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...long ago, a mensch was the kind of guy your mother wanted you to marry. A devoted and kind Jewish son, no doubt, but someone with as much zing as a glass of warm, flat, seltzer. But what a difference a few pop cultural references make. Menschiness has suddenly become cool. Desperate husband Carlos on Desperate Housewives described his parole officer as one, while the term came up in an episode of the generally un-menschy ?Jake in Progress.? John Lithgow was just singing about them on Broadway in ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.? And a guest on Oprah even described...
...pray tell, am I revealing these embarrassing facts? It’s not to impress you—indeed, I’m assuming you’re a modern, enlightened woman, and thus despise anything that stinks of nouveau-riche American aristocracy. Even if it’s Jewish nouveau-riche American aristocracy...
Summers, wearing a standard-issue black yarmulke, spoke from a small makeshift stage near the center of the hall. Yet without amplification—use of electronic appliances is forbidden during the Jewish sabbath—he was nearly inaudible to much of the maximum capacity crowd...
...always so,” he said, referring to Harvard’s large Jewish community. “But now it is so, and it will always be so. This is a special moment for Harvard’s Jewish community...
Guests dined on typical Hillel fare of chicken, carrots, potatoes, and tofu, accompanied by a thimble of grape juice for the Kiddush, the Jewish blessing over wine...