Mason Lerner is a writer, artist and kvetch in Houston, TX. You can see his work on his website.
Mason Lerner
By Mason Lerner
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Community Yes, There Are Jews In Texas!
We’ve been here the whole time. Believe it or not, Jews were in Texas long before Hurricane Harvey turned our Houston neighborhoods into extensions of the Gulf of Mexico. And it’s not that I don’t appreciate the outpouring of support that’s come our way from the Jewish Community around the world in its aftermath. I…
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Opinion Replace Hebrew School Books With Israeli B-Movies
‘Don’t be a shvitzer,” said the mother to her son as he left to join the IDF. This is but one of the wonderful bits of motherly advice in “Eskimo Limon,” the 1978 Israeli cult classic. “Eskimo Limon” is among the many hilarious Israeli movies from the ’60s and ’70s known as “Bourekas films”: tawdry,…
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