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Nov
10

My cantor was on the lam

My cantor was on the lam If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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...
Aug
19

This just in: “chutzpah” is being used correctly!

This just in: “chutzpah” is being used correctly! It's a constant source of irritation to Wex that the word chutzpah is often misused in English to mean having balls instead of its more accurate meaning of displaying unbelievable cheek. So he was chuffed to bits when Tablet asked him to comment on the recent resurgence of the use of the word in connection with the US debt crisis. To make sure you're not misusing this powerful Yiddish word, and to find out...
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