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Dropping the S Bomb
I have a friend in his fifties who has been dating for about thirty years now. He’s a smart, interesting ...
Raise a Glass to Coney Island
Well, it’s official: Astroland has closed, and it isn’t opening up again. Although rumors are flying everywhere (am I the ...
Holocaust Literature is Over (Maybe)
As Meredith noted recently, the Holocaust film industry is experiencing (even by Holocaust film industry standards) a very successful run, ...
Dumb and Dumbererer
I’ve been getting a lot of Facebook invitations to ask me to attend Pro-Israel rallies the past couple of weeks.There ...
Boxing for the Lord
Dmitriy Salita is a Ukranian-born, Brooklyn-raised boxer who, at the age of 26, has an undefeated record over 26 career ...
Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
The ultra-frum neighborhood where I grew up in Chicago has been subject to anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism in the past ...
Halakha and Avoiding Civilian casualties
England’s Jewish Chronicle is running a great Op-Ed by Daniel Reisel about the Jewish legal obligation to avoid civilian casualties ...
J Street, I Almost Loved You
In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz devotes two chapters to people who he refers to as “More Israeli than ...
Chrismukkah Cookbook A Waste of Cash
I was out with a friend on Sunday and came across the Chrismukkah Cookbook. Written by Ron Gompertz the cookbook ...
At Least They Weren’t Pulled In to Make a Minyan
On New Year’s Eve, while you were busy not remembering your evening, two men dressed as Hasidic Jews robbed Dialite ...