As a (half) Jew, I pity poor St. Nick. These thing my colleagues are calling him–the fat pagan stealing cookies, the superstar holiday perv-lush who forces children to adore him–these are not his fault. These are our fault. Yes, I’m going to point the finger right back at Jews, along with Gentiles. The only reason …
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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 …
Well, yeah, probably—according to both society and biology. Exhibit A: The New York Times’ Motherlode blog, which today features the hemming and hawing of the fabulously named Nicole Sprinkle, who when she’s not starring in golden shower videos can’t make up her mind whether to hire a 23-year-old man with good references as a babysitter: …
Since today is the first day of the eight you might know as Chanuka/xанука/חֲנֻכָּה, I decided to stop flaming up the Dancing with the Stars chatrooms just long enough to track down the Old Testament chapters that talk about why exactly we should play with our dreidels. I give you, then, 1 Maccabees Chap. 4. …
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