Morten and I were at Bed, Bath & Beyond last night looking for Christmas cookie tins so he can send out his homemade Norwegian baked goodies to friends and family — including Scandos, boricuas, DR’s, and Jews. While he was poking through the shelves I spied a Martha-Stewart-fancy dreydl and took it over to show [...]
Read MoreSanta Claus is dead! At least, the charity Santa who was born during the first Gilded Age, and whose fantasies about the poor fueled Operation Santa Claus, an enormous, Victorian-mentality welfare program run for decades from the giant Post Office at 33rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City.
Yesterday, three months after [...]
Two thousand eight marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Billie Holiday’s great album, Lady in Satin. Add two years and you’re back to 1956, the year she sang “My Yiddishe Mame” at a rehearsal. Until recently, Holiday’s Yiddishkeit session was available only on Verve’s The Complete Billie Holiday: 1945-1959. But a Venezuelan [...]
Read MoreCarrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on SATC were big followers of the wedding announcements in the Sunday New York Times. Who can forget the episode devoted to Carrie’s sturm & drang when news of Mr. Big’s nuptials with someone else appeared in the paper of record?
I dip into Weddings occasionally, but it’s hard to [...]
Yom Kippur is past and now we are into the five days’ preparation for Sukkot. It’s a harvest fest that also commemorates the 40 years of wandering post-Exodus, with the Jews living in temporary huts in the Sinai while God waited for everyone to die who’d picked up slave mentalities in Egypt.
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