What’s an apikores to do on Yom Kippur? If you were an anarchist in London, New York, or Warsaw in the early 20th century, there’s a good chance you would have attended a Yom Kippur ball for the express purpose of eating, drinking, and thumbing your nose at tradition and the religious establishment.

The creators of the new comedy series YidLife Crisis have captured that heretical spirit, added a dash of irony and Yiddish profanity, and served it up for free online—with a side of poutine.

YidLife is the brainchild of Canadian comics Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, who play Leizer and Chaimie, respectively. The web series follows the two thirty-somethings as they contemplate the modern Jewish condition against the backdrop of Montreal’s iconic restaurants. The best part? YidLife’s dialogue is spoken almost entirely in Yiddish.

In “Breaking the Fast,” the first episode of the series, Chaimie tries to persuade Leizer to ditch the whole Yom Kippur thing and indulge in some poutine, which, for the uninitiated, consists of French fries slathered in cheese curds and meat-based gravy—essentially a very delicious, very treyf heart attack in a bowl. Leizer doesn’t need much in the way of convincing, though he makes sure to keep his cheese curds and gravy separate. As Leizer himself puts it (in Yiddish), “If I have to break the fast, fine, but I will not mix milk and meat!”

Watch  “Breaking the Fast” below, and stay tuned for an interview with Batalion and Elman!

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Maybe you don’t want to eat animals that roll around in their poop (pigs) or creatures that can be classified as the ocean version of cockroaches (lobsters), but before you call any sort of food disgusting, you might want to check your fridge again, because your kosher food might also be pretty filthy.

Scallions, peaches, and that kosher chicken you’re using to try and recreate your grandmother’s soup are apparently some of the dirtiest foods you can eat according to a study.  Lettuce is possibly the most disturbing on the list.  Especially when you consider 11 percent of reported food-poisoning outbreaks linked to produce from 1990 to 2002, and “salad” accounted for 28 percent.

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• The Rahmfather: Emanuel seems genuinely touched. “Got off a goddamn bus to shake my hand,” he says. “Isn’t that weird?”

• “McRib is Back” is the #1 (promoted) topic on Twitter today.  We Googled “McRib Kosher” to see if we could find anything remotely Jewish about this culinary disaster.  All we got was a letter to Salon stating that “[t]he patty itself is just a pressed piece of boneless pork. Big whoop. I can’t see this as offensive unless you an Orthodox Jew keeping kosher.”

• I know they call it “Jew York City,” but take a look at some of the treyf made in the city.  This Village Voice list reads like a “Top Places Kosher Jews Should Not Go Within 10 Feet Of.”

• Sophie Crumb is all grown up and following in her parents footsteps.  She talks about her new book, Sophie Crumb: Evolution Of A Crazy Artist along with her father R. Crumb.

• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t think people care much about climate change.

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