Israeli Army Hotties
By Ben Mordechai
If you are one of the brothers and sisters of the Hebrew nation and you have not yet visited your homeland Israel yet, then I recommend to you to get off of your ass and stop making excuses and get yourself over there. There are so many more positive reasons to go there than there are reasons not to go. If you have been to Israel already,well then these photos of Israeli army hotties will hopefully bring to you some fond memories, and hopefully provide you with a reason to go back.
The moment you arrive to the State of Israel, either at the airport or at a terminal, one of the first things that you will certainly notice is the amount of people there are in uniform, doing functions of one sort or another. What will certainly stand out from the many uniformed Israeli personnel, will be the raw, sexy beauty of the young Israeli women in those uniforms. Wherever you go in Israel, you will see what I call, Israeli Army hotties.
If you are a fan of Israeli women and of Jewish women and surf then you must have come across the photographic work of Rachel Papo. Rachel is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in America, but was raised in Israel. According to her bio, “she began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer.” Her reasons for her photo series was because “These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service — Serial No. 3817131.”
She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University in Columbus (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05). She began photographing Israeli female soldiers in the summer of 2004 as part of her masters thesis project. She continues to photograph in both Israel and New York, pursuing fine art photography and accepting commissioned projects. Her photographs are included in several public and private collections. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
You can buy her book and support her.
Rachel’s book—Serial No. 3817131—is available now!
published by powerHouse Books | Foreword by Charles H. Traub | Buy it now
Also available—Two limited editions of twenty-five Including a slipcased copy of the book and an eight by ten inch c-print, signed and numbered by Rachel.
Rachel’s website: http://www.serialno3817131.com/
Israeli Army Women By Rachel Papo
Anyone who?s seen a Woody Allen movie, read the Bible, is Jewish, or has leafed through a Friar?s Club Joke Book, knows that the Hebrew people seem to be possessed of a very great libido. Why do you think those black hat types so often drive station wagons? They?re hauling a pride of little Jew tots to Gram?s house! The Word is true and the Jews are being fruitful and multiplying. And speaking of fruits: I?m all for Jewish Unity and the coming of Meshiekh, but not when the unification is of your thighs and my buttocks (and the coming…well, you probably get the picture). Y?see, sometimes it?s a bad idea for an aspiring Ba?al Teshuva to try and start up a conversation with an Orthodox looking Jew – because instead of insights on Torah you might get a glimpse of his Yetzer Horah. Especially when the the conversation is taking place on a bus in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn around midnight, apparently. Because it seems that some of these frums want to be more than just chums.
The Beastie Boys. Do they really need much of an introduction? Even if you’ve been living in a cave for the last twenty years or so, you’ve got to have heard some thumping on your cave walls from a neighbor blasting “Fight for Your Right (To Party)”. Not everyone’s familiar with their entire catalog, but heck, even my parents know who they are. For those of you who still don’t know who they are, let me give you a brief history.
The Beastie Boys are a hip hop group hailing from New York City. The three main members of the band (who have been consistent pretty much since the inception of the group) are Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Adam “MCA” Yauch. The current DJ of the group is Michael “Mix Master Mike” Schwartz. The three front men of the group have known each other since their youthful days as punk rock band members.
The press conference I took part in was a chance for writers to ask just about any question they wished. Questions posed ranged from their thoughts on music downloads to “Do you still feel you have to fight for your right to party?” (no, really, someone asked that). I was determined to represent Jewish Mayhem better than that guy did and I’d like to think I succeeded. Blender even mentioned Jewish Mayhem in their recap of the press event and pointed people in the direction of the magazine (go us!).
According to Mike D, “we’re not really sure why, but we started wearing suits to the studio when we were recording this album”. What comes through to me through things like matching suits and their constant back and forth banter amongst themselves is that they are not just band members, they are old friends. Their congenial nature made quite an impact on me.
I’ve interviewed scientists, musicians, lawyers, presidential candidates and diplomats. Few, if any of these people have been as open, honest and funny as the Beastie Boys were. They are a good group to interact with and they love answering offbeat questions.
Ad Rock was first to answer. “How we identify with being Jewish is more in the mold of how we identify with being New Yorkers. It’s more a cultural one as opposed to a religious one because of what our backgrounds are.” He continued “We all met each other going to clubs and playing in bands. It was a small, hardcore punk rock downtown New York City scene. We never thought this was going to last. We never thought this would be a career and we never figured we’d inspire others. It’s a good thing though. We can remember going downtown to see someone like Black Flag play at peppermint lounge, or Jazzy Jay (at which point MCA interjects “none of those are Jewish bands by the way”) and the effect they had on us. To have that effect on others is a good thing. ” Well, maybe their role models didn’t turn out to be nice Jewish boys, it’s good to see that the aspiring Jewish rappers of the world have such nice boytshiks to look up to. According to MCA “I don’t think that the three of us actually noticed we all had Jewish backgrounds until the press started asking us questions about it.” Mike D added “It wasn’t like we intended to start a Jewish group.” Funny coincidence then, that all three are Jewish and so is their DJ.
