"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!In order to relieve the tedium induced by weeks of reading nothing but the Bible, the Talmud, and sundry commentaries on tractates Avoyde Zoro and Khulin, including some fairly complicated sections of the Shulkhan Orukh and its successors, I've had to pick up the pace of my non-work-related reading. Science fiction has... 
So...much...sponge cake...
Passover's done, Bob Hope's on the TV, serenading Jane Russell with "Buttons and Bows," it's overcast and slightly rainy in Toronto, but Jane Russell has just taken over the whole of my fifty-one inch television screen–my ancestors thought that they got manna from heaven?–and life is pretty much back to normal. First thing Monday morning, I'll take another step on my long,... 
I'd like to blame Pesach shopping for my failure to write a blog post last week, but Mrs. Wex, a berye of the very first order, has long since had all the makings of kosher-for Passover Farfelroons safely stowed in knotted plastic bags in a corner of our basement, directly beneath a photo of the Strettiner Rebbe in his kitchen ha-kadosh, circa 1977.
Pesach shopping takes care of itself, it's the shnorring... 
Barth Gimble makes everything better.
"I spent Purim at a shiva" is just further proof that phrases that sound great as Country & Western titles are a lot less fun when they describe your life. Four people I know died in the past week, among them an uncle for whom "beloved" was a lot more than a term in an obituary.
And we've got Pesach cleaning to look forward to.
So praise the Lord for YouTube, which... 
It's not too late to buy a Purim shirt. Click on the image above.
With Purim almost here, it's time for me to recall the observations about homentashn that I made a few years ago in Just Say Nu.
In writing about certain types of Yiddish slang, I remarked that pirge (think "perogie") and knish (think beef) can both be used rather vulgarly to refer to those parts of the female anatomy that respectable... 