Dear Cusotmer,

Last November Pop Judaica became part of the ModernTribe family and sister site to ModernTribe.com. We’ve been working hard to build a new, integrated website for both ModernTribe and Pop Judaica so that you can shop both stores and check out once.

Along the way to achieving an integrated shopping experience, we need to take a sideways step and temporarily move Pop Judaica onto ModernTribe’s website. The current plan is that Pop Judaica will temporarily be a boutique on ModernTribe.com, through the end of 2010, and then move to its own new and improved website mid 2011.

Starting in September, when you go to PopJudaica.com, you will be automatically re-directed to the Pop Judaica boutique on ModernTribe, where you’ll find funny Jewish gifts and kitschy tchotchkes along with the advanced shopping features of ModernTribe including:

• Choose gift wrapping & create free gift notes
• Create customer accounts allowing you to:
  • Save addresses of your favorite gift recipients in your address book
  • Ship to multiple addresses during the same order!
  • Access your order status and order history online
  • See if your package has shipped and track your shipments
  • Re-order past orders
  • Create a Wishlist
  • Save items to purchase later in “Save For Later”
  • Create multiple gift registries for any occasion
  • Share your wishlist and gift registry via email or be found through gift registry search (or make your lists private)
  • Manage your account information and newsletter subscription
• Pay with PayPal or Google Checkout or by credit card
• Ship international!
• Choose express shipping options

We are so glad you are our customer and wish to serve you in the best way possible for years to come! Please don’t hesitate to call or email us with comments or questions. 877-324-1818

Your Shopkeeper,

Jennie Rivlin Roberts

Mamalah's Four Cups Giveaway

Each year on Passover, we recall the exodus from Egypt and — like a certain Black-Eyed Peas smash hit –  toss back plenty of l’chaims.  Four cups to be exact! What makes your experience of the four cups unique?

Tell us why your Passover is different from all others to enter the Mamalah’s Passover Four Cups Giveaway!

Passover Prize Package

One lucky winner will receive the following gifts:

• Author Lisa Alcalay Klug’s book Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe
• ModernTribe’s “No Limit Texas Dreidel” game — Dreidel isn’t just for Hanukkah anymore!
• Mama Doni’s music CD for kids and parents: I Love Herring + a Moma Doni T-Shirt (www.MamaDoni.com)
• Matzah Madness gifts from PopJudaica.com: Matzah Sweeper & Giant Inflatable Matzah Ball.

Your entry also earns you a 10% discount code at ModernTribe.com and PopJudaica.com!  Good for any of the giveaway gifts and much more to make your Passover different than all others. We will email you the discount code after you enter, so make sure we can reach you by email.

Why is this Passover different from all others? Do you have unique traditions for your seder? Are you doing something different this year? Share your thoughts to enter to win the Mamalah’s Four Cups Giveaway!

TWITTER BONUS ROUND:

Receive an extra entry for every Tweet! Use http://tinyurl.com/fourcups + @ModernTribe_Jew

Winner will be notified Thursday, April 1rst.

• How we pick the winners — We use a random number generator and if it matches (a) a real attempt at an answer and (b) we can contact the person, then that person is the winner. If either (a) or (b) isn’t true, we generate another random number and start over.
• No purchase is required to enter. This contest is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada 18 years old and older. Void where prohibited. Your comments will be displayed without further approval or compensation. Please read our privacy policy for more information.

“King David is the biblical figure with whom I most closely identify. He had the best intentions but was so utterly and humanly flawed. I can definitely relate to that. Plus, David is my middle name, and my closest friend (my brother) is named Jonathan.”

Once again we are impressed by the thoughtfulness of your answers! Congratulations to Scott for winning the Mamalah’s Purim Giveaway!

Scott will receive:

• Author Lisa Alcalay Klug’s book Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe
• ModernTribe’s “No Limit Texas Dreidel” game.
• Mama Doni’s music CD for kids and parents: I Love Purim. (www.MamaDoni.com)
• Noshes from PopJudaica.com: Jewish Fortune Cookies & Meshuga Nutz — great for mishloach manot, giving food to friends.

