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Introduction |
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3 | (4) |
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2 How to Purchase, Make, and Serve Too Much Food |
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7 | (6) |
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3 How to Change Your Name |
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13 | (6) |
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19 | (4) |
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5 How to Obtain and Mount a Mezuzah |
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23 | (4) |
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6 Learn to Embrace Fiddler |
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27 | (3) |
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7 How to Order Cantonese Food |
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30 | (4) |
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8 Use the Jewish Calendar! |
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34 | (4) |
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9 Use the Bible to Tell If Your Wife Is Unfaithful |
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38 | (3) |
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10 How and Why to Make Chopped Liver |
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41 | (3) |
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11 How to Write and Speak Like a Rabbi in 1953 |
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44 | (4) |
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12 How to Put Your Yarmulke On So It Stays On |
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48 | (3) |
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13 How to Be Passive-Aggressive, If That's What You Insist on Calling It |
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51 | (6) |
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57 | (7) |
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64 | (5) |
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16 How to Not Accept the First Table You're Shown to at a Restaurant |
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69 | (4) |
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17 Circumcision: Take a Little Off the Tip |
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73 | (4) |
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18 Dig That Meshugge Klezmer! |
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77 | (4) |
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19 How and Why to Deflect a Compliment |
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81 | (5) |
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20 So You Want to Have an Opinion About...ISLAM |
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86 | (4) |
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21 Let's Get a Traditional Divorce |
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90 | (4) |
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22 Worrying I: How to Worry |
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94 | (6) |
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23 Worrying II: What to Worry About |
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100 | (3) |
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24 How to Give a Backhanded Compliment |
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103 | (4) |
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25 Chillin' and Illin' with Tefillin |
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107 | (6) |
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26 The Original Bam! The Basics of Mah-Jongg |
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113 | (3) |
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27 Reasons, in Spite of Everything, to Still Have a Bar Mitzvah |
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116 | (5) |
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28 Introduction to Hondling |
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121 | (4) |
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29 Learn to Whisper So That Everyone Can Hear You (and Then Deny That You "Said Anything") |
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125 | (5) |
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130 | (6) |
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31 So You Want to Have an Opinion About...Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial |
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136 | (4) |
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32 Let's Keep Kosher, Finally! |
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140 | (4) |
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33 Discipline Your Son the Old Testament Way |
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144 | (4) |
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34 How to Recognize a No-Goodnik |
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148 | (3) |
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35 Fringe Benefits: The Tallit |
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151 | (5) |
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36 How to Sacrifice a Lamb Unto the Lord |
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156 | (4) |
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37 So You Want to Have an Opinion About...Christianity |
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160 | (5) |
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38 What Are Those Icky Jewish Dishes and Do I Have to Eat Them? |
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165 | (6) |
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171 | (4) |
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40 Honor the Sabbath. It Wouldn't Kill You |
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175 | (6) |
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41 Use a Sling to Incapacitate Your Enemies! |
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181 | (5) |
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42 Let's Summer in the Catskills if They're Still There |
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186 | (5) |
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43 Beyond Hip, Already: Yiddish |
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191 | (7) |
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44 How to Build an Ark (Just in Case) |
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198 | (4) |
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45 Learn the Kabbala (or Make Your Own!) |
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202 | (6) |
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46 How to Pack for a Week in Florida |
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208 | (3) |
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47 Raise Your Daughters the Old Testament Way |
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211 | (4) |
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48 The Mikvah: Come On In! The Water's Pure |
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215 | (5) |
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49 Introduction to the Shofar |
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220 | (3) |
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50 Five Pickles Every Jew Should Know From |
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223 | (7) |
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51 Flaunt Contradictory Opinions About the Afterlife! |
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230 | (3) |
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52 A (Jewish) Star Is Born: The Magen David |
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233 | (2) |
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