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everything you need to know to be a really Jewish Jew

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Table of Contents

"Just in case"
How to purchase, make, and serve too much food
Change your name!
The temples
How to obtain and mount a mezuzah
How to embrace Fiddler
How to order Cantonese food
Learn and use the Jewish calendar
How to tell if your wife is unfaithful
How and why to make chopped liver
Learn to speak and write like a rabbi in 1953
How to put your yarmulke on so it stays on
How to be passive-aggressive, if that's what you insist on calling it
The major holidays
The other holidays
How not to accept the first table you are shown at a restaurant
Circumcision : take a little off the tip
Dig that meshugga klezmer!
How to deflect a compliment
So you want to have an opinion about Islam
Let's "get" a traditional divorce
Worrying I : how to worry
Worrying II : what to worry about
How to give a backhanded compliment
Chillin' and illin' with tefillin
The original bam! : the basics of mah-jongg
Reasons, in spite of everything, to still have a bar mitzvah
Introduction to hondling
Learn to whisper so that everyone can hear you (and then deny that you "said anything"
How to build a sukkah
So you want to have an opinion about antisemitism and Holocaust denial
Let's keep kosher, finally!
Discipline your son the Old Testament way
How to recognize a no-goodnik
Fringe benefits : the tallit
How to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord
So you want to have an opinion about Christianity
What are those icky Jewish dishes and do i have to eat them?
The mitzvot
Honor the Sabbath : it wouldn't kill you
Use a sling to incapacitate your enemies!
Let's summer in the Catskills if they're still there
Beyond hip, already : Yiddish
How to build an ark
Learn the Kabbala (or make your own!)
How to pack for a week in Florida
Raise your daughters the Old Testament way
The mikvah : come on in
the water's pure
Introduction to the shofar
Pickles every Jew should know from
Flaunt contradictory opinions about the afterlife!
A (Jewish) star is born : the magen David
Humility now!.

Edition Notes

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New York
Genre
Anecdotes

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5402
Library of Congress
PN6231.J5 W44 2010, PN6231.J5W44 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24124512M
Internet Archive
bigjewishbookfor0000wein
ISBN 13
9780452296442
LCCN
2010011187
OCLC/WorldCat
560559717

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