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A guide to trolling Jewish organizations featuring my grandfather

October 26, 2011

Mr. B and I were visiting my grandpa, last weekend. After he was done telling us that one Rabinovich joke where Rabinovich is dying and his cheap family in Russia sends his family in America a telegram.  ”Rabinovich is dead.”  ”Oy,” comes the telegram reply, he turned to us and asked if we wanted any shmendrickeli. Shmendrickeli is not a real word, but one my grandpa made up to refer semi-scornfully to stuff he doesn’t like.  Shmendrikevich is the human ...

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Reminder! Russian Dolls Tomorrow Night @ 10:30

August 10, 2011

This show is tomorrow. And I’m liveblogging it.  Come back at 10:30 sharp for thoughtful analysis. And then read my blog. If you want some live coverage, follow Marinka, who I think might be anti-Semitic because she didn’t pick me to go instead of her family. I’m feeling a bit like I didn’t make Schindler’s list. It’ll be fun. Anyone else covering it? P.S. For some REAL insight into the Amero-Russian community, why not check out my hundreds of blog ...

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I have to stop blogging because the Russian spirit world is telling me to.

August 8, 2011

It’s true that comedy writers usually need to be miserable to produce good content.  Unfortunately, I had a very excellent birthday weekend filled with friends, family, love, happiness, and those little tarts that have fruit on them, so I’m all out of ideas. I could blog about my weekend. However, I can’t, because, according to my family, if you tell people good things that are happening to you, they are going to hate you and mess up your good luck ...

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Life after “Life After Zionist Summer Camp”

June 21, 2011

It starts the minute I read the first paragraph. That feeling of vague anger and helplessness. Because I’ve been reading and thinking about this issue ever since I decided that Israel was something I needed to be reading and thinking about. And I’ve been experiencing all of the things that Benedikt did for the past ten years, maybe more.  In different stages.  In different places. The olives, the AIPAC meetings, the beach, the sunflower seeds, the 1967 maps, the rallies, ...

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Mezuzah SNAFUs

May 17, 2011

(Note to self: insert picture of house here as soon as house is clean enough for the whole internet) Two weeks ago, on Friday night, we were doing various things around the house in preparation of my dad coming to help us paint the following day. One of the things I wanted to do was to hang up our mezuzah since, technically, at that point, we already started living there and I was ready to let people know which house ...

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