Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Opinion News Quiz: Was Elvis Jewish at Heart?
Wikimedia Commons Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley and Harry Houdini. It’s no illusion; they are all bound together in this week’s quiz. Good luck getting out of this one!
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Opinion News Quiz: Did You Hear the One About Julia Child and Chubby Rabbis?
Getty Images Overweight rabbis, 100-year-old sex therapists and Nazi spaghetti. Oh – and Amy Winehouse. Time for you to dive into this week’s Jewish News Quiz!
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Opinion News Quiz: What Jewish Character Did Robin Williams Play?
Getty Images Mayor Bloomberg, Robin Williams and Leonard Nimoy are all together in this week’s news quiz – something that probably never happened in real life. But I suppose it might have.
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Opinion News Quiz: A Wig by Any Other Name
Lox and socks. No, it’s not a newly discovered Dr. Seuss book – it’s this week’s quiz, including a visit to Starbucks , nursery school and Yankee Stadium. Jump in!
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Opinion News Quiz: What is Javier Bardem’s Big Regret?
Singers, swingers and Klingons . They’re all here in this week’s quiz, along with Javier Bardem — who probably wishes he wasn’t.
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Opinion News Quiz: What Do You Call a Jew in Alaska?
Thinkstock Penguins, Zumba and dirty pictures. If that doesn’t scream Jewish News Quiz, what does?
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Opinion News Quiz: What Did John Kerry Say This Week?
Getty Images John Kerry, Henry Kissinger and Natlie Portman? It must be this week’s Jewish News Quiz! Or perhaps it’s the hummus talking.
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News Hasidic in the Heat
Aren’t you shvitzing in that? To those of us who recently made the gleeful switch to shorts and tees from pants and sweaters, the garb of some Orthodox and pretty much all Hasidic Jews can look painfully off-season. Long coats, long sleeves, long skirts, long stockings, long side curls — well, those probably aren’t a…
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