Jatropha seeds for jet fuel and more?
Addiction is something to help people overcome, not to judge them over. (Like I said, I only judge when there's hypocrisy).
Aww, Gary Shteyngart drops all the right memories of a secular Russian-Jewish Xmas: the non-denominational holiday tree, that cabbage soup smell, caramel cow candy.., and more. But especially, the disconnect between the recent immigrants--for whom poverty is a reality and not a cutesy pretense, and for whom profound Judaism is as foreign as Christianity--and those who'd immigrated generations ago:
We can’t do Christmas because we’re Jewish, and we never really get the full gist of Hanukkah beyond the candle lighting and the spiel about Jews conquering Greeks. New Year’s remains our holiday.
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