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A Different Night For LiLo
Hopefully, you’re like me and the first website you check in the morning is TMZ. You never know, something big ...
Na Nach Nachman Punks
I kind of love this video, but I’m not sure how I feel about it morally. It’s the Moshiach Oi! ...
Being the “Kvetch” Guy
On Monday, Michael Wex wrote about the birth of his idea for his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business . ...
Shooting Books
If you were being shot at, and your only means of defense was a work of 2010 fiction, which should ...
Bar Mitzvah Dance Class
I don’t know if I was the most awkward thirteen year old ever. I definitely wasn’t the coolest but, hey, ...
Birth of a Family Business
Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch, and the new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. He will be ...
A Stay at the Talmud Hotel in Taiwan
Way back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about the weird Chinese trend of loving all things Jewish. Kind ...
Chuck Norris and a Mezuzah
A little while ago we told you about Mezuzazine — an amazing little ‘zine about the strange and wonderful commandment ...
The Most Processed Food of All
I’ve been getting steadily more obsessed — via reading the book Kosher Nation and my wife working at a restaurant, ...
A Different Holiday Tradition
All this time, I thought cookies were meant for eating.There is a wonderful food truck near here that serves up ...