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Network Jews: Seth Cohen, The O.C.’s Lovable Dork
The O.C.’s Seth Cohen is a lie. The lie that, when given the choice between a typical, brooding TV hunk, and his dorky, quick-witted friend, you would see pass the brawn and choose the second banana....
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Culture Kvetch: Gabriel García Márquez and the Slow Fade of Memory
Over the weekend, the Telegraph reported that novelist Gabriel García Márquez has dementia and has stopped writing. Speaking to a group of students in Cartagena, Gabo’s brother Jaime García Márquez...
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Tales of a Competitive Bageler
I happen to be one of those people who look very Jewish, not in an I-have-brown-curly-hair way, but in a straight out of Fiddler on the Roof kind of way. Last time I saw my father he told me I looked...
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Learning Web Programming for Zayde
“So, what are you learning?” Every conversation I ever had with Ben Zion Wacholder, my Zayde (grandfather), turned to that same question. When I was in Yeshiva high school, I would start telling Zayde...
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Hebrew National and Me: Answering to a Higher Authority
When people ask about my dietary habits, I tell them that I’m more or less vegetarian. When pressed, I explain that I keep kosher and, because I don’t trust myself to prepare for consumption anything...
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Network Jews: Max Blum from Happy Endings
If you’re the type of person who likes to compare all your friend-filled sitcoms to Friends, you might want to dismiss Max Blum (Adam Pally) as a classic Joey. The writers of Happy Endings are on to...
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Not Your Bubbe’s Recipe: Pistachio Mandel Bread
There’s a revolution brewing. This isn’t a freedom mic, military coup, or hostile-romper-takeover type of revolution either. It’s a Jewish ethnic-food revolution. Based primarily in Manhattan...
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Streaming Jewish Music on My iPhone
The Intersect World Radio application for the iPhone represents the promise of an earth made microscopic by technology. Whether you want the news from Lagos or the latest in acoustic Norwegian folk...
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Anti-Semitic Elmo Heads Out West, Boasts of Cash and Sushi
It looks like anti-Semitic Elmo—last seen getting arrested in Times Square last month—has headed out West, seeking greener pastures and fatter wallets. According to Michael Wilson, a writer for the...
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I’ve Seen the Future of Jewish Food, and There Are Matzoh Balls
This past weekend, Mile End, Tablet Magazine, and ABC Home teamed up to present The Future of Jewish Food, where insiders from across the food industry talked Jews, food, and Jews eating food. Top...
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