Britney Spears was in New York this week, and traveled all the way up to the Bronx to visit some schoolchildren and sign autographs. Because someone decided to name a music room in a middle school after Britney. Awww! But also, whoops for that school.
Unfortunately, Britney arrived upstate (the Bronx is upstate) on Tuesday, which meant it was Rosh Hashanah, which meant school were closed, which meant Britney was all like "question mark???"
So Britney's handlers thought fast and led Britney inside the empty school, only to have her reemerge several minutes later to find a group of kids from a neighboring playground or something properly bowled over by the popstress. But um, some of these "kid quotes" sound awfully manufactured:
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The Sun isn't the only publication going under today: Jewish Living announced today that they are folding after five issues. Apparently today's wintery economic climate doesn't relent for the High Holy Days. Stupid irony.
With Rosh Hashanah tonight, Jews across the country will be dipping their apples into honey and celebrating the new year. But for Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe, the fruits of their labor will be bittersweet: the duo wrote a book about using the Torah as a guidebook for financial success, but the only media interested in promoting the book so far are Christian talk radio stations:
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Blame it on the High Holy Days around the corner, but Jews are certainly getting their fair share in the press recently for reasons other than owning the entire industry. Not that you couldn't do this exercise any old week, but just looking back in the past five days, count how many Jew-centric stories are in the news: Harvey Weinstein in the press again, Sarah Silverman shlepping for America, hell, even Bill O'Reilly feels the need to comment on the Jewiest show about Jews, albeit a decade too late.
Now, in honor of Rosh Hashanah this weekend, The Jewish Channel launched a series of webisodes, featuring New York elite Jews talking about their yearly mitzvahs. Unfortunately, Woody Allen isn't involved, but Rachel Sklar is, so things equal out? Maybe?
First of the episodes, after the jump:
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