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Does that mean you don’t want to come out and play with me today?” said Stan, sniffing. “Go get Debby and the three of us’ll go out tonight. I don’t have a date and you and that cute wife of yours need to get out more. Also, I figured, maybe Debby could fix me up with a nice Jewish girl from the neighborhood. They’re so much hotter than the kishkes I usually date from Harcum College.”
“Okay, first of all, I’m working now. Also, tonight is the beginning of Passover, so I have to go home for dinn
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― Whiz Kid
― Whiz Kid
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The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further no
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
How often do you get to ask questions of a Yiddish poet - who happens not to be dead yet (tfu tf…more
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