Tag: schwartzie

The Fables of Schwartzie: Part 1

A bonobo monkey went to the doctor. “You are 98.7% human,” the doctor told him. “It can’t be,” the monkey cried in disbelief. “The humans are killing each other on a massive scale, and destroying my habitat in the process.”…

The fables of Schwartzie: Part 1

A bonobo monkey went to the doctor. “You are 98.7% human,” the doctor told him. “It can’t be,” the monkey cried in disbelief. “The humans are killing each other on a massive scale, and destroying my habitat in the process.”…

Fiction: Bad Company

My dybbuk isn’t such a bad guy. Sometimes he helps me out of tight spots, like the time in Yiddish class when my morah asked me to give a presentation in front of the whole grade. I was sweating bullets…

Cain and Abel in a new light

The story of Cain and Abel spans only about four psukim in Bereishis, but something tells me that there must have been more to the world’s first murder. Here is some of the subtext as it might have occurred in my family.