Warning: while the video below looks like it was produced in 1942 with Internet gerbils spinning a fiber-optic power wheel, it’s not. Major League Dreidel exists, people participate–there’s one guy who calls himself the “Spintuation” (get it?)– and believe it or not, I’m actually devoting a section of my book to trying to understand the importance of these kinds of ironically Jewish competitions and events. For now, though, please enjoy the sight of a plastic toy munching on a potato pancake.
The Spinagogue!
Published by Theodore
Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews. View more posts