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Madeleine Would everybody please shut up about Marcel Proust's madeleine? Honestly, you'd think his entire kaleidoscopic epic was about baked goods. The cookie passage takes up less than one page of the seven-...

Shelley Goldberg Cable station NY1's "parenting consultant" begins each of her insufferable segments by condescending to her audience. "I'm sort of like a helper for mom and dad," she says in a tone that would...

The Rebbe's Court The world's first ultra-orthodox soap opera, The Rebbe's Court, which premiered on Jerusalem TV this past fall, offers a new twist on the traditional daytime drama. According to cast member O...

Public Nail Clipping There can't be anything more emblematic of the erosion of civic virtue in this nation than the disturbing development of public nail clipping. It's so acceptable to do your nails in public...

Amanda Hesser This prissy little New York Times food writer has somehow become my mother's fantasy of the perfect Jewish daughter, and for this, she must be eliminated. In her columns about souffles and salads...

Lifegem From the creepily named "living memorial" industry, a Lifegem is a diamond created from the carbon ashes of your cremated loved one, available in assorted colors. I can hear it already—women crowing fr...

Ready-Made Here's a fun remodeling project: 1. Take Ready-Made magazine, the young nesters' guide to alterna-crafts. 2. Now retool the name for a rag that's entirely about creating things that aren't already m...

You Don't Have to be Jewish ...to get heartburn from this record. Considering that Jackie Mason is currently on Broadway with his seventh one-man show, there's no reason why this comedy relic from the last mil...

Rabbis in Kilts What fun-loving Orthodox rabbi doesn't want to frolic around in a skirt every once in a while? You've got to give it up for these free-balling, wild and crazy Scotsmen. Malted whiskey, bagpipes...

Impressions Under Water by Leni Riefenstahl Hitler's little media darling will soon release a 45-minute documentary about life in the Indian Ocean, with footage taken from over two thousand dives. Riefenstahl'...

France Tourism down in the land of waifs and dog shit? Ah, gay Paris ...

Cleveland Cleveland deftly illustrates how a city can funnel millions of dollars into subsidizing fancy new sports arenas (at the expense of little things like, oh, city schools and public housing), but when a...