Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Opinion Quiz: Warren Buffett and BBQ Joint’s Jewish Plan
Welcome, readers! This week’s news quiz takes us from ultra-Orthodox England to Corky’s Ribs & BBQ in Memphis, Tenn. with a stop by Warren Buffett’s brain and heart to see what he believes in! And was that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul we just glimpsed? Did he really…?
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Opinion News Quiz: Kate Upton Says No, Eli Roth’s Injury
Welcome, readers! This week’s news quiz will have you kicking yourself — or at least thinking about Jews who kick, even as you also think about the sea, the South, the shekel and… breasts. (If you weren’t already.) Enjoy!
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Opinion Quiz: Oklahoma Misstep and Winnipeg Divide
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News How Carob on Lag B’Omer Taught Jews To Be Cynical
Soon it will be Lag B’Omer, or didn’t you know? If you’re like me, you didn’t. Not a clue. After all, this is not a front-of-the-pack holiday. (“Lag” is right there in the name.) But it’s a holiday with a very cool history and one enduring quirk. Historywise, it celebrates a pause in a plague….
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Opinion Will Anthony Weiner Come Back?
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News Welcoming Elijah in the Age of Guns and Newtown
For many years — centuries —Passover was the scariest time of the year for Jews because it more or less coincides with Easter. “That’s the time when people would do their Passion plays,” writer and rabbi Abby Sosland said. Those gruesome re-enactments of the Crucifixion did not exactly enhance Christian-Jewish relations, and Sosland said, “There…
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Culture Trauma-rama, Hebrew School Style
If you went to Hebrew school, you probably have one of these. No, not a prayer book given to you by the sisterhood — though of course you have one of those, too (with the program from your bat mitzvah still stuck inside). I’m talking about something else: a story about a Hebrew school moment…
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News Being Around Gentiles Brings Out the ‘Jew’ in Us
“ You call that a Kiddush?” whispered my husband, referring to the spread that synagogues offer after services. Except we were in a Catholic church. Congregants were receiving their communion wafers — a fact not lost on my darling. But there was just something about being in a church and watching the wedding of a…
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