Here are some of our favorite Jewish doppelgangers:

• “The prophet Amos – came down from the mountains, raised hell and then left town.” — Jay
• “I am most like Devorah, the judge. I am all about justice. I get truly indignant when I hear about evil getting away without punishment.”  — Lara
• “I love Momma Sarah. I know she was a woman of great faith, but she was also a woman of great doubts. Remember it was her idea that Abraham lay with Haggar because she felt G-d wasn’t working fast enough. I often find myself asking G-d to work on my timetable instead of changing to His.”  — Treena
• “Definitely Vashti. She’s always given a bad rap in Hebrew School, but I think that refusing to dance naked for your husband and his drunken poker buddies, knowing full well that you will be kicked out on your ass, is pretty heroic.” –  Beth
• “It’s got to be Eddie Vedder – they say he’s Jewish, and I too cannot look anyone in the eye while singing or playing guitar.” — Eitan
• “Biblically, my doppelganger has to be Chana…She was a prayer extraordinaire! And while I don’t claim to be on her level, not even close, I aspire to become more like her in my prayer life. Having her name has always motivated me to work on cultivating a stronger prayer life.” — Chana
• “Jonah, the clowny ‘prophet’ running away from the task given by God, falling asleep when life is a mess and having a taste for melodrama, slightly aloof but with heaps of irony.” — Frances
• “I’m going Moses. I live in Texas and Charlton Heston was Moses. Furthermore, when I get angry I like to break stuff cave man style. When I buy a case of beer I often drink it from the middle out, effectively “parting” the beer sea. Im not really a leader of men, but once or twice a vagrant has followed me about asking for cash. Also, I rock the fly beard which is pretty Moses, though I dont wear girl jeans which – lets face it – if Moses was around he’d probably rock. Fricken’ hipster.” — Adam

Thank you for playing!

Love,

The Mamalahs: Doni, Jennie, & Lisa

In the Purim Megillah, Esther hides her Jewishness from the King. Even the name Esther means hidden. G-d is hidden in the Purim story. Sometimes your truest self is hidden, too.

But on Purim, “hiding” in costume gives you the freedom to let-it-all-hang-out and celebrate sometimes hidden aspects of who you are! What part of you do you want to party-up on Purim? Tell us your Jewish doppleganger to enter to win the Mamalah’s Purim Giveaway!

One lucky winner will receive the following gifts:

• Author Lisa Alcalay Klug’s book Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe
• ModernTribe’s “No Limit Texas Dreidel” game.
• Mama Doni’s music CD for kids and parents: I Love Purim. (www.MamaDoni.com)
• Noshes from PopJudaica.com: Jewish Fortune Cookies & Meshuga Nutz — great for mishloach manot, giving food to friends.

Comment to enter for a chance to win the Mamalah’s Purim Giveaway.

Who is your Jewish doppelganger? Which Jewish celebrity, historic figure, or bible character is your inspiration, your alter ego, your evil twin? Share your thoughts to enter to win!

TWITTER BONUS ROUND:

Receive an extra entry for every Tweet! Use http://tinyurl.com/jdoppel +  hashtag #mamalah

Winner will be notified Friday, February 26th.

• How we pick the winners — We use a random number generator and if it matches (a) a real attempt at an answer and (b) we can contact the person, then that person is the winner. If either (a) or (b) isn’t true, we generate another random number and start over.
• No purchase is required to enter. This contest is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada 18 years old and older. Void where prohibited. Your comments will be displayed without further approval or compensation. Please read our privacy policy for more information.

You can now buy $10 Insta-Jew Kits along with other funny Jewish gifts when shopping for Hanukkah gifts. Insta-Jew Kits are mystery bags containing at least three items whose value and quality are not guaranteed. One of the items will likely be a t-shirt and with it a chotsky, a CD, a book, or some underpants with Yiddish on the tuchus. Modeled after Woot.com’s Random Crap (affectionately called “Bag of Crap”) the Insta-Jew kits are a fun way to practically give away a bunch of quirky, weird Jewish stuff which has landed in our warehouse and raise money for non-profits that enrich the youthful Jewish American culture.

Moses Toast: Moses with the Ten Commandments

I’m a religious man — I knew it was a sign from G-d.”

We are allowing no returns, exchanges, special requests or kvetching when it comes to the Insta-Jew Kits. This is just a fun surprise for 10 bucks, great for Hanukkah party gag-gifts, and a way to raise money for JDub and Jewcy.

