Chabad Gets "Weinerized"

On Wednesday January 31, Cafe Chabad, seeing a record crowd with over 125 students and community members, hosted famed comic Marc Weiner. Best known for his '90s Nickelodeon show "Weinerville," Weiner presented Jewber Jabber, featuring his hilariously confounding first encounters with Orthodox Judaism that led him toward greater Jewish observance. Doing his classic shtick most of the time while ingeniously improvising off the crowd with his sharp wit, Weiner's show kept such strong momentum that attendees begged him to keep going after over an hour of never-ending belly laughs. Weiner bent to the massive peer pressure, losing no time donning an army uniform with a few forks in the front pocket and shouting the differences between "vultures," "scrapers," and "fuhlaters" at Bar and Bat Mitzvah kiddushes. Weiner also played off the crowd to do a true-to-life "Swiper" routine as "Dora the Explorer" character Swiper the Fox, which Weiner voices along with the show's "Map." The crowd throughly enjoyed being "Weinerized," and we hope to see everyone at the next Chabad Cafe on April 27!