We told you recently that Sarah Silverman had launched JASH, a new YouTube project, and there’s now a new JASH video! Silverman, the queen of very strange, offbeat humor, has one-upped herself. The “Jesus is Magic” and “Sarah Silverman Program” star loves making hilarious videos ripe for Internet consumption and her latest is all about France. In the new clip, Silverman takes on black and white French art house cinema. The short, “Féte des Pets” (“Fart …More

Los Angeles teenager Jake Davidson has the same fear as every other like-minded high school senior: going to prom alone. But unlike his friends, Davidson has aimed a little higher than head cheerleader. In a YouTube video to 21-year old super model Kate Upton, the apparently fearless young man made a case with confident coolness as to why she should accompany him to the senior prom. “You had me at ‘hello,’ you are the ying to my yang. I’m Jewish, 5’9” on a really good day, and …More

Sarah Silverman has a new project, and we’re not entirely sure what it is. Sarah has teamed up with Michael Cera, comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, and rap comic Reggie Watts to create JASH, a new channel on YouTube. As far as we can tell, this seems to be a collection of comedy videos akin to Funny or Die. The comics plan to curate and produce new sketch videos on the channel, ranging from a mock film noir preview by Silverman to a 25-minute short film by Cera. "We each have pages within Jash …More

The latest YouTube craze to take over the Internet has finally reached Israel. Thousands gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square and at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to perform the “Harlem Shake,” a dance meme that lasts a short 30 seconds, in honor of Purim this weekend. Some 70,000 people participated in the Tel Aviv version on Friday, making it one of the largest “Harlem Shake” videos yet. Over in Jerusalem, a few dozen Birthright students turned Judaism’s holiest site into …More

Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org Last October, the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew) was trending as the third-most tweeted subject in France. Users jumped on the chance to tweet phrases like “a good Jew is a dead Jew,” ultimately forcing the French Jewish students’ union (UEJF) to file a lawsuit against Twitter for allowing that content to appear. When a French court decided this January that Twitter must reveal the identities of users who sent out those anti-Semitic tweets, a cross-continental debate …More

The Oxford University Student's Union is scheduled to vote on joining the BDS movement Wednesday. [World Jewish Congress] Last week, a German court dismissed all charges against Rabbi David Goldberg for circumcising an infant after the practice was deemed illegal in Cologne. [Israel National News] In honor of Purim, three Books of Esther kept in the attic of a house in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II have been returned to Jewish hands. [Ynet] The Independent presents Purim in pictures. [The …More

Chemical weapons, nuclear debris and Mossad agents in biohazard suits all have played prominent roles in the dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding the crash of an El Al airplane in Amsterdam 20 years ago this month. But Rob Oudkerk, vice chairman of the Dutch parliament’s inquiry into the deadly crash, has studied and dismissed them all. In a recent interview for a Dutch TV documentary, members of Oudkerk’s commission of inquiry reiterated their conclusions: The Israeli cargo plane malfunctioned …More

IDF soldier Ron Bronstein has found a way to blow off steam in between training drills and boot camp. He shuffles. The 24-year-old from St. Louis has been with the Israeli military since March of this year, and he brought his special brand of dance rhythm along for the ride. Over the last few months he’s enlisted friends to help film him as he dance-shuffles across desert scapes, barracks and air force facilities. Basically, every day he’s shufflin’. “The day I was drafted, I stood …More

Hanna Szekeres, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News If you ask some of the world’s leading tech figures when they learned the bulk of their computing and programming experience, they’d probably point back to their teenage years, at the latest. Children today are ever more tech savvy, surrounded by an assortment of screens, tiny and large. The Scratch program, developed at Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), is dedicated to this purpose exactly: to teach young students programming concepts and …More

Gal Gadot is notorious for being just a little too racy, but her new viral YouTube videos have brought people to their limit. In her viral video to the single “Lie” by Noy Alooshe and Saar Badishi posted on July 31, she’s wearing only a bra – which she’s clearly fine with. YouTube, on the other hand, isn’t. They’ve restricted her video to registered users who confirm they’re old enough to view the video. Awkward for those underage Israeli boys. But they …More

Remember when Justin Bieber was virtually unheard of? Or are you too busy laughing at the idea of the world before Bieber? Well way back when (2008 to be exact), Scooter Braun accidentally came across a YouTube video that Bieber posted of himself singing. Braun became intrigued and tracked down Bieber, who he eventually signed to his label with Usher, Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG). Then as a result of a joint venture between RBMG and Island Records, L.A. Reid of Island Def Jam Records signed Bieber in October …More

A marriage proposal is something between two lovers, their 60 closest friends, and more than six million YouTube viewers. What appeared to many to be some terribly clever guerilla advertising for the Honda CRV is, in fact, the greatest and worst proposal ever documented on film. Portland actor Isaac Lamb posted a six-minute video of his lip-dub proposal to then-girlfriend Amy Frankel online on Friday. He thought only friends and family would watch the performance of “Marry You” by Bruno Mars. …More