Rear Pew Mirror Doug Brook

What if Tevye finally became a rich man?

What if he got everything he mentions in his infamous song?

What would the Homeowners Association have to say?



In honor of my playing Tevye once again, summer of 2024, we reveal the answers to these questions.



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Should the third book of the Bible be called Leviticus or Laughiticus? You be the judge, but beware of Almighty combustion. Lord knows we need to.



Some things in Leviticus are no laughing matter, but don't hold that against all of it – even though it tries to prohibit who you can hold certain things of yours against.



And what does Leviticus have to do with The Beatles, Rodney Dangerfield, and Mets baseball? There's one way to find out.



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As Passover looms large, we make room for the bread of affliction by finishing the last of our annual bread of addiction. We have to finish all the Girl Scout Cookies.



Here you'll hear a few actual, legitimate facts about the Jewish origins of Girl Scout Cookies, and the still-to-be-disproven connections between various GSC varietals and Passover.



Warning: Listening to this episode during Passover can make the eight days feel longer to your stomach.



Don't forget, we have a new book! Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary is now available in paperback and Kindle. It's the first collection based on our column (just like this podcast), with 29 satirical selections for your escapist entertainment.



For more information and links from which to purchase, go to https://rearpewmirror.com/, or hunt around on Amazon.



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Every day is some number of shopping days til Chanukah!

Instead of braving after-Christmas sales, or any sales ever, you can benefit from the return of our first-annual Chanukah Gift Guide. To keep it simple for you, it has just one item in it.

Completely unrelated... We have a new book! Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary is now available in paperback and Kindle. It's the first collection based on our column (just like this podcast!), with 29 satirical selections for your escapist entertainment.



For more information and links from which to purchase, go to https://rearpewmirror.com/, or hunt around on Amazon.



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Who named the weekly Torah readings? What were they thinking? Not about clarity of the readings' contents, that's for sure.

Join us as we explore the names of the five books of the Torah and the names of each weekly parshah. After this, anything else in the Torah will be far more comprehensible by comparison.

Also... We have a book! Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary is now available in paperback and Kindle. It's the first collection based on our column, with 29 satirical selections for your escapist entertainment. For more information, go to https://rearpewmirror.com/, or hunt around on Amazon.



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Whether we realize it or not, Jews pray multiple times every day for zombies to rise up. It's true. Listen to find out exactly where. And how it relates to tea.

After completing Rosh Hashanah, and looking ahead to Yom Tzom Kippur, one wonders how can someone be sealed in The Book of Life if they're a zombie, and if a zombie eating human brains violates the fast on Yom Kippur. These and many other questions won't be answered in this exciting episode, but a few will.

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), the first thing Hebrew readers look at since it's the back page feature.



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