No, everyone isn’t going to dance through the halls of Oheb Tzedek wearing white in the hopes of a tefillin date, besides most of the folks on the upper west side aren’t frum enough to really think of dusting off their tefillin to consecrate them for an actual date, but I digress – this was merely a post to showcase a wonderful event that Bang It Out puts on every year so that singles can meet in an interesting manner.
Everyone is supposed to dress in white, though I’m sure a few rebellious black and white folks show up. Everyone is given a number tag and in what I may call one of the most interesting ways to garner a date – you write down the numbers you are interested in and at the organizers are given the cards with the numbers and if any numbers match – walla. Now I would love to hear from any folks who have attended the Bang It Out Tu B’av party and as to what actually transpires at what I’m sure is to be an awesome people watching event. I would also be interested to know if it ever rained and if it ever turned into a nipple hiding affair – since everyone is supposed to be wearing white.
Bangitout’s Annual TUBAV PARTY! @ The Hudson Beach Cafe in Riverside Park 8pm to 3am. Monday August 15th 1,000 ridiculously good looking Jewish Singles expected! (20s, 30s, 40s) (raindate: tuesday aug16)
According to Jewish Talmudic Tradition, Tubav is the most auspicious night of the year to score, ie meet your bashert. The talmud encourages Jewish singles that on this night, go out, get a P-diddy white outfit, and with an open mind, an open heart and ideally an open bar you will connect.
Please help revive this beautiful tradition by coming out to the Bangitout.com Tubav 2011 outdoor event under the stars. We’re hoping to have over 1000 Jewish single rockstars in Riverside Park to celebrate the summer together and keep the tradition alive.
To make this even easier to go up to that random stranger and break the ice, here is how we’ve set it up so it works:
2. Get an entourage together – There will be 1000 jews there, find some hot friends that will encourage you to do the unthinkable: TALK TO SOMEONE NEW!
3. You’ll get a super cheesy Match # sticker. Slap it on your outfit and start trying to find someone you’d like to date.
4. If you write down their number on your Bangitout Match Card and they write your #, we set you up on a date! (We’ve had 10 couples get married from this absurd chaotic speeddating sorta thing – so have fun with it!)
5. Party like a Rockstar
DJ, Kosher Nosh, sponsored by www.bangitout.com
Tzedakah proceeds will go to Gift Of Life.org to help find a bone marrow match for Ayelet Galena *GET SWABBED!* (take 1 train to 103rd street, walk west till you hit the park, go down stairs and follow signs to the party)
A frum company… called Bang It Out? What?
Did the baalei teshuvah die of laughter before warning them that it sounds like they’re talking about f#cking?
Seriously. I think they should have gone with “I’d hit it” instead.
Nice to see old traditions revived. Still waiting for the frummy version of this, maybe they’ll have one by the time my kids hit marriageable age.
What a fun event on the Upper West Side! How come we’ve never heard of this before? Congrats to the 10 lucky couples who met here in the past…and for the future nuptials to come from this wonderful celebration!
In ancient Israel, they hadn’t invented slips or bras yet, so when the sun shone down on anyone wearing a white dress, you could probably see a whole lot.
Just saying.
Thank you BangItOut.com for giving us all a truly novel concept: getting to see everyone from Shabbos at OZ and The Jewish Center in THE MIDDLE of the week with WHITE CLOTHES ON. Brilliant!
It’s the one time Upper West Siders get to “wear white,” if you know what I mean. If you know what I mean.
If you know what I mean…
If you know what I mean…
I can’t wait to hear the super groovy beats of DJ Kosher Nosh!
DJ K-Nibbles in da Chabad House y’all- make some noise wit da goys!!!!!
Check it: Imma be rockin’ the Tu B’Shvat Seder THIS MONDAY the 15th, which my accountant reminds me is tax day, so bring yo’ aging single homies from da hood and get down wit yo bad Modern Orthodox Liberal selves!!! I can’t wait to see all the single ladies shakin’ bootay on the lawn on the West Sayyid. WEST SAYYID!!!
Remember- It’s DJ Kosher Nosh or it’s a shanda muffin. PAYIS AND LOVE!
does anyone feel like that if they showed up NOBODY would write down their number? =p
go all desperate and write down all 1000 in a frantic self-depreciation session in the corner… thereby letting no one see your face and WHY DID NO ONE WRITE DOWN MY NUMBER?
Uhhh is there really an ortho dating service called “bang it out”?!?!? That alone may be the funniest thing ever!
There used to be an ice cream in Manchester, uk called kosher nosh….just saying 🙂
I attended one of those events. It’s just like every other “singles meet” where everyone just hangs out with their friends and shuns anyone else trying to be friendly. Sure, you can fill your card with the numbers, but be rest assured that anyone who catches your eye won’t reciprocate. The whole UWS singles scene is total BS, filled with “professional singles” who either are looking for someone who can’t possibly exist or don’t know what they are looking for. I haven’t attended OZ or Simchat Torah for years now, and I don’t miss it in the least.
PS, Meanwhile, the community leaders can’t understand why there is such a singles problem today.
Nah, they understand just fine:
Watch “Unattached” -The Rabbi from OZ is quite aware of the times.
But you’re right- it is all BS, and a new paradigm is in order for finding ‘Doxies their ‘Sherts.
I never saw “Unattached”, but I personally heard this rabbi sound off on the singles problem, and to say that he is clueless is an understatement. Granted, some people may indeed be sexually active, but the vast majority of UWS singles never manage to stay in a relationship long enough to even begin sexual activity. That aside, the frequent symposia on the singles crisis amount to nothing more than a succession of speakers wailing about how terrible the situation is. Hence, I stand by my above statement.
I met my fiancée at this party. Fyi.
What the hell is “walla”? It’s “viola” – where did you go to school? Or do you never read?