Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Glee-filte Fish

What’s the best part of Fox's megahit Glee?  The singing?  No.  Dancing?  Nope.  The unbridled hope and ambition of talented youth?  Uh-uh.

Give up?  It’s the Jew-cy one-liners served up by super hot Member of the Tribe, Noah Puckerman.

Last night's episode, “Never Been Kissed,” featured Puck’s return from a stint in a juvenile detention center, where apparently exists a dire lack of both chicks and kosher meal options.  Puck is unfortunately not the first bad-ass bocher to land in jail, so resources like the Aleph-Institute are out there for the next time he drives his mom's Volvo into a convenience store and leaves with the ATM.  It could happen to anyone.

 "There's no way I'm going back to Juvie. There's no chicks and no kosher meal options at that place."

Sure, a lot about Puck is not very kosher (ie:  Puckerman family Simchat Torah sweet-and-sour pork/Schindler’s List minhag).  But the combination of his unusual Jewish beefiness and acoustic guitar talents (ask any Jewish girl who went to sleep away camp what I mean) has us praying for his rehabilitation and successful immersion back into society.

Puck, if you’re out there, you’re not alone.  Chabad of Greater Dayton is just 70 miles from Lima.  I hear Rabbi Mangel there does an awesome mash-up of Hava Nagila and Adam Sandler’s The Hanukkah Song.  You might even prefer the more traditional, Schnapps-fueled Simchat Torah celebration.

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