Happy Hanukkah from the Hardware Aisle!

The Nail Menorah’s golden solder and copper candle-holders span a series of creatively reused flat-cut nails.

The elegant cantilevered design reminds me of those “My boss is a Jewish carpenter” bumper stickers I used to see down south–though I don’t…

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No matter how many toys and electronic gadgets kids have, parents, grandparents and anyone else who spends a lot of time with children indoors inevitably hears, I’m bored. There’s nothing to do. On those rainy days when kids can’t play outside, even the sweetest child can seem like he’s posses…

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Oscar Homolka was born on August 12, 1898 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a sewing machine salesman and part-time cantor, Homolka was a vessel for his homemaker mother’s frustrated acting ambitions. Homolka began his career on the Viennese stage, but was soon working in the more prestigious the…

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PINHAS ZAHAVI was born October 22, 1955 in Nes Ziona, then a small town, now a suburb, 22 miles south-East of Tel Aviv, in Israel. “I was football crazy, but not very good,�? he says of his early days. Bored with working in his father’s haberdashery store, he went into the army early. At 22…

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After 10 years of writing for Jewish publications, I’ve learned to think ahead, many months ahead. While everyone is eating latkes, I’m thinking Pesach. When we’re all putting away the wine glasses and haggadahs, I’m already in a Rosh Hashanah state of mind.

If sewing is your passion…

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Born on June 29, 1952, in London’s Stepney neighborhood, the next step up from the Jewish ghetto in Whitechapel, Barry Silkman is an extraordinary man. Depending upon who you talk to, the character of the gangster/fixer Don Logan, so rivetingly portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the film ‘Sexy Beast’ is t…

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Walter Adrían Samuel was born on March 22, 1978 in Laborde, a small town in the Cordoba Province of Argentina. Raised by a single mother–he has the name Lujan on his birth certificate–young Walter was nurtured by an admirer, Oscar Samuel, who recognized his talent, even though he was only four…

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Sorin is one of the greatest characters in soccer. Born on May 5, 1976, to a middle-class Jewish family in Buenos Aíres, Juan Pablo seems to have been competing to win at fútbol since he was a toddler. Even at cheder, I was told by a Porteño Jewish friend of mine, Sorin wore his trademark hea…

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José Pekerman was born in the small town of Gualeguay in Entre Rios province in Argentina on September 3, 1949. His radically socialist parents were members of what he has referred to in interviews as a “sort of proto-Kibbutz.” Not much is known about Pekerman and, coming from a country where o…

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What is it about Jews and Art? I do freelance stuff like this and deliver philly cheesesteaks on the side. To those bloggers out there, they know the insane amount of money we get paid to do this so it’s really just to be able to be a plebeian like the rest of you for shits and giggles.

Anyway, I…

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