Remembering the Jewish People’s Moment of Miraculous Redemption
“We’re going to have a state. What’s the big deal?”
April 28, 2026
Thank you, Hashem, for Mario Kart.
Having recently come upon an online video satirizing Orthodox Jewish pop music—the inspirational verse around which the spoof song is structured comes from descriptions of leprosy in Leviticus—Matt Austerklein reflects on the genre, which has now been around for about half a century:
“We’re going to have a state. What’s the big deal?”
The dilemma on Israel’s northern border.
The myth of the Israel lobby.
Thank you, Hashem, for Mario Kart.
Separationist fundamentalism.
Having recently come upon an online video satirizing Orthodox Jewish pop music—the inspirational verse around which the spoof song is structured comes from descriptions of leprosy in Leviticus—Matt Austerklein reflects on the genre, which has now been around for about half a century:
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