by Marilla | Apr 11, 2016 | Interviews, Rhapsody in Schmaltz, Tablet
Michael Wex is not a chef. He’s not a lifelong challah baker, an avid cookbook collector, or even, by his own admission, much of a home cook. But his new book, Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It, might just be the most important Jewish...
by Marilla | Nov 10, 2011 | Tablet
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...
by Marilla | Aug 19, 2011 | Tablet
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...
