Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Opinion News Quiz: The One With All the Funky Food
ChocoChicken’s chocolate fried chicken and duckfat fries. // Twitter/KristieHang Shrimp, Stalin and Gay Pride signs? This could be the strangest Jewish News quiz of them all. Except…they’re all strange. (Did we mention the cheesecake with bagel crumbs?) Good luck!
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Opinion News Quiz: The One with Michael Douglas’s Jewish Injury
Getty Images Michael Douglas, Russian oligarchs and a whole lot of chickens (human and otherwise) come home to roost in this week’s quiz.
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Opinion News Quiz: Laverne Cox and Michael Douglas Make News
Greed may be good, but even better is having Michael Douglas right here in this week’s news quiz, along with ad men, airline mishaps and a resume builder you can believe in!
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Opinion News Quiz: The One with Mila Kunis and the Mock Katz’s Deli
Getty Images This week brings us Mila Kunis, Katz’s Deli and, yes, a schmaltz joke. Always with the schmaltz jokes.
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Opinion News Quiz: Did You Hear the One About the Beastie Boys?
The Beastie Boys, Groucho and brisket are all together here. It’s the quiz equivalent of a Reuben!
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Opinion News Quiz: The Rolling Stones Rock and Chubby Checker
Getty Images: Alfred ‘Chuck’ Leavell, keyboard player for The Rolling Stones, puts a note into the Western Wall in the old city. Chubby Checker, ultra-Orthodox rabbis and The Rolling Stones reunite for their farewell tour! Ok, so maybe they just unite as part of this week’s news quiz.
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Opinion News Quiz: The Pope and Hummus
Getty Images Herring, hummus and the Pope: Together at last.
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News Jewish Parents Once Panicked About Teens Joining Cults — But No Longer
In 1981, the New York Times wrote about a source of parental anguish that had been growing for about a decade. “From across the United States… American Jews face a special problem: a disproportionate number of their young are defecting to a proliferation of cults.” The Moonies, Hare Krishnas, gurus, yogis — all of these…
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