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I played on five different basketball teams that fall and winter: a Peabody Jewish Community Center League team, a USY (United Synagogue Youth) team, the St. Adelaide's Church team, and Higgins Junior High's eighth-grade team and its freshman team. The quality of my teammates was in indirect proportion to the number of days of Rosh Hashanah its players observed.
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Max would be moving into his in-laws' home until a school in Newton, Massachusetts, was finished being turned into a condo.
— Dec 26, 2025 10:55AM
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Nana Lil was a homely woman, her profile reminiscent of my favorite drawing, the hag who also looks like a fair maiden. But my Lord, there be no angle that turned this hag fair. She had a large fleshy nose grown at an elbow-macaroni arc and a chin hell-bent on shaking hands with that schnoz.
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My mother who had on numerous occasions boasted herself a Jew in name only" couldn't have named ten commandments if you spotted her nine plus "Thou shalt not..." and fired a pistol.
— Dec 18, 2025 07:56AM
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I'd been warned that the twelves table would be murder, but in reality, only twelve times twelve required any brainpower. How do you learn the twelves table? You learn the ones through the elevens, then twelve times twelve equals 144. That's how you learn the twelves table, friend.
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Times tables were actually fun up to the fives. Six through nine took some effort. You had to memorize those and accept on faith that nine times six is fifty-four. But then, as if in reward for that effort, ten was a joke…
— Dec 18, 2025 07:55AM
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Unless the green smelled like Maui Wowie I'd never spark her interest.
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