May 9, 2025

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Martin Bodek

For years now, Martin Bodek has been wearing cuff links themed to the week’s parsha, to stimulate conversation around the Shabbat table. Naturally, it begged for a wider audience, and The Jewish Link seems like a perfect home—especially in name. Every week, we’ll present the cuff links, and you tell us how it ties in to the parsha of the week. E-mail your guesses, educated and otherwise, to thejewishcufflink@jewishlink.news and we’ll publish the best and most creative answers a week later. Have fun!

Articles by Martin Bodek

Vayeira

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the Captain America shields, which had specific first-appearance tie-ins. Firstly, it’s the first Torah mention of Hashem providing a shield

Lech Lecha

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks for Parshat Noah were the doves with the myrtle branches in their beaks. We started the year with a layup. Now

Noach

We’re back! Feels like it’s been a while! Let’s play that linky music, shall we? And ooh, my tie is playing along this time! It’s

Sukkot

Just push play. I got a rebus for ya! Can you figure it out? Chag sameach and Shabbat shalom, everybody! This will be my last

Yom Kippur

I wish everyone an easy and meaningful fast. May we all be inscribed and sealed in the book of life and prosperity, and may we

Rosh Hashanah

Chag sameach! SomeSTING about these cufflinks connect them to the next two days, but I can’t BEE sure SWAT it is. Can you take a

Nitzavim-Vayelech

Last week’s cufflinks were Ironman, and I had lots of players over the course of Shabbat. The leiners in the neighborhood did very well, correctly

Ki Tavo

Hi! Did you get that last week’s Ravenclaw cufflinks were a reference to shluach hakan? Of course you did, as did everyone else in the

Ki Teitzei

Hi! Last week’s links were Thor hammers, which look an awful lot like gavels, which are held by judges, which was the name of the

Shoftim

Hi! Last week’s eagle-head cufflinks were slightly more difficult than a layup, but not quite a logo three. More like a floater in the paint.

Re’eh

Hi! Last week’s footprint links threw you for a loop, didn’t they? Hint: I went for heteronym wordplay there. “Eikev” also means “heels,” which stared

Eikev

Hi! Last week’s links were the national flag(s) of Israel, because the parsha contained so many references to the Children of Israel and the Good