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Tweet One Your Love
Okay, I’m not Stevie Wonder, and chances are you aren’t, either — but let’s not forget the grand Jewish tradition ...
Find Me an Online Match!
After speaking with Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, and Orthodox matchmaker Chana Rachel Frumin, I wanted to speak with someone who ...
Many Old Jews, Just One Number
Old Jews Telling Jokes has a tried, tested, and true formula. It goes something like this: Old Jews + Jokes ...
Judd Apatow Reads Our Blog (Or Slate)
I mean, who can blame the guy, right? Judd Apatow, promoting his new film, Funny People (Which I’m so confused ...
Gay Jewish Hip-Hop Saturday Night
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...
A Flower of Ashkenazi Frizz
In her last blogs, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about some of her favorite books.In the months preceding its publication, Jean ...
Matchmaker, Make Me A Millionaire!
Coming up on August 5th is Tu B’Av, (the 15th of Av), a Jewish day for matchmaking and love. According ...
The Tagged Tanakh
When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...
The Smell of Old England
In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.”Here in the U.S., ...
Joanna Smith Rakoff: Parallel Lives
In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an ...