"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Rosa Parks was accused of having chutzpah back in the Civil Rights era.
Wex was recently interviewed by Maseena Ziegler for her article in Forbes about chutzpah.
He gives the Yiddish perspective of the word (chutzpah being a bad thing - meaning you're ill-mannered and rude) versus the English usage which is usually more... Read more here
As you know I like to provide our readers with ideas for great recipes on Passover.
Well our dear friend and Jewish cooking maven Leah Koenig has come up with three fabulous breakfast recipes on Chow.com.
I'm especially excited about the cherry matzo brei - it looks completely delicious. Leah managed to find kosherle pesach pure vanilla essence. I always thought that you couldn't have it because of the... Read more here
We didn't want to tell you about this until we got the cheque.
Wearing his trusty lab coat and with Farfl the Wonderdog by his side Dr. Wex embarks on research
Wex is writing a book about Jewish food for Scribner. He's hoping that Mrs. Wex will cook him some of the extraordinary things he is discovering during his research. Mrs. Wex is a little alarmed.
You can follow Wex's research and findings in... Read more here
Only Michael Wex could daven next to a guy U.S. government investigators allege to be the ringleader of “one of the largest immigration fraud schemes to have ever been committed in our country.”
This news comes on the back of police being called to the Markham Street Shul on Yom Kippur when a request not to use a cellphone on shul property on yontef ended in a scuffle.
Seriously, who knew that life in... Read more here
Last week Wex was asked to comment on New York Times journalist David Brooks' piece on his African safari vacation, and specifically on his use of the Yiddish word haimish (sic).
Although he has no problem with Brooks' understanding of the word heymish (to give it the YIVO transliteration), Wex does have something to say about whether or not it's appropriate to use in the context of a luxury... Read more here
