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With the High Holidays upon us, the good folks who brought us quirky digital takes on the weekly Torah portion and that Leviticus-inspired iPhone game are back with something new: a website that lets you create a virtual scapegoat. That is, an eScapegoat. Say what? Intrigued by the ancient Yom Kippur ritual in which the High Priest chose a goat to symbolically take on all […]

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Remember Alvy Singer? The neurotic, paranoid stand-up comic played by the neurotic, paranoid Woody Allen in Annie Hall? In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, Alvy traces his adult neuroses to his having been raised in the house beneath the Thunderbolt in Coney Island. The constant shaking and rattling of the roller coaster easily explains Alvy’s jumpy, anxious personality, […]

Rosh Hashanah 2013 begins tonight at sunset and ends on the evening of September 6th. The Jewniverse will be dipping apples in honey, listening to some shofar blowing, accounting for the past year, and throwing our sins to the fishes. See you back here on Monday!  

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