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. →