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Life WTF: Is The Tide Pod Challenge Kosher?
Q: Is the Tide Pod Challenge kosher? A: … NO! There is an explicit biblical commandment against doing stupid s–t that endangers your health. Genesis 9:5 states, “But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life,…
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The Schmooze Jason Segel Talks to Marc Maron About Growing Up Half-Jewish
(JTA) — Actor Jason Segel — best known as the star of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “How I Met Your Mother” — opened up on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast this week about growing up half-Jewish and complete outsider. Segel sat down for the Monday podcast ahead of the release of film in which he plays tortured…
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The Schmooze How About Some Anti-Semitism With That Reddit Toaster?
Would you like some butter on your toast? Also did-you-know-Jews-are-going-to-destroy-Europe… I mean, do prefer margarine? Apparently, in the world of anti-Semites, liking DIY toasters means you must also hate Jews, because, you know. Or at least, , that’s what this one Redditor thought. When people admired his DIY toaster (which, though inventive, is quite a…
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