Falling Into the Rabbit Hole of Orthodox Pop Culture

The Maccabeats released their new video tonight, while mysteriously everyone but the Maccabeats were at a Jewish rock concert. In all honesty, I feel like I should have had my orthodox pop culture bingo card with me. We had the Moshav Band, the Groggers, Except Saturday, Yosaif Krohn, a Y-Stud, and even…Deena Mann (aka Chaya Suri)! I kept expecting Heshy Fried to walk around the corner! Sadly, he didn’t. Maybe you can count me, but no one recognized me despite this month’s surprising 19,000 hits! But I did get asked for subway directions, so I must look like I live here now, and that’s good enough for me.

And this was only a Thursday night in the life of the Young and Jewish.

Speaking of bingo, I should also play bingo with the Maccabeats video. I’m still new to New York City, so I still have the right to get childishly excited about recognizing places!

Good on ya, guys.

Now for my own random comments.

I really love this video because it makes me excited about living in New York. Dorktastic, I know.

I got to see the girls making that “Open Your Eyes” art, and I was pretty impressed. Nice work, ladies! I kept meaning to take a picture of that for the last week or so, but then the rain washed it away! It cheered up my dog walks and gave me a little Elul reminder each day. So thank you 🙂

And these Maccabeats really seem to be practicing what they preach. While having a 3:30am Facebook discussion with a friend about the video while I was writing this, I realized that every time I see any of these guys (and it happens relatively often), they actively do something that makes my day better. I couldn’t count the number of doors held open for me, welcoming smiles, friendly chat, and not death-staring my dogs. Thanks, guys! Elul Mission Accomplished with one person, even though it’s been over the last several months. It’s a small world, so I assume this’ll make its way where it belongs sooner or later. Good on ya again!