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...Then, about five minutes into his answer to my question "Why did you become a Mormon?" Reid lets slip that he once got into a fistfight with his father-in-law-to-be, an observant Jew who opposed the marriage for religious reasons, and I realize how perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring...
...hard drugs, and selfish hedonism at a campus that he says resembles “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke and a few other places rolled into one.” Thanks for the shoutout, Tom, but who are we kidding? Harvard belongs on that list like a Jew belongs at a Daughters of the American Revolution convention. . . . A red brick building on Plympton Street is currently awash in a tumultuous sea of institutional politics. An inside source says noses are browner, asses are glistening, and ups are being sucked like nobody’s business. Hava Nagila...
...Jew who has spent five high holiday seasons here at Harvard, I was dumbfounded to read the remarkably closed-minded opinion piece “The Eleventh Plague” (Opinion, Oct. 1). During the holidays, Harvard Hillel sponsored the religious services of four separate prayer communities—each with its own unique character—and the Chabad House at Harvard held its own set of traditional and yet highly participatory services. Both Hillel and the Chabad House also served family-style meals and break-fasts which were free to all undergraduates. If the authors felt alienated...
Some of the adult stories are grisly and disturbing, such as “The Jew in Brambles,” about a Jew who is forced to dance in a thorn patch and is later hanged. “[These stories] are so incredibly different from what we’re familiar with,” Tatar says. “But they’re still widely anthologized in a sort of mindless way.” “The Jew in the Brambles,” for example, has recently been included in a collection...
There aren’t many places where a weak, lanky Jew boy whose defining athletic trait is the difficulty he has lifting his arms over his head can live out dreams of football stardom he never even imagined he had. But in the topsy-turvy world of Scottish-American football, anything can happen (that’s American football--—where there are quarterbacks, not goalies-—played in Scotland...