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Wal-Mart Shopping List: Chips, Soda, Rabbi Costume?

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Head Yenta
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I have so many problems with Wal-Mart I don’t know where to begin, but hawking haredi rabbi costumes complete with peyes and fur hat is pretty much at the top of list. Well, right behind how their unfair slavery labor … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart PR Fiasco Casuality

Posted on June 20, 2005 by Head Yenta
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The Wal-Mart public relations genius responsible for the newspaper ad that compared zoning laws meant to protect small businesses with Hitler’s denial of human rights has resigned. The Washington Post reported last week that Peter Kanelos, Wal-Mart’s community affairs director … Continue reading →

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And Yet Another Reason To Hate Wal-Mart

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Head Yenta
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So Wal-Mart ran an ad last week in the Arizona Daily Sun depicting Nazis burning books in order to show voters that not allowing one of their stires to swallow their local ecomony is akin to inviting Hitler over for … Continue reading →

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Menorah of the Week: Stick it in the Spokes of a Consumer Economy

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Head Yenta
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Oy, Black Friday, Cyber Monday…sounds like extra Passover plagues, nu? I come from a long line of bargain hunters, but trampling each other at Wal-Mart might be an indicator that shopping has become a sickness in America. Yes, sitting at … Continue reading →

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The Giant Tome of Kvell

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Head Yenta
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It always makes my stomach a little barfy when lists are published “proving” how Jewish people are smarter and/or more accomplished than any other group of people that inhabit the Earth. Not because the disproportionate amount of Jewy names on … Continue reading →

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The Yenta’s Chanukah Gift Guide

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Head Yenta
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Oy vey, is it that time already? Chanukah starts in in less than a month! Ach, shopping for your favorite Jew out in that scary Wal-Mart world could give you hives (I accidentally wrote “hooves” first, which would be really … Continue reading →

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You Light Up My Life

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Head Yenta
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As the planet spins like a lopsided blue dreidel towards the darkest day of the year this Sunday, I must admit I feel like I’m taking a bath in the blackness. When you’ve got crazy assholes with guns and bombs … Continue reading →

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No Dog Hair On the Sofa in God’s House?

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Head Yenta
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I’ve always been weirdly fascinated with the Rapture (you may remember my first introduction to Jesus’ promise to disappear the really decent people from the planet while the rest of us losers wallow in the treacly soup caused by greed, … Continue reading →

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Last Chance for Chanukah Ruach

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Head Yenta
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*Sigh*. I’m feeling depleted and defeated as we come up on this last night of the Festival of Lights. We haven’t lit the menorah on time even once, and we were so late to synagogue on Friday night we missed … Continue reading →

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Snippets From the Stage

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Head Yenta
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Whew, what a whirlwind! We’re back in Savannah after yesterday’s Hallelu extravaganza in Atlanta and I’ve already made breakfasts and lunches for the small people I’m charge of, been to a fancy fashion show, gotten yelled at by a homeless … Continue reading →

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