Iranian Jewish Chronicle

Article "Passover the Animation, 50 Cent Style" by Kristopher White, printed July 10, 2005, for The Iranian Jewish Chronicle

KALX Interview

William Levin is interviewed by Rebekah Kouy-Ghadosh of Berkeley KALX for the May Day (and Passover) Show, May 1, 2005

From the Oy Mendele! podcast site:

Shabot6000 creator Ben Baruch discusses how and why he draws a comic strip about an Orthodox man who builds a robot to do work for him on shabbat, only to have his techno-shabbat-goy aspirations frustrated by said robot's conversion to Judaism. Baruch also makes animations using the Shabot6000 cast, and you can hear a couple of bits from Seda Club, a pretty hilarious Passover/50 Cent spoof.

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.

A Robot Speaks, and Online Fans Express Joy

Article "A Robot Speaks, and Online Fans Express Joy" by Steven I. Weiss for The Jewish Daily Forward, February 25, 2005:

Christmas Eve comes with a lot of anticipation for those who celebrate the holiday. But for thousands of Jewish fans of the online comic strip “ShaBot6000,” anticipation took a different form: On December 24, 2004, their favorite cartoon character spoke.

Read the article here.

Shabot on UJC

Liel Leibovitz's article "An Unlikely Pairing" from The Jewish Week is reprinted on UJC.com.

An Unlikely Pairing

Article "An Unlikely Pairing" by Liel Liebovitz for The Jewish Week, posted February 11, 2005:

The strip embodies Levin’s mission: an irreverent, funny, yet ultimately respectful examination of Orthodox Judaism. To enhance the humor with a dollop of edification, he concludes each strip with footnotes that lucidly clarify key religious concepts. In just one year of weekly online publication, Shabot and his master have taken on several pillars of Jewish life, from tzedakah to JDate. And it just might take a robot, Levin hopes, to start a serious conversation about Judaism.

Read the rest of the article.