To extend the fun further, we are also announcing our recent miraculous discovery: Moses Toast. Pop Judaica employee Patrick Aleph recounts, “we were making Insta-Jew Kits and took a toast break. When I took the toast out of the oven, it had the image of Moses on it. I’m a religious man — I knew it was a sign from G-d.” Rivlin Roberts explains the Moses Toast another way: “We remembered a news story about an Ebay listing for toast with an image of Jesus on it. We were laughing and saying how Jews would never see a deity in toast. Then we decided to have some fun with it.” A Jewish take on “Jesus Toast,” Moses Toast is a piece of toast with the image of Moses holding the Ten Commandments burned into it. The toast sells for $49.95 and 100% of the proceeds go to the non-profit Jewish music and media companies Jewcy.com and JDub Records.

Now through Monday, add Texas Dreidel game to your order and get free ground shipping to any continental US address. Add a game, then Use Code: DOORBUSTER. Code isn’t good for the game alone: order must include, at minimum, one game plus one other item.

If you don’t know No Limit Texas Dreidel get to know the game from this video made by friend of ModernTribe Montica Pes:

New and Exclusive to Pop Judaica & ModernTribe $39

A novel take to the traditional Chanukah menorah: Chanukkit is an innovative set of individual menorahs, one for each day, made entirely of wax! The set includes eight menorahs including shamash candles (the one used to light the others).  Lighting a new Chanukkit menorah each night reflects the joy and spirit of renewal of the holiday. $39.00

My Own Chanukah Set with Latkes $29.99

My Own Chanukah Set with Latkes. The 9 colorful wooden candles have removable flames so children can “light” the menorah (brilliant!). $29.99

Festival of Light String Lights $14.99

They don’t call it the Festival of Lights for nothing! Light up your home and your Chanukah party with these menorah, dreidel and Star of David string lights.  $14.99

Early 2010 we will integrate the shopping carts so you can shop both stores and check out once.

Now, you can shop in both stores and pay for ground shipping once. Shop ModernTribe within 24 hours of placing your Pop Judaica order and use code SHOPPEDPJ during checkout (in the shopping cart before you click “checkout”). We will ship all your goods in one box! Welcome to ModernTribe: Reach us at 877-324-1818 or contact@moderntribe.com

Top 10 Things To Know About ModernTribe.com

1. ModernTribe launched in September, 2007 to bring the world No Limit Texas Dreidel
2. Our mission is to bring you the best and newest in Jewish gifts and modern Judaica while supporting young, Jewish and Israeli designers in bringing their innovative products to market.
3. ModernTribe is run by Jennie Rivlin Roberts, whose official company title is “Shopkeeper”
4. Our other team members are Tiffany our warehouse manager and Patrick our Personal Shopper and head of customer service.
5. We ship internationally and offer Express Shipping options
6. Gift-wrapping is available – $5 flat fee all items going to one address.
7. 99% of our products are in stock and ship from our warehouse in Atlanta, GA.
8. We love to communicate with our customers and many of you do through our Twitter account: ModernTribe_Jew
9. We support American Jewish culture with active involvement with Jewcy.com, JDub Records, Shemspeed Records, Jewlicious, and Heeb magazine. Hillels across the country and many organizations participate in our non-profit affiliate program and No Limit Texas Dreidel charity tournaments.
10. We have a lot of fun running ModernTribe while striving for complete satisfaction for you, our dear customers.
11. And one more… Enter our Matisyahu Sweepstakes for a chance to win Matisyahu concert tickets + $500 shopping spree on ModernTribe.com:

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.
MAZEL TOV TO OUR WINNER @rica620!
If you like the T-Shirts pictured above, you can get $5.00 off your first purchase from PopJudaica.com by subscribing to our email newsletter here. If you’re looking for love, log on to JDate.com!

Enter our High Holiday giveaway for your chance to win a membership to JDate.com and a set of two t-shirts from PopJudaica.com to wear on your date!

To enter, follow these individuals on Twitter today (9/23/09) for 5 chances to win a one month membership to JDate.com:
@jdate @popjudaica @interactiveamy @gemfit @dberkowitz @kvetchingeditor and @imadedinner. We’ll be tweeting out High Holiday trivia questions throughout the day starting at 1pm EST.  The first person to answer each question will win a one month membership to JDate.

Want to win the Grand Prize of a 6 month membership to JDate and a set of two Jewish t-shirts from PopJudaica.com? Here’s how:

1. Follow @PopJudaica and @JDate on Twitter

2. Tweet out the following message
(You can tweet it as many times as you’d like!):
Don’t Atone Alone! http://tinyurl.com/DontAtoneAlone

3. Check back here at  5pm EST when we’ll be announcing the lucky winner!

*No purchase necessary. This contest is only open to residents of the US and Canada.

from G-dcast.com