It’s summer, it’s hot, and we’ve been at this for a while.

The site won’t be updated with new content, but our archives are still accessible. If you’re looking to get your Jewcy on, you can get happy here, get baked here, or even wrestle with God here. (Also, just FYI, it’s a mitzvah to read our Drake coverage.)

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We hit chapter 100 in Book Two and things start to fall apart. As the narrative drags, David Tuchman and guest Luzer Twersky (star of the film “Felix and Meira”! Check it out!) start to lose their grips on reality. Do you want to see how crazy the Bible can drive two men? Want to know how ex-Hasid Luzer Twersky ended up playing a Hasidic man in an independent movie garnering loads of critical attention? Listen here:

Not gonna lie: not much happens in the second part of this episode’s reading. However, Luzer Twersky and David Tuchman have a bit of a breakdown trying to get through it. And you’ve probably never had as many disgusting thoughts about candelabras as these two do. Listen to episode 32.2 now, because it is a wonderful, wonderful mess!

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

(Image: Felix and Meira)

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We’ve finally reached one of the most important parts of the Bible: the part where God shows Moses his butt, and God’s butt breaks Moses’s face. For real. Sure, sure, there’s other stuff about forgiveness and laws and two possible versions of the Ten Commandments, but who cares about that when Shulem Deen, author of “All Who God Not Return,” is reading about the glory of God’s butt?

That’s right, no one.

Tune in now. There’s no other reasonable thing to do.

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

David will be reading the next live show in New York at Beauty Bar with on June 22!

(Image: The Internet, Source of All Memes)

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Have you ever read the Bible? OK, but have you ever read the Bible on weed? In episode 31.1, Shulem Deen stops by OMGWTFBIBLE to talk about his new memoir, “All Who Go Do Not Return,” and also to talk about a controversial translation of the Bible that seems to include cannabis as part of the priestly anointing oil. Who knew?

Also in this episode: The whole Golden Calf thing happens and there’s very probably an orgy. Join the fun and listen now!

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

David will be reading the next live show in New York at Beauty Bar with on June 22!

(Image: Shutterstock)

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Are you ready to be grossed out? In Episode 30.2 of OMGWTFBIBLE, the narrative of the Bible completely breaks down. We’ll be frank: it just turns into graphic depictions of bloody, bloody sacrifices. Why is this holy or important? We don’t know, but it sure is fun to listen to.

Check out Catie Lazarus, host of “Employee of the Month,” as she reads David Tuchman’s bible translation now! You might learn something about animal sacrifices or at least about Alan Dershowitz.

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

Check back here next week for the next installment of OMGWTFBIBLE. David will be reading the next live show in New York at Beauty Bar with Shulem Deen, author of All Who Go Do Not Return, on April 27!

(Image: High Priest Offering a Sacrifice of a Goat; illustration from Henry Davenport Northrop’s 1894 Treasures of the Bible)

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Sure, God created the world, drowned almost everyone in a massive flood, killed a bunch of Egyptians, and has all sort of laws he wants people to care about, but did you know he also designs clothing? It’s true! And that’s what guest Catie Lazarus spends the majority of Episode 30.1 of OMGWTFBIBLE reading!

The hilarious host of “Employee of the Month” joined OMGWTFBIBLE host David Tuchman to read about some divine fashion choices that have been out of style for a few thousand seasons. What does she think of holy vests? Can she pull off a Godly breastplate? Find out here:

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

Check back here tomorrow for the next installment of OMGWTFBIBLE. David will be reading the next live show in New York at Beauty Bar with Shulem Deen, author of All Who Go Do Not Return, on April 27!

(Image: The Holy of Holies; illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible)

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When we last left our heroes, David Tuchman and Mark Leuchter were in Raven Lounge in Philadelphia, reading about all the stuff God wanted in his desert tent. That’s right, they were halfway through “Terumah,” the seventh portion of Exodus, and growing weary of all of God’s very specific and confusing instructions.

Can they make it through? Can they finish episode 29.2, complete God’s directions, and find something remotely meaningful to talk about in all this? Find out on the next episode of OMGWTFBIBLE, available right here, right now!

David Tuchman translated the Tanakh as a comedy and called it OMGWTFBIBLE. Each month on his podcast, he calls up a different guest to read as many chapters of OMGWTFBIBLE as they can while they both make fun of it.

Jewcy is the proud (internet) co-host of OMGWTFBIBLE. Read more about the project here, and listen to previous episodes here.

Check back here in a week for the next installment of OMGWTFBIBLE. David will be reading the next live show in New York at Beauty Bar with Catie Lazarus on March 23!

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