Lisa Mayer, known as The Maine Rebbetzin, tells her funny stories on The PooPooPoo Podcast, heard in 20 countries.
Lisa Mayer
By Lisa Mayer
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Culture Jimmy Carter, Bubby and me
What happened when my grandmother took my little sister and me to President Carter's inauguration
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Yiddish World Bubbe and the pimp who lived upstairs
My grandmother’s neighbor was a skinny, quiet, nebbishy man. But he had a heck of a secret
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Culture How My Hebrew School Teacher Taught Me Who To Vote For on Election Day
My kindergarten teacher at Yeshiva Central Queens was not modern—Mora Ruth had obvious favorites, stared at us while we ate lunch, called us made-up names, and totally let us do gross things like sniff each other’s tushies. I loved her. The only thing I didn’t like about Kindergarten, back in 1969, was that if you…
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Culture Her Cousin Just Wanted To Pick Some Peaches — What Could Be So Terrible?
I was 8 years old and was standing on the front lawn of my house in Queens with my little sister, who was 4. We were standing under our favorite tree — a peach tree, a glorious, bursting peach tree, laden and heavy with ripe, fuzzy fruit. Lots of times, my sister and I would…
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The Schmooze Grimm Dioramas for Young and Old
When Tine Kindermann was a little girl, she thought all Americans liked to dress up as trees. Patrolling her city in West Germany after the Holocaust, camouflaged soldiers would wear leaves as part of their uniforms. Now, after 20 years living in the United States, Kindermann has let us peep into secret worlds, juxtapositions of…
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