The big Jewish book for Jews
Subtitle: everything you need to know to be a really Jewish Jew
By: Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman.
Contributors: Davilman, Barbara.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780452296442
Subjects: Jewish wit and humor; Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Social life and customs; Judaism -- Customs and practices; Jews -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Description: A whimsical guide to Judaism that covers such topics as how to serve far too much food, passive-aggression, excessive worrying, and things not to do on the Sabbath.
Table of contents: title: "Just in case"; title: How to purchase, make, and serve too much food; title: Change your name!; title: The temples; title: How to obtain and mount a mezuzah; title: How to embrace Fiddler; title: How to order Cantonese food; title: Learn and use the Jewish calendar; title: How to tell if your wife is unfaithful; title: How and why to make chopped liver; title: Learn to speak and write like a rabbi in 1953; title: How to put your yarmulke on so it stays on; title: How to be passive-aggressive, if that's what you insist on calling it; title: The major holidays; title: The other holidays; title: How not to accept the first table you are shown at a restaurant; title: Circumcision : take a little off the tip; title: Dig that meshugga klezmer!; title: How to deflect a compliment; title: So you want to have an opinion about Islam; title: Let's "get" a traditional divorce; title: Worrying I : how to worry; title: Worrying II : what to worry about; title: How to give a backhanded compliment; title: Chillin' and illin' with tefillin; title: The original bam! : the basics of mah-jongg; title: Reasons, in spite of everything, to still have a bar mitzvah; title: Introduction to hondling; title: Learn to whisper so that everyone can hear you (and then deny that you "said anything"; title: How to build a sukkah; title: So you want to have an opinion about antisemitism and Holocaust denial; title: Let's keep kosher, finally!; title: Discipline your son the Old Testament way; title: How to recognize a no-goodnik; title: Fringe benefits : the tallit; title: How to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord; title: So you want to have an opinion about Christianity; title: What are those icky Jewish dishes and do i have to eat them?; title: The mitzvot; title: Honor the Sabbath : it wouldn't kill you; title: Use a sling to incapacitate your enemies!; title: Let's summer in the Catskills if they're still there; title: Beyond hip, already : Yiddish; title: How to build an ark; title: Learn the Kabbala (or make your own!); title: How to pack for a week in Florida; title: Raise your daughters the Old Testament way; title: The mikvah : come on in; title: the water's pure; title: Introduction to the shofar; title: Pickles every Jew should know from; title: Flaunt contradictory opinions about the afterlife!; title: A (Jewish) star is born : the magen David; title: Humility now!.