Monthly Archives: November 2008

‘The First Basket’

I just watched this new documentary. The Jewish population in America increased dramatically during the last decade of the 19th Century. As the immigrants poured in from Europe, they discovered that their new home was sports crazy and that athletic … Continue reading

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The Regurgitating Pragerhead

They’re like the Deadheads! Dianne Mueller writes: I can see why this sharing of the "Dennis Prager experience" is analogous to the Deadhead one, and why we are then drawn to communing with each other every month at our Dennis … Continue reading

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What Jewish Writers Need

I found this essay provoking: I knew that serious Jewish-American writers were in trouble several decades ago when I began giving my classes in “Jewish-American Fiction” a chance to vote on their favorite text in a survey course that included … Continue reading

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Our Fearless Leaders

Here we go: (Kishke writes: "Dumkopf! The joke is worthless without explaining that the yiddish for “white president” is pronounced as “vice president,” which Joe Biden is. What a dope." "Shvartze" is Yiddish for "black.")

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Will Obama Be Good For Israel?

Bruce Epstein writes: "You paint Jewish opposition to Obama as having “little to do with his policies or his political ability”. You are correct that this opposition is not based on Obama’s policies, since he has never done anything. Therefore, … Continue reading

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