Column: The Beholder's Eye

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A Jewish variety/humor column, since 1996.
The popular, inside-backpage feature of the
award-winning Deep South Jewish Voice.

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2007

  

2006

 
Bard mitzvah October '07 Broken News -- Iran Conference Causes Concern December '06 (2)
Warning labels September '07 (2) The Buyble says December '06
Aquaholics Anonymous September '07 The things we do November '06 (2)
Shofar, so good August '07 Voting early November '06
Day of Morning July '07 The Good Book October '06 (2)
Sea of Red May '07 (2) Rebbe at the Bat (Mitzvah) October '06
Where you can go May '07 The dog vays of summer September '06
The Seder Code March '07 To a city near Jew August '06 (2)
National Signing Day February '07 (2) Sermoncision August '06
A Senior Moment February '07 If Jews created spam July '06
    Is your mom a JMom? May '06
    Kadima moves forward April '06
A Valentine's Day massacre January '06
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2005

2004

Bava Who? December '05 (2) A stone's throw December '04 (2)
Changing direction December '05 Celebrity Dreidel December '04
Harry Plotzer and the Chamber of Shpilkus November '05 (2) Thankless tasks November '04 (2)
Episode V: The Empire Shries Back November '05 The Electoral Yeshiva November '04
Holy reading high October '05 The fastest diet October '04
High Holy Daze September '05 A mighty wind September '04 (2)
Bubbe, You Can Drive My Car August '05 (2) At your service September '04
Orthodox outsourcing August '05 The Sporting Jews August '04
Harry Plotzer and the Sanhedrin's Stone July '05 Taken for granded July '04
No Stone Unturned June '05 (2) Ask the Rabbit June '04 (2)
Congraduations June '05 Gurb the Caveman Rabbi June '04
Episode IV: A New Trope May '05 (2) Incensible practices May '04 (2)
Turn down the stereotype May '05 Lagging holidays May '04 (1)
ManiSchoveThiz April '05 Proof of faith April '04 (2)
A Purrim Tail March '05 (2) Kidding around April '04 (1)
Tzom Improvement March '05 Rabbinical Discombobulation March '04
State of the Rite February '05 Cellist on the Roof February '04
Senior tour January '05 (2) Slinging drash January '04
Splitting hares January '05
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2003

2002
Hanukkah bizarre December '03 Hanukah giving December '02
Corralling corollaries November '03 (2) Nothing particular November '02
I got the power November '03 (1) Reflecting on the present October '02
Women rule October '03 (2) Out on The Pledge September '02
Statue of Limitations October '03 (1) Judaism in Jeopardy August '02
Motley Jue Crue September '03 The seven deadly mitzvahs July '02
Partial Recall August/September '03 Work in progress? June '02
Altered state July '03 News on command May '02
My Big Fat Greek Column June '03
The Fashion Bible May '03
Pros and cons April '03
How Jewish are you? March '03
Signs of life February '03
A dressing down January '03 ^ back to top ^

2000-2001

1999
Festival of Lights shopping December '01 The royal flush December '99
The great discovery November '01 The indefensible foe November '99
A new confession October '01 Pray for me October '99
Preseason predictions September '01 Well, Heck: The Next Incarnation September '99
Grating eXPectations August '01 The cutting edge August/September '99
A More Graceful State July '01 Conversion rates July/August '99
Sell-a-bration January '01 The observation deck April/May '99
Change of address December '00 March Madness March/April '99
Exercising rights November '00 Burning bridges February/March '99
High Holy Day observance October '00 How to Succeed... January/February '99
The official dilemma of the new millennium January '00 ^ back to top ^

1998

1997
Debunking the Chanukah Mythos December '98 Mezuzapalooza '97 December '97
A little shopping October/November '98 Honorable Menschen November/December '97
High Holy Daze September '98 Fishing for belief October/November '97
Welcome Back, Kinder August/September '98 Year of the lox September/October '97
Tradition sedition July/August '98 Hebrew 101 August '97
Pro portions June '98 Everybody has a dream July '97
Israeli Five-O May '98 Shake it up, bubbe June '97
Carving a Passover niche April '98 Don't open before June 11 May '97
For richer and Purim March '98 The crumbiest holiday of the year April '97
Literally absurd February '98 What Judaism needs March '97
Rabbi, open our eyes! January/February '98 Special: And I Still See Their Faces --
Exhibit on Polish Jewry debuts at Frankfurt museum		 March '97
Wisdom from the ages February '97
Lost biblical text discovered January '97
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1996

Latkes and identity crises December '96
Torah answers modern questions November '96
The true origin of Sukkot October '96
Eligible bachelors discovered on Mars September '96
Rabbis prefer sleeping during sermon August '96
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(Originally published as "From the Frontier" in The Southern Shofar.
Both names were changed in the late 1990s to protect the innocent.)

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