Orthodox Jews just wanna have fun

By far the funniest video doing the rounds at the moment is a tribute to The Chevra and their song Lecha.

Click here to view it.

From DailyJews.com:

The song has become such a cult classic that it's even spawned its own unofficial video, currently doing the rounds online.

Directed by someone called David Lavon, it was filmed in several locations including Israel, the US and London, England – and features a cast of hundreds showing their fondness for the song by dancing, miming along and generally acting goofy.

If you've never seen Orthodox Jews – or any Jews for that matter – jumping off walls le parkour style, doing backflips or acting out dance routines that spoof boy bands, then you're in for a treat. We have no idea who David Lavon is, nor why he chose The Chevra, or this particular song, but it works really well. Maybe they should get him to do an official video.

Comments

[Lior]

Thanks for posting this link which has now been forwarded to 3,798½ other people.

Regrettably, however, I must ask you to remove it from your website as it causes considerable offence, breaching every stricture of political correctness and inclusivity when put through the prism of ideological soundness - and we simply cannot have all those nice Liberal Jews at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St Johns Wood, upset, or Danny Rich will be writing to The Guardian again, claiming that the first thing the Chief Rabbi thinks about in the mornings before he washes his hands is what Danny Rich is thinking.

The video is unacceptable on the following grounds:

The video comprises only males. This continues the paradym of patriarchal oppression within society and negates the inherent and innate equality of the sexes. Those males filmed have also been subject to the horrors of genital mutilation which is unacceptable assault on a minor, leading to irreparable sexual dysfunction and an inability to masturbate.

Its participants also clearly display Attention Deficit Syndrome and rather than indulge such unpleasant, testosterone-fuelled antics, should all be put on Ritalin in order that they behave more acceptably, i.e. like girls.

The video is shot in London outside the Palace of Westminster and Whitehall. These represent unacceptable images of imperialistic oppression to all rightminded citizens and all peoples who suffered under the heel of British colonial expansionism and perpetuate a neo-colonialist world view and should be censored.

Further scences are shot in Jewish Occupied Palestine and, moreover, without indication as to their ligitimacy within the Green Line. No students from a Moslem madrassar have been asked to participate and Marian Christians and Druze have also been willfully and purposefully excluded. This does not reflect the multi-cultural nature of the Jewish Occupied Palestine and is to be condemned for its mono-cultural outlook.

One scene in particular is of concern, whereby a visibly carbohydrate-challenged sufferer of obesity is, through no fault of his own - even an over-indulged penchant for doughnuts at Hanukkah - purposefully ridiculed.

Indeed, various scenes of meat consumption are featured. This involves the innate cruelty of human consumption of animal products and the practice of Shechita. Moreover, certain vegetations known to scream when being ripped from the ground have been abused. The makers of the video clearly neglected to consult a Vegan Vegetation Rights expert whilst employing a medical doctor in the making of the film. This discriminates against all root vegetables.

It is noted that those scenes of the video shot in the United States remain unidentifiable locations. This indicates a full admission on the makers' part that their video is offensive and clearly anticipate reprisals. Furthermore, such scenes clearly glorify American militaristic and political hegemony over friendly Arab states such as Iraq, Syria and Egypt and the only democracy in the Middle East: Iran. The very fact that the participants are seen immitating cheer leaders is representative of an unquestioning allegiance to the present President of the United States and a blind following for such a role model (yes, George Bush was a cheer leader - ever heard of anything so camp?)

I could go on... the featuring of the London Routemaster bus which does not allow disabled access, gymnastics undertaken without regard for Britain's Health and Safety legislation - although the scene in the swimming pool, in mitigation, could be seen as promoting the compulsory use of chlorine in drinking water, provided, of course, that sufficient quantities of estrogen are likewise added.

Why have I spent the last however many minutes writing this drivel? To show just how much fun we're allowed to have these days - no wonder they're all so po-faced at... yep, you got it, the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St Johns Wood.

[Sunny]

Lol, thats was funny. The trick with the backflip and chucking the football was quite good, early on.