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A hilarious compendium of traditional wisdom, recipes, and lore from the authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane . Modern Jews have forgotten cherished traditions and become, sadly, all- too assimilated. It's enough to make you meshugeneh . Today's Jews need to relearn the... read more
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A young rabbi, recently installed in a synagogue, is informed by the shamos that the building has rats.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Just in Case"
2. How to Purchase, Make, and Serve Too Much Food
3. How to Change Your Name
4. The Temples
5. How to Obtain and Mount a Mezuzah
6. Learn to Embrace Fiddler
7. How to Order Cantonese Food
8. Use the Jewish Calendar!
9. Use the Bible to Tell If Your Wife Is Unfaithful
10. How and Why to Make Chopped Liver
11. How to Write and Speak Like a Rabbit in 1953
12. How to Put Your Yarmulke On So It Stays On
13. How to Be Passive-Aggressive, If That's What You Insit on Calling It
14. The Major Holidays
15. The Other Holidays
16. How to Not Accept the First Table You're Shown to at a Restaurant
17. Circumcision: Take a Little Off the Tip
18. Dig That Meshugge Klezmer!
19. How and Why to Deflect a Compliment
20. So You Want to Have an Opinion About... ISLAM
21. Let's *Get* a Traditional Divorce
22. Worrying I: How to Worry
23. Worrying II: What to Worry About
24. How to Give a Backhanded Compliment
25. Chillin' and Illin' with Tefillin
26. The Original Bam! The Basics of Mah-Jongg
27. Reasons, in Spite of Everything, to Still Have a Bar Mitzvah
28. Introduction to Hondling
29. Learn to Whisper So That Everyone Can Hear You (and Then Deny That You "Said Anything")
30. How to Build a Sukkah
31. So You Want to Have an Opinion About... ANTI-SEMITISM AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL
32. Let's Keep Kosher, Finally!
33. Disciplining Your Son the Old Testament Way
34. How to Recognize a No-Goodnik
35. Fringe Benefits: The Tallit
36. How to Sacrifice a Lamb Unto the Lord
37. So You Want to Have an Opinion About... CHRISTIANITY
38. What Are Those Icky Jewish Dishes and Do I Have to Eat Them?
39. The Mitzvot
40. Honor the Sabbath. It Wouldn't Kill You.
41. Use a Sling to Incapacitate Your Enemies!
42. Let's Summer in the Catskills if They're Still There
43. Beyond Hip, Already: Yiddish
44. How to Build and Ark (Just in Case)
45. Learn the Kabbala (or Make Your Own!)
46. How to Pack for a Week in Florida
47. Raise Your Daughters the Old Testament Way
48. The Mikvah: Come On In! The water's Pure.
49. Introduction to the Shofar
50. Five Pickles Every Jew Should Know From
51. Flaunt Contradictory Opinions About the Afterlife!
52. A (Jewish) Star Is Born: The Magen David
53. Humility Now!
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ellis Weiner (Author)
- Barbara Davilman (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Plume, Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2010
ISBN: 978-0-452-29644-2
Page Count: 239
Publisher: Plume, Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2010
ISBN: 978-0-452-29644-2
Page Count: 239
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- Library of Congress: PN6231.J5W44 2010
- Dewey: 818.5402
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