Is It Good For The Jews?

Goldbrener is beardless, but the cool air of the Twilight Lounge is not enough to quell Rosen’s outrage at mid-winter heat. Will he crack under the sweltering pressure? Will anyone take his free Pottery Barn cubes? Meanwhile, Superbowl LII had no Jewish players but two Jewish owners, Sarah Silverman is on the market, the boys … Continue reading Episode #168: Aayyyy! →

Rosen has had it with mid-winter heat, so he steps into the cooling atmosphere of the Twilight Lounge, where Goldbrener is ready to deconstruct his eerie dream about “klikes” and consider guys dressed as Woody Allen, Omri Casspi’s flu, Olympic caliber Jews and an ultra-orthodox rabbi who’s moved to South Dakota, where he’ll become Jew … Continue reading Episode #167: Jews in South Dakota, Trees →

Step into an odor-free Twilight Lounge, where the boys are busy ranting about hidden public transit fare hikes, San Francisco’s Vehicle Eradication Project (TM) and the nefarious role of technology in removing meaning and purpose from the human condition. Having gotten their sea legs, Rosen and Goldbrener then offer up a TV recommendation, an Omri … Continue reading Episode #166: “Abbas’ true colors, Jerusalem Syndrome →

Settle in with Rosen, Goldbrener, and Rosen’s dad’s magazines for another episode of (Is it) Good for the Jews. This week, we touch on several pressing issues including poorly-behaved NFL heiresses, Hasidim trapped in Torah vaults, the best airlines for Jews (hint: not Delta), popular names for Jewish babies, Jerry Seinfeld’s Judaism, whether Rosen is … Continue reading Episode #165: Smart house, dumb shower, Ramallah →

The Twilight Lounge is fully operational for 2018, bringing you more Omri Casspi news, confusion about San Francisco’s mayoral status, a quick study of every celebrity Jew to pass during 2017, piles of garbage on city streets and Billy Crystal speculation. Speaking of piles of garbage, this week the boys also touch on Andrew “Weev” … Continue reading Episode #164: Iran protests, Weev, Casspi’s T →

For their last 2017 visit to the Twilight Lounge, the boys settle in early for a light-hearted holiday discussion, beginning with a rumination on the meaningful trinkets of our fathers (and fathers-in-law), followed by Rosen’s out-of-left-field Star Wars take and Goldbrener’s effective Planet of the Apes sales job. From there it’s onto Miss Iraq, Omri … Continue reading Episode #163: Jews rejecting Christmas, Marty’s belt →

After one month away, the boys re-enter the Twilight Lounge to offer the sad explanation for their absence and then ease into a new episode featuring Goldbrener’s new Trotskyite look, Ayelet Waldman’s head-scratching take on Hanukkah, what made Sam into Sam and other sundry items before diving into the elephant in the room: Is recognizing … Continue reading Episode #162: Jerusalem, and an explanation. →

Enter, if you dare, into a Twilight Lounge where Rosen is laid low by a possibly contagious respiratory illness and crazy people are masquerading as racists on BART. In-between coughs and Ann Murray references, the boys manage to share the good news about Jews in baseball, including Joc Pederson’s Jewish San Francisco connection. A quick … Continue reading Episode #161: Bernie Bernstein is not good for the Jews. →

This week we offer a streamlined episode of your favorite Jewish-themed podcast, launching into a long “what would you do?” examination of incidents happening on the Bay Area’s rapid transit system, BART, before returning again to the latest Larry David-related news. Was his SNL joke a joke about the Holocaust? Or was it about himself? … Continue reading Episode #160: Saudis provoke, David stumbles. →

Cool weather and hot topics are the rule in the Twilight Lounge this week, as Goldbrener challenges the efficacy of “wanting to see (a rude Uber driver) realize he’d done wrong rather than wanting him to fear for his life” and Rosen asks how hard it is to find a white supremacist in San Francisco. … Continue reading Episode #159: Historic buildings, pedestrian danger. →

Overwhelming heat has the boys looking to the Twilight Lounge for refuge, leading to a lighthearted (but not perhaps for the fainthearted) discussion about bathroom mishaps (!), followed by an exploration of how Rosen feels at his most Jewish around motorcycles and hot rods. More hi jinx follow before the boys take a sharp left, … Continue reading Episode #158: Bolsheviks and bathrooms. →

The smoke has cleared everywhere but in the Twilight Lounge this week, as the boys heat up a cool 53-degree night when Rosen’s seemingly innocuous question about the National Front explodes into a fiery debate about the role and power of the alt-right in present-day America. Fear not, though, fans of a lighter (Is it) … Continue reading Episode #157: National Front vs. Alt-Right →

The air is thick everywhere but in the Twilight Lounge as the boys convene to discuss the important topics of the day — sidewalk chalk guy, stealing engines from VW vans, San Francisco’s House of Prime Rib, Larry David, Goldbrener’s origin story, the weekly Omri Casspi status check and, of course, fires in Northern California. … Continue reading Episode #156: Fire! and fire Harvey Weinstein! →

Despite Rosen’s best efforts at avoidance, this week the boys wade into the dominant news stories of the day, resulting in a half-hour about gun control. Would a constitutional amendment banning all private ownership of firearms cause a civil war? Should all Jews be armed? How many guns does one need to own an “arsenal?” … Continue reading Episode #155: Guns, Palestinians, Tom Petty. →

Why not join Rosen and Goldbrener in the Twilight Lounge to celebrate the new year? But will we reach 5778? One fringe-y astronomer says the rapture will take us out before we even get a chance to atone for our first sin. Some questions addressed this week: Is God a creator or a manager? Why … Continue reading Episode #154: The internet and other questions. →

Blame the biblical weather for this week’s show, which tries to discuss genealogy but ends up ranting about “big soda” and the anti-semite of the week. Yes, San Francisco is awash in lightning strikes, but that’s no excuse for the Cleveland Jewish News’ overly negative “Top Ten Jewish Events of 5777.” Why no Gal Gadot, Cleveland … Continue reading Episode #153: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and lightning. →

Get out of the heat and join the boys for a sports- and philosophy-heavy episode featuring the travails of Goldbrener’s wife and Rosen’s dog, followed by an avalanche of Jewish sports news, which is rare, including Goldbrener’s suggestions regarding the “best” NFL team for Jews, the all-time Jewish home run leader, Juan Epstein syndrome and whether UCLA … Continue reading Episode #152: Cultural vs. religious Jews, “Chosen” Rosen →

This week, the boys are bracing themselves for an “excessive heat warning” and imploring you to take your snarky opinions about Houston somewhere else. Thus having established the Official Policy of (Is it) Good for the Jews, Rosen yells “shut up!” at Twitter and tells tales of sprained ankles while Goldbrener challenges traffic laws in West … Continue reading Episode #151: Find-a-sukkah →

Road warrior Rosen is back in the TwIlight Lounge with an uplifting eclipse story and tales of meeting a former IDF soldier in Oregon. Meanwhile, Billy Joel is living the Jewish dream and a report of threatening emails sent to Brandeis University leads to speculation that Goldbrener is a guy who’d know how to get … Continue reading Episode #150: White supremacists in town, eclipses. →

Plenty to discuss in the Twilight Lounge tonight. Rosen has returned from a golf outing with The King of Real Estate and found thousands of dollars in previously worthless stock. Goldbrener has dominated Xfinity and has a thing or two to say about the dotcom crash of the early 2000s. Despite Rosen’s admission of his Jewish … Continue reading Episode #149: A Jewish lens, bad t-shirts, socialists. →