Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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News Quiz Yourself on Jewish News Know-How
As we remember the year just passed, we realize we’ve already forgotten a lot of it. Just like that guy in the debates who couldn’t remember the three departments he wanted to get rid of. (What was his name again?) (And what was that department he forgot?) (And what did that guy who spent all…
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News Born on the Lower East Side
Oh, to live in a teeming tenement! That’s not a sentiment you hear a lot these days. In fact, it’s doubtful that the great wave of Jews immigrating to New York at the turn of the last century would have uttered it, either. But to the tenements they came, and New York has never been…
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News Hooking Up for the High Holy Days
‘I’ve got the apples. Now all I need is you, honey.” Okay, so maybe no one’s using that line. But come the High Holidays there’s more than one reason tickets to synagogue cost so much. It’s the hottest singles scene in town. “When I was younger, my mom and I used to sit in the…
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News Mom-Approved Bucket List
Thirteen’s a big age in Judaism: the pinnacle of a Jewish childhood. The problem, of course, is that pinnacles are easy to fall off. After a bar or bat mitzvah, many parents (including yours truly) stop sending their kids to Hebrew school. As for the “non-mitzvahed” teens, well, they’re generally not jonesing for Talmud study,…
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News 50 Jewish Things To Do Before 13
Bucket lists are kind of sad, focused as they are on the stabbing regrets we’ll feel on our death bed. As if dying weren’t enough of a downer. On the other hand, the lists do present a nifty, compact way to remind ourselves that the time to enjoy life is now. That’s why I was…
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News Love It. Fear It. Smear It.
You walk into the restaurant, and there, at the center of each table, is a help-yourself container of cocaine. Well, Jewish cocaine. Schmaltz. “People get a little confused,” explained David Zimmerman, owner of the uber-Jewish eatery Sammy’s Roumanian Steak House, on New York City’s Lower East Side. That is, diners understand the bowl of pickles…
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News Ancient App Called the Afikomen
How smart were our forebears? Without a single pad, pod or phone, indeed back when the only angry birds were the ones wondering who got the worm first, our elders figured out a way to keep children awake and excited for a whole night of religious discourse. They invented an app called the afikomen. That…
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News God Gave Us Lemons for a Reason
Does every cloud have a silver lining? Or are plenty of them filled with rain that slickens the highway and jackknifes the tractor-trailer? There’s really no way to answer the question, because what if that tractor-trailer snarls traffic, making the lady 17 cars behind it late for her interview? And what if that means she…
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