The newest album, as mentioned before, is all instrumental. When asked about this, MCA retorted “so what, are you trying to ask if we’ve got anything to say? Yeah, we should get out of Iraq. That’s one”. The crowd laughed, but I don’t think they fully understood what MCA was trying to say. I don’t think it was just a simple anti-war plug. I think he was trying to make the point that there’s always plenty to say and lots of different outlets to say these things. The Beastie Boys have all been fairly active politically in their own right. As Mike D added “We just wanted to make an instrumental album”. I think that took guts. How many other rap or hip hop stars can even play an instrument of any kind at all? I think that the music journalists in the room couldn’t quite get over the fact that it wasn’t a traditional hip hop album. Ad Rock said “We’ve got plenty to say, we’ve got a bunch more albums left in us”. I think the simple fact that they were able to put out an instrumental album itself speaks volumes.
They are a talented group and they are dedicated to actually making music. There is no denying that the Beastie Boys are involved with certain causes (MCA was instrumental in getting the Tibetan Freedom Concerts off the ground), but you don’t always have to shove that down everyone’s throats. I respect the Beastie Boys for putting out the new album and reminding the world that funny, witty lyrics are not their only talent.
If we had to give you examples of, or to make comparisons of other musicians and bands to NECRO, well, we are not going to. Instead we’re just going to piss you off and say that NECRO’s music sounds like NECRO’s music and you can make your own judgment and form your own opinions after watching his videos here, courtesy of NECRO and Youtube.com. Were you to read about this extreme dude who calls himself NECRO in any other media other than Jewish Mayhem it would probably never occur to you that the self-made, up and coming music producer, death-rap artist and independent record label owner, is a Jew, a Heeb, a Yid, one of the tribe of Judah, that is of course until you learn that his real name is Ron Braunstein and that his parents are Israeli.
Expanding Psycho+Logical-Records catalog, he produced solo albums for all three MC’s of the critically acclaimed underground hip-hop group NON PHIXION. These releases included his brother Ill Bill, Sabac, and Goretex. He also produced an album with hip-hop artist and hype man Mr. Hyde, and put together the “Circle of Tyrants” album, a super-group featuring Necro, Ill Bill, Mr. Hyde, and Goretex. In the following year, Psycho+Logical-Records released instrumental albums for nearly every one of the past albums Necro produced. Necro’s forthcoming CD “Death Rap” will be released via KOCH this fall.”
NECRO told Jewish Mayhem, “On my 
So what does NECRO listen to in order to get inspired by or to chill out to, according to NECRO, he doesn’t’t listen to a lot of hip-hop. “I’m really more into listening to Metallica, Pantera, death metal, stuff like that. I listen to metal for my inspiration.” This influence definitely shows up in his music, which blends metal and rap. His unique blend is what keeps the reviews glowing and the larger and larger crowds coming to his shows, but certainly having droves of nubile, sexy, barely legal women choosing to come up on stage to dance during songs and in many cases, to voluntarily strip on stage makes NECRO’s shows an over the top, fun festival of debauchery.
It may be of no suprise for you to learn that before NECRO was dealing CDs of his music he was dealing drugs to the level that as he says on his myspace page, “he even made up business cards for friends to page him. While he was successful with dealing, the day he got paid $3,000 for 1 beat was the moment that he realized there was a less risky way to make a living.” No doubt, the lessons that he learned from hustling on the street propelled him.
We asked NECRO how did he come to transition and fuse metal to rap-hip hop? What inspired him? “In the projects you’d hear hip hop, it was just like a culture in the projects itself. I just remember just being a kid and being into metal and at the same time hearing hip hop, it was almost the same to me and I never really separated it really in my mind. There was also a station called U68 that would play one video after another. One video you’d see a Queen video, then you’d see Beastie Boys, then you’d see Anthrax, then you’d see RUN DMC …so…we were just being brainwashed like dope. I taught myself how to play. I would pick out sings and shit ya know because I basically had good ears and I was actually able to pick out songs at such a young age and kinda pick it out. I am not technically a good player, but yet technically I am a great player. I can’t really tell ya the chords and the notes, but I can sit down and play parts of technical and insane rhythm shit on guitar. I consider myself a great writer. I’m really dope on bass, like a 70′s bass player, ya know, straight outa of a fuckin 70′s record. When I say 70′s record, I’m talking about 70′s funk, jazz fusion…ya know. I’m talking David Axelrod type shit which is like the type of shit shit you’d see in 70′s movies, ya know, the funky hill shit. I’ll write the craziest shit. I consider myself more head music. I like people to kick the fuck back, in their crib, and then put my shit on and listen and analyze it.”
