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When big shots go all to pot…

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The shocking recent slide in stock markets around the world could well leave many a private investor and Wall Street maven on the verge of turning into a knakker on a nun, “a knakker without the n” (but with the initial k). A knakker is a “big shot,” the sort of person who does everything with knak, with enough...

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The Pre-Rosh Hashanah shnor season

Now that the warm weather has finally arrived and Jews who lead traditional lives have embarked on the Three Weeks of mourning that precede Tisha b’Ov, the Ninth of Av, the day when both Temples were destroyed, the pre-Rosh Hashana shnor-season is nearly upon us. Jewish mailboxes will soon be filling up with letters from Jewish organizations of every sort, all of them competing for Jewish charitable...

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Sticking out a kosher little pig’s foot

With the midterm elections approaching almost as quickly as the Days of Awe, politicians are making promises about their behavior for the next four years while Jews prepare to offer the Lord a convincing account of their own recent actions. Performed honestly, these are noble pursuits, but self-interest can often cause them to be corrupted by the less-than-strictly-kosher activity called aroysshteln a...

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Advice for Mel Gibson

Vos bay a nikhtern af der lung iz bay a shikern af der tsung, “What’s in a sober person’s lung is on the drunk one’s tongue”: people who have had too much to drink don’t know which of their thoughts should remain unspoken. Just ask Mel Gibson, whose recent statements to the Malibu police seem to have confirmed the prejudices that he denied when The Passion of the Christ was released. Gibson hot...