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Re Leon Uris recs: I read Trinity in high school because I had this weird Ireland fixation for a while. I’m compensating now by passionately hating the Irish, who--I want to be perfectly clear, so no one takes this out of context later--are all terrible. But who knows, you might like the book anyway.

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I read Exodus this year and it was nearly life changing.

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How Does a Jew Get to Heaven from Dry Humping the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus?

Enquiring minds would like to know, so let’s ask Brother Nathaniel . . .

Jews go to the Wailing Wall and thrust their hips to imitate having intercourse with their “shekinah” (a female demon) while praying to their devil . . . at an old Roman fortress called Antonia.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/how-does-a-jew-get-to-heaven-from-dry-humping-the-wailing-wall-like-miley-cyrus

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#notallirish

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How Does a Jew Get to Heaven from Dry Humping the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus?

Enquiring minds would like to know, so let’s ask Brother Nathaniel . . .

Jews go to the Wailing Wall and thrust their hips to imitate having intercourse with their “shekinah” (a female demon) while praying to their devil . . . at an old Roman fortress called Antonia.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/how-does-a-jew-get-to-heaven-from-dry-humping-the-wailing-wall-like-miley-cyrus

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Are you mentally ill or just an ass?

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Thank You Chaya Leah I am going to use my new knowledge of what Jewish Law says about the proper height of Hannukah candles to be such an insufferable know it all.

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The Hope and The Glory by Herman Wouk are my favorite Israeli historical fiction.

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So is the book club still happening?

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I have A.B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani on my shelf. I almost started it last weekend https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Mani-Pa-Harvest-Translation/dp/0156627698

Description says: Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family.

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How Does a Jew Get to Heaven from Dry Humping the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus?

Enquiring minds would like to know, so let’s ask Brother Nathaniel . . .

Jews go to the Wailing Wall and thrust their hips to imitate having intercourse with their “shekinah” (a female demon) while praying to their devil . . . at an old Roman fortress called Antonia.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/how-does-a-jew-get-to-heaven-from-dry-humping-the-wailing-wall-like-miley-cyrus

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Wish I could make it! Not in NYC.

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