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Sephardic Traditions Make My Brain Hurt
Being home for Passover has brought back a couple of memories from my past life. For one, Canada is cold. ...
The 11th Plague: Genital Warts
This almost made my stomach as queezy as eight days of matzah: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – ...
White House Seder
The best part of the Daily Show’s coverage of the White House seder, may be John Stewart’s admission that most ...
Who Knows Thirteen? (Answer Must Be In Ladino)
It is well established that my family is as dorky as it gets when it comes to languages and linguistics, ...
Germany, is it really that funny?
Word on the street is that Heeb Magazine is working on an “Germany Issue.” Since they’ve already done biblical humor ...
That Fashion Trend Is Sooooo 1993…I Mean, 1893.
If you know me, you would know that I am a fashion guru. I applied to be on Project Runway ...
Turning a Shul into a Racy Home
A while back I wrote about sacred spaces like Churches and synagogues being turned into homes, and how I thought ...
Hametz Party
During Passover, there’s a custom to not even mention the word “bread.” This might just be a Hasidic custom, one ...
Interview: Sana Krasikov
Writing about Russians is a difficult business. The world of Russian literary fiction has a distinguished heritage that exists almost ...
18 Under 18
Parents love to brag about their kids. By the way, did you hear from my parents that I work for ...