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Linking Northern and Central NJ, Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester and CT

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 [email protected] and we’ll publish the best and most creative answers a week later. Have fun!

Articles by Martin Bodek

Toldot

Did you notice that last week’s cufflinks were miniature leveling devices? If yes, you will have noted that they were filled with water, naturally, which

Chayei Sarah

Did you get last week’s cufflinks tie-in to the parsha? It was the laughing-with-tears emoji. Of course you did, because you understand that the expressions

Vayeira

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the Captain America shields, which were easily identified, but did you know how they linked to the parsha? Did you

Lech Lecha

Hi! Did you have trouble with last week’s cufflinks? Did you not recognize which of the 6,400 mammals on earth those were? They were aardvarks!

Noach

Did you “chap” last week’s cufflinks? Of course you did, because you’re playing the game again, and you’re really smart. Yes, that was the Slytherin

Bereishit

And it was evening, and it was morning, a new year! Let’s play “Let There Be Link!” round two, week one—at the Eve of a

Sukkot

Cufflink time! Enjoy the easiest round ever, before round two begins! You deserve it after working so hard all year. For goodness shake, ah har

Haazinu

Listen up! Hear ye! Hear ye! This is the final Shabbat week of Cufflinkle, round one! Why is that, you might ask? Well, 1) Parshat

Rosh Hashanah

Were you strong enough to get last week’s links? Even if you didn’t, I en-courage you to play every week. You see what I did

Vayelech

I’m impressed with the lot of you who associated last week’s Apple™ symbol cufflinks with the fact that they were Apple™’s first logo, as in

Ki Tavo

Hi! If you thought last week’s ravenclaw cufflinks were for the birds, you were right! They had everything to do with shiluach hakan. Nice going

Parshat Ki Teitzei

How have you been? Were you able to hammer out the meaning of last week’s cufflinks? Did you drive claw & order out of them?