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Jewish Food Tourney: #3 Challah vs #6 Apples & Honey
Big game today here at the MyJewishLearning.com Kosher Food Invitational (MJLKFI). Of course, it will be a lead up to ...
Music Video of the Day: The Jews of Uganda and Some White Hippy Kid
If you haven’t seen Pesach Stadlin’s Love Song to Islamic Fundamentalists (from a Jew), we highly recommend you hop over ...
Tsnius Is Tsexy
Tsnius, or tzniut, is a word that means modesty, and refers to special Jewish laws about how men and women ...
Special Confession
The Washington Post has an interesting article about the Vatican’s “tribunal of conscience” which is an extra special level of ...
Jewish Words and Knee-Jerk Reactions
Yesterday, Jason bolted out of his office with the news that a plane had crashed into the Hudson.Caught in conversation, ...
The Food Was a Little Salty…
Anyone watch the show Top Chef? On Wednesday night at 10 on Bravo, you can watch what I think is ...
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 ...
The Bible: The Cover Version
The most lasting stories are the ones that transcend circumstance–geography, culture, even linguistic and temporal idioms. An amazing, mind-blowing story ...
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 ...
Liquid Love
I don’t know Molly Young, but she is about to become my new best friend.Anyone who seems to love Cel-Ray ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #2 Lox & Bagel vs #10 Gefilte Fish
That’s right! An all fish matchup.But before we get to it, I can’t write a post without mentioning that #8 ...
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, ...
You’re Doing It All Wrong: Latkes
I know latkes are so two weeks ago, but I just found this video and think it’s kind of awesome. ...
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 ...
Who’s on 1st? What’s on 2nd?
It was bad enough when the 2nd Avenue Deli closed and then reopened not on 2nd Avenue. But now owner ...