Jen Simon
By Jen Simon
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Life I’m Jewish – Wish Me a Merry Christmas Anyway, Dammit
Every year, conservatives declare there’s a war on Christmas if a manger is barred from a federal building or if there is no Christmas tree in their kid’s school. The outrage is even often focused on the Starbuck’s audacity to celebrate the holiday by printing offensive cups – this time depicting a lesbian couple. The…
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The Schmooze Memo To Whole Foods: Jews Don’t Eat Cake On Yom Kippur
If you don’t see anything wrong with this cake my friend found at a Whole Foods in Rockville, Maryland, I’ll let you in on a secret: Jewish people observe Yom Kippur by fasting. As in, not eating. So, no cake. Not even if it’s been decorated with every well-known symbol of the Jewish religion including…
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