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Mort Laitner
Jul 16, 2025, 9:23 PM
Tickle Me Elmo
On the top shelf of my guest room closet, I spotted the Tickle Me Elmo I had bought for my grandkids. I carefully reached up, took the plush toy in my arms, and cradled it like a newborn. I...
Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
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About all the good that diehard Antisemites do for the Jews
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Sarah Tuttle-Singer
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Michael Feldstein
Jun 26, 2025, 7:29 AM
Banging It Out for 25 Years
If you were 20-something, single, and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the early 2000s, you’d likely be at Congregation Oheb Zedek on Friday night checking out the social scene and at the Great Lawn at...
Mark E. Paull
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It started as Neruda. It ended as Shabak.
In Israel, your garbage bin doesn’t just hold trash. It holds opinions. Territory. Stories. Sometimes even a verse or two. It might even be under surveillance. One of my best friends—someone I love in the kind of quiet, deep way that doesn’t...
Mort Laitner
Jun 8, 2025, 11:22 PM
Jewish Mamales
The other day, as I sat in my friend Lee's car, listening to him tell a tale about his yiddisha momma. Yes, I know what you're thinking. "Mort, another story about Jewish moms---like we haven't heard enough about these creatures...
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Totally Rich Use Multiple Protections
Satire Some say the $400 million Qatari plane gift needs to be debugged before it'll be suitable as Airforce One. That's a ridiculous waste of effort, time, and money. Trump never kept a secret. Why not give Qatar the scoops? Some...
Harold Behr
May 21, 2025, 9:59 AM
My grandfather’s last will and his grandson’s first one
My maternal grandfather, Dov Ber Levin, whom I remember simply as ‘zeide,’ was a devout Orthodox Jew and passionate Zionist. He was a man of stocky build, with a neatly trimmed white moustache and beard, who, according to my...
Mort Laitner
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Dry Bones
When I learned Yaacov Kirschen had passed away, I was deeply saddened. Yaacov's Dry Bones comics were my favorites. I loved reading the strip in The Jerusalem Post. I even bought a Dry Bones Haggadah, which I proudly read...
Laura Fein
May 9, 2025, 12:19 PM
Zara, are you listening? Sweating the sweater
By the time you’ve had four daughters finish eighth grade at yeshiva day school, you’d think you’d know what they need to wear for graduation picture day. So when the moms of my fifth daughter’s friends asked for my expertise,...
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