Oy, Robot

Beliefnet.com posts Liel Liebovitz's article, "Oy, Robot", reprinted from his article "An Unlikely Pairing" in The Jewish Week.

The Biggest Pessah Ever

Article "The Biggest Pessah Ever" by Uriel Heilman for the Jerusalem Post, dated April 29, 2005, mentions Shabot 6000:

Another Internet cartoonist, William Levin, did a version of the popular rapper 50 Cent singing about the Ten Plagues: "Blood in the river/ back off nigga'/ Don't you f--k with 50 Cent/ I'll pull the trigga'." With more than one million hits, the cartoon, at www.shabot6000.com, was ranked No. 7 in the Top 10 "movers and shakers" on the web this week, according to the web tracking company Alexa (The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club ranked No. 2).

"There is a growing, almost clich trend of making Jewish culture 'in-your-face' cool by mixing in elements of hip-hop and rap," Levin said. "I was trying to poke fun at that trend a little bit."

Read the article here (no longer online at JerusalemPost.com).

Shabot Makes Alexa Top Ten Movers & Shakers

Shabot's Seda' Club launches Shabot6000.com into #7 in the Top Ten Movers & Shakers on website traffic metrics service, Alexa.com, for the week of April 25, 2005!

See the web archive of the Alexa Top Ten from 2005 here.