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We Could Be Heroes

The legend in question began with a Lego figure of Anakin Skywalker. When your family doesn’t use electricity on the Jewish Sabbath, there is not much to do. You play Risk. You play monopoly. You play Magic: The Gathering. Most of the time, though, you play Lego.

by Aron Wander on October 11, 2014October 13, 2014

You Can’t Sing

Coming to grips with bad pitch.

by Aron Wander on February 14, 2015

Keeping Up with the Kashrut-ians

Exodus chapter 34, verse 26: “Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.” Some 5,000 (or 2,000, depending on who you think wrote the Torah) years ago, God told the Jewish people not to mix milk and meat. … Read More

by Aron Wander on March 30, 2014March 30, 2014

During Fire Drills

my teachers wore the same face they did

on 9/11.

by Aron Wander on February 28, 2015February 28, 2015

The Decline of Marshall Mathers

To my parents’ horror, I discovered Eminem at age twelve when my uncle gave me a copy of Encore for my birthday. I was enchanted; I loved the tenderness of ‘Mockingbird’ and the humor of ‘Puke,’ and the unbridled rage and violence that riddled the album were more visceral and real than any emotions I had ever heard in music.

by Aron Wander on December 5, 2013December 8, 2013

Jewish Wisdom

Dear Aron & Josh, Someone in my frat is making me fast for a week. I really don’t want to drop out of the frat but I don’t know if I can make it a week with just water. Help?

by Aron Wander, Joshua Leifer on October 18, 2014October 19, 2014


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