Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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News A Bisl Yiddish and the Years Disappear
It’s a little like pennies from heaven, or, really, Hanukkah gelt tumbling out of the sky. You’re having a normal, adult day — work, worries, whatever — when suddenly you hear a Yiddish word. Sometimes it’s schmear or schlump. But once in a while it’s shlof (sleep) or shayne (pretty), and suddenly the timeline of…
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News The Talmud on Watching TV
It’s almost as if the Talmud writers understood what would happen if we watched too much TV. They knew it would drive us wild with worry. From the morning shows to the local news at night, all we hear about is danger, danger, danger — right? Salmonella on the cutting board! BPA in baby bottles!…
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News Summers of Love At a Bungalow Colony
‘You! You look great! Let’s take a picture! We all still look the same!” Really? Thirty or 40 years after they last met as spades-addicted teens, and they still look the same? Well, maybe they do — to each other. Maybe all it takes is meeting up again at the same bungalow colony and seeing…
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News You Say Mandel Bread, I Say Biscotti
Mandel bread makes most Jews — or roughly 0.2% of the world’s population — swoon. Biscotti make everyone who has ever entered a Starbucks swoon, or roughly 53% of the world’s population. These are guesstimates, of course, done on the back of an espresso-stained napkin. But my point (unlike a biscuit dipped too long in…
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News To Videotape or Not To Videotape
Attending the baby naming of his partner’s niece, Jeffrey Shandler was handed a video camera and asked to do the honors. Dutifully, he recorded the event. Then he returned to the house with the family and … promptly watched it. Why? Why do we videotape major events and, increasingly, minor ones? And what determines whether…
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News Sabbath Liberation
Imagine a touchable world. That’s the Purell slogan, a slogan that has convinced legions of Americans, especially parents, that they cannot leave the house without a good-luck charm to ward off all evil. Er, without a small vial of anti-bacterial lotion. But in fact, it is easy to imagine a touchable world: We’re living in…
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Israel News Tips for a Day That Is Hard To Say
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News The Exodus Rap
Well my name is Moses, you can call me Mo, I was found in the bulrushes ages ago. Grew up in the palace, Tutankhamen was my neighbor. We lived like kings thanks to cheap slave labor. (Snap snap) Boy! Bring me another cheese blintz– I was the first Jewish Egyptian Prince. (CHORUS) Go go! Go…
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