WHO GIVES A SHIT: WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR CHANUKAH SUPPLIES IN PARK SLOPE?

Photo via ninedaves. And yep, these Fish's Eddy "heroes of the Torah" glasses DEF make fantastic Christmas gifts.

Hey chosen people: there are only a couple of more days until the festival of lights, aka Chanukah, aka Hanukkah starts on Tues night, and if you're anything like my lazy ass, you've done absolutely nothing to prepare. 

Well, fear not lazy Jews!

There are quite a few spots around Park Slope that you can hit up to get your Heeb on AND keep it local. 

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Park Slope synagogue gets a designer Sukkah

Rendering by Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman

Who said the starctecture trend was over?

As of yesterday, Park Slope's Beth Elohim has a fancy new designer sukkah.

When Sukkot rolls around, most synagogues put up a sukkah, a make-shift praying shelter covered in twigs  much like the ones used by Israelites during their 40-year exile. Not the Beth Elohim synagogue.

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Day Two: MatisyaWHO?

For you, on day two: a Hanukkah miracle.

I heard a live acoustic version of the insta-classic heeb holiday song, Miracle, last night on NPR and fell in love with hassid reggae/hip hop/beatbox singer Matisyahu. And that was before I got a load of this acid trip of a video. 

Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah!

Happy Hanukkah, Heebsters! 

And so it begins. Light your menorahs, pull out your dreidels, hold on to your yarmulkes and get ready to partay your way into the light.

FIPS Non-Definitive Guide to Upcoming Festivities in (mostly) Brooklyn:

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Associated Supermarket on 5th Ave Needs a Lesson in "Kosher for Passover"

(via Rob Blatt)