The Moral Minority
_(excerpted from original article)_ When you think about the intersection of religion and politics in American life today, certain words come to mind. Words like “evildoers” and “creation science.” Our...
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_(excerpted from original article)_ “I’m black and a Jew—I swear I could spend years in therapy,” Rain Pryor says. “But what’s the point? I’d rather write about my life and perform it.” Pryor, the...
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Urban Kvetch: Gardens in Brooklyn
Gardens in Brooklyn People from Brooklyn always want to show you their gardens. “I could never afford this garden in Manhattan,” they tell me. Come on. Your garden is three square feet. You can’t fit...
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Urban Kvetch: Anti-Anti Smokers
Anti-anti smokers Smokers are bad enough. But even worse are the vociferous groups (sometimes nonsmokers themselves!) that brand efforts to limit smoking as “fascist.” As long as I have to breathe your...
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Urban Kvetch: JDate
JDate The Internet ad reads: “760,424 blue-eyed women at JDate.com and counting,” and another tallies green-eyed men. Is JDate encouraging us to JHate? Of course lots of Jews are light as can be. But...
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Urban Kvetch: Faux Mitzvahs
Faux Mitzvahs What’s the average American kid to do when his/her Jewish counterparts are having the bar/bat mitzvahs of the century? Have their parents throw a faux mitzvah The post Urban Kvetch: Faux...
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Urban Kvetch: Schnorrers at Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery
Schnorrers at Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery For crying out loud, this is like trying to win at three card monty. The house wins every time. Schimmel’s has been here since 1910. Do you really think that you...
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Urban Kvetch: Homies
Homies David Gonzalez says he created these one-inch tall plastic figurines with names such as “Big Vato,” “Dr. Bomba” and “El Grumpy” out of love, and we can only imagine that it was for the same...
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Urban Kvetch: Over-eager Busboys
Over-eager busboys “Get away from our plates!” We don’t care if there are only morsels left. You know, in many places in the world it’s actually bad manners for a busboy to lurk and wait to snatch up...
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Urban Kvetch: Costa Rica
Costa Rica Now, I’ve got nothing against the people or even the land. The problem I have is with people who think they’re doing anything other than paying for the right to say they’re not at Miami...
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