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Jewlicious Conference Recap

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Esther and Laya

Esther and Laya finally make it to the beach Sunday afternoon fulfilling the promise of the Jewlicious @ the Beach Conference.

Hoodies

The Hip Hop Hoodios rock the house.

henna


Henna Tattoos, Laya demonstrates blogging on snazzy computers donated by Apple Computers. ck is now giving out kosher certificates???

Pool Party

Saturday night pool party.

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Founder and Publisher of Jewlicious, David Abitbol lives in Jerusalem with his wife, newborn daughter and toddler son. Blogging as "ck" he's been blocked on twitter by the right and the left, so he's doing something right.

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  • CK, MUffti knows *you* are being charitable, but though it was the afternoon, SG (and perhaps Muffti) were not completely sober…

  • Muffti: Please. I know you’re being charitable, but you know and I know that SG was no mental giant at the best of times. And I recall that conversation – it was in the afternoon and everyone involved was completely sober. Thats what was so frightening!

  • We had no cheerleaders at my yeshiva high school, although at one point a friend and I tried to design a tznius cheerleading outfit, just for fun.

    But then again, with no football team, there was hardly anything to cheer anyway. (A bracha bee? Bechina Yerushalmit? The National Bible Competition?)

  • Goomba blog? I always found it a more Koopa Troopa blog, or maybe like a Chargin’ Chuck blog. In any case, it’s certainly not a Bonanza Bill blog, although that is very alliterative.

  • Actually, ck, some cheerleaders would do wonders for this ol’ blog. Any volunteers out there? And (this is the last Muffti will say on the topic), Muffti was absolutely mortified and shocked that you showed such restraint. Luckily for us she (at least pretended to have) caught the joke herself and the whole thing was sorta funny rather than tragic. And please try to remember just how much M SG had inhaled that particular evening…

    Now back to our non-cliquish programming.

  • Dude, I was a tortured artist and played basketball. Philadelphia is a tough town to play ball.

    By the way, what do you think of the Liberal government’s crisis du jour? Will they survive? Will the Bloc Quebecois go for another sovereignty vote when they realize the next election gives them a western based conservative ruling party?

  • Aw… Aish Freak! Are you feeling left out? Look, muffti and I are good friends but he now live in NJ and I am in Canada. So sometimes we share inside jokes but it’s not designed to make you feel excluded. It’s just for, ya know, a laugh. If ya knew muffti and me, and everyone else that blogs here, you’d know we’re really not the cliquey type – nary a cheerleader in the group. OK, I did play football and basketball but I was also a tortured artist too.

    Now, put the gun down and let those kids out. No need for anyone else to get hurt…

  • That was funny. You looked mortified though – you had that look on your face like “Oh no. ck is going to say something awful. Lets hope he uses really big words so that SG doesn’t understand and be scarred for life as a result.” And in fact I was admirably restrained, though frankly, I think SG was never the same as a result of crossing the threshold of our place. Yikes.

  • Esther, haven’t you learned by now? TM is curious and a little nosey and can’t help himself, even though he knows the jokes are private and derive from CK and Muffti’s much-referred-to-youth.

    Speaking of which, CK, remeber that time with SG and the Rembrandt museum? Oh man was that funny…

  • TM, haven’t you learned by now? CK and Muffti use this space to recall private jokes from their much-referred-to youth. Only their secret decoder rings can reveal the blog’s true secrets.

    I also have it on decent (wholly invented) authority that there is also a hidden code in the letters of their posts, like the Torah Codes, that if deciphered will reveal the arrival date of the Messiah.

  • I don’t have a clue what you and Muffti are discussing, but send me an email about it, ck, cuz I’m damn curious.

  • ck, i’m all for having fun. and, ok, for the record, i am jealous that jewlicious got to have a blast in sunny CA andu got R. Leibush to come lain for you! he is my favorite rabbi ever. ashreinu, ashreinu, ashreinu sh’yesh lanu rebbe cazeh!

  • The Mario thing was in Long Beach. It was just there in a bag, in the middle of the street. Just sitting there. Amazing serendipity! We’ll find ya sumpin …

  • Muffti is sure you guys had a wondeful time. He would have been glad to have come but for old friends and an ex giving a paper he promised he’d see etc. Was the M_ incident in Montreal or Long Beach? (That would help Muffti understand the nature of the serendipity!)

    Muffti will be in Montreal for the month of June if he can find a cheap enough place.

  • Muffti: awesome restraint there! I am glad u had a good time in the ‘cuse. We had a good time here too though. And then when it was over, imagine Mario dropped his stuff and I found it. That’s what happenned. Totally freaky! And serendipitous! Too bad you weren’t here for that.

  • No, it did not turn me on. It made Muffti sort of glad he went to the ‘cuse. Which was mucho fun, thanks for asking. At the very least, the female/male ratio was much more favourable than the one in the pool.

  • You also may want to check out the LBJewishNews.com recap or my post from last night on My Urban Kvetch; although the latter is not point-by-point, it’s my reflection on the event that was.

  • Muffti has to say, that pool party looks to be overwhelmingly male…

  • I hear he’s never comin’ back. He and Esther and Laya are shacking up in a one bedroom loft near Venice Beach, and he’s gonna lift weights there at muscle beach or whatever it’s called.

    It ain’t brain surgery, oh happily married Shiksa. He has a choice between sun and snow, real beach or artificial something like a beach, two unmarried hotties or married hotties in his office, etc., etc. What would you choose?

    Let ck be free.

  • chazarmaveth: The people in the pool are conference participants. They all mostly live in California. Long Beach has been pretty sunny since we got here, but it’s still a bit too cold to tan. Besides, tanning is for losers. Say what you will about their physiques, at least they were having fun.

  • hey i’m not bitter, i’m just saying… i generally try to keep my own Caspar-the-Friendly-Ghost pallor and less-than-stunning physique to *myself*, and i’d be a happier man if the jewlicious crew would have thought to do all of us the same courtesy… c’mon, look at how freakin’ ghostly WHITE they all still are, *even* after a weekend at the California beach!!! sheez!!!

  • Anyone who is bitter about hearing so much about this conference is just jealous that they weren’t there. It rocked! Check out my perspective on Beach Hillel’s blog later today at http://www.beachhillel.com

  • Jonny, what are you complaining about? Over at another site, they’re recycling our old topics. 😉

  • I hope there was a Michitza in that pool, and sneeutz (however u spell it) bathing suits for all!!!

  • How many people attended the conference? Did Apple let you keep the computers? Sweet! I want to hold a conference! In my living room! What’s Steve Jobs’s number??

  • can you guys please start writing about things other than the conference. “It is booooring, it is a like doing it with my sister” – borat