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Jewish Guilty Pleasures

I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite guilty pleasures recently. What makes something a guilty pleasure? I think it ...

Rabbi Schmuel Buckman Sings the Hits

This video is an oldie but a goodie. At first glance, it seems pretty generic and overdone. But believe me, ...

Poets with Chutzpah

In honor of National Poetry Month (that’d be April), the new Twin Cities-based website TCJewfolk.com is running a series called ...

Holocaust Handbag

I have never actually cared about purses. I will ooh and ahh over a nice pair of earrings, and I ...

Let’s Talk Dessert

One of my favorite things about Shabbat is that it gives me a weekly excuse to try new recipes. This ...

The Hasidic Numa Numa

If you haven’t gotten the flavour of Jeremy Moses’s writing, what are you waiting for? Here’s the direct link on ...

DeLeon vs. the East Coast

What, you might ask, do Sephardic Jewish rock stars do for fun? I don’t know, but up until five minutes ...

Imagine you don’t know how to read a novel.

In his last posts, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building ...

You’re Not Jewish. Deal With It.

When I lived in Ireland and I would tell people I was Jewish they invariably got all excited and were ...

Superman Never Had a Bris

We all know Superman has Jewish roots, but until today I never thought about whether he was circumcised. Now, of ...

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