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Turning tables
We begin with Judah pleading that Joseph take him into slavery in the place of his younger brother Benjamin. Joseph is moved. Then like Martin Landau in the old Mission Impossible TV series, Joseph finally ends the cruel deceptions and reveals his true identity to his stunned brothers. All 70 members of daddy Jacob’s […]
KFAR’s annual alternative to the xmas alternatives returns with a stellar lineup (if I do say so myself) at the Subterranean
in Wicker Park. Shtreiml comes to town with their Blues Traveler-tinged/Jam band take on Klezmer, plus rapper Kosha Dillz and classic rockers Moshe Skier Band. Beats the pants off of crowding into […]
Joseph was always Jacob’s favorite, the son his beloved wife Rachel. Rabbi Reiss says after Rachel’s death Jacob substitutes Joseph as an “object of his special affection.” In this comic we imagine that once Jacob believes Joseph dead, Benjamin becomes the object of Jacob’s special affection.
Meanwhile, back in Egypt, Joseph decides to have a bit […]
When I was 13 or so, I wanted to jump on the American Girl Doll wagon. But I never fancied myself a Molly, a Samantha, or even an Addy. I wanted to be different. So, I ordered myself one of those “design your own” dolls. I got her with red hair (because much as people […]
You’re going to have to forgive me fore being MIA lately. I found myself swimming ina sea of deadlines and haven’t quite managed to come up for air just yet. but, don’t you worry, my disappearance is only a temporary one. I’ll be back very soon on a regular bassis. Anyway… I have resisted […]
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A Hazing Gone Wrong
Joseph’s brothers did not sell him into slavery. Judah suggested it, but no one agreed. The bros, violent knuckleheads that they were, threw Joseph down a dry well, then ate lunch. Can you blame them? Between his pompous dreams and Jacob’s favoritism, we’d have hated Joseph too! This parsha also tells another […]
KFAR’s annual alternative to the xmas alternatives returns with a stellar lineup (if I do say so myself) at the Subterranean
in Wicker Park. Shtreiml comes to town with their Blues Traveler-tinged/Jam band take on Klezmer, plus rapper Kosha Dillz and classic rockers Moshe Skier Band. Beats the pants off of crowding into […]
I’m a big fan of Rabbi Elliott Cosgrove. I think he’s the Conservative movement’s slightly more bookish answer to Brarak Obama, a rising star with a sharp intellect, understanding of the issues, a great speaker and communicator and as the ladies are fond of saying, easy on the eyes.
The Assistant Rabbi at Anshe Emet, R. […]
Today, leaving shul after feeding our souls, we went to Kiddish where we fed our tummies, from whence we left for a lunch at Matthue’s where we knew we’d further stuff ourselves… As as we Yiddin, with our tzniut skirts on girls waists and kippot on guys heads left the kiddish for lunch, one of […]
I”ll be chatting it up at this event on Sunday…
It’s tonight, yo. We will be talking the December Dilemma, since most of our regulars are folks with Jews and non-Jews in the family. How do you juggle Christmas Mania with Hanukah Hoopla? How do you keep peace in the home with so many holidays and expectations running around?
See you at 7PM TONIGHT!
Laban is the real hero of this parsha, despite getting dissed by the rabbis. When he hears Jacob is near he runs to greet him, hugs and kisses him. Rashi say Laban was checking Jacob’s mouth for jewels, which means, I guess, Laban gave him tongue. He performs the highest act of righteousness for the […]
Two years ago, when I came out to one of my closest friends as a potential convert to Judaism, he asked, “What about Christmas? Won’t you miss Christmas?”
“No, of course not. It is just a day we get together as a family, it doesn’t have any religious meaning. Besides, I don’t even decorate for Christmas.”
This […]
