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The Great Matzah Crisis of 2008
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bfeiler
It’s a fact! Both the NYT and the L.A. Daily News have now run breathless stories about the Plight of the Missing Matzahs (insert your own spelling here; a brief search of the NYT website finds three different spellings of the unleavened bread — matzah, matzoh, and matzo). Here’s the NYT: From coast to coast,…
Obama and the Olympics
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bfeiler
Say what you will about the Tibet protestors, but as an act of brand warfare — tarnishing one of the most carefully cultivated worldwide brands ever created — they’ve done a masterful job. They’ve now got the torch cowering inside buses and cutting short its route, and today PM Brown said he would boycott opening…
Is Scarlett O’Hara Catching the Bible?
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bfeiler
No, but Harry Potter may be. Harris Interactive has released results of its Favorite Book of 2008. While The Bible is number one among each of the different demographic groups, there is a large difference in the number two favorite book. For men, that belongs to Lord of the Rings while women cite Gone with…
Are Finger Plagues Ruining Passover?
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bfeiler
A friend and loyal reader of Feiler Faster sent along this email this morning: Even I, who thinks religion can’t sink much lower, had a hard time with this one…there’s a toy store [in Brooklyn] that’s on our way to [our son’s] school and this morning I saw a “toy” in their window that is…
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