Hillel Promotes "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad"
The sassy satire makes its way from coast to coast
 

“We love our little kosher sluts!” screamed comedian “Goddess” Susannah Perlman to the predominately Jewish crowd at the Red Devil Lounge.

In knee-high black leather boots and a sequined blue skirt Perlman demanded for the “Jews to make some noise” before asking if “anyone feels like a whore tonight.”

The offbeat satirical comedy of “Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad” has entertained sold out audiences from their home on the East Coast all the way to San Francisco for the past two years.

“It’s a fun risqué night out,” said Heather Erez, San Francisco Hillel Program Director. “When you grow up going to Sunday school or temple with your family you understand the stereotypes and jokes.”

In the dimly lit lounge with red décor, the over-the-top multi-talented women entertained the crowd with singing, dancing, comedy, music and burlesque.

The cast of the night included “the ringleader” Perlman, burlesque dancers “Darlinda, Just Darlinda,” and “Little Brooklyn,” musician Michelle Citrin, cabaret singer Fat Man Dee, and comedian Cynthia Levin.

One act in particular featured Little Brooklyn braving the combination of Pop Rocks and soda on stage while doing a semi-strip tease to the song “I Want Candy” that left her breasts exposed except for the candy on her nipples.

San Francisco’s Hillel, a Jewish Student Center, was one of the promoters of the event. Hillel is an organization that caters to Jewish students and serves as a social, cultural and religious environment.

The center is associated with 13 schools in the San Francisco area, including SF State.

According to Erez, San Francisco Hillel promoted the show to students because it displays pieces of art and culture from the Jewish community that is geared toward a younger audience.

Among the jokes of the night were stabs at Chico and Davis, the previous college towns they performed in. Perlman, a New Yorker, complained about how hard it was to find Jews in Chico, and the delayed reaction from the audience due to the slow pace of life there. She then equated Davis to Wisconsin.

Ultimately, it is the goal of the girls to get this message across to the young people in their audience:

“Be bold, be brave and do your own thing,” Perlman said.

Erez doesn’t think the show is for everybody.

“I wouldn’t always recommend it to non-Jews because I’m not sure people laugh with us (or) at us,” she said. “If it’s the only thing you see of the Jewish community it may not give you the right impression.”

Nothing was off limits to the entertainers, who made fun of everything from small penises to Kabbalah, calling it “Judaism with a scented candle and a $50 red string that wards off the evil eye.”

Jeremy Borkat, Jewish sophomore at SF State, finds the concept of the show entertaining.

“I think that religion is funny and needs to be made fun of like every other serious thing in the world,” said Borkat, 19. “But people should know the difference between making fun of their own religion and making fun of someone else’s.”

According to Perlman, neither SF State nor Hillel was involved with the show financially, so the cast was given much more freedom with their acts. If it had been an actual college show held on campus it would have been much different and tamer.

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