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

Articles by Martin Bodek

Tetzaveh

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the blue knots, and the parsha spends a lot of time talking about blue wool and various knots, both used

Terumah

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the eyeballs, which weirded some folks out, but had to be used because of their multiple meanings, pretty much all

Mishpatim

Last week’s cufflinks were the Gryffindor emblems, from “Harry Potter,” because A) the word “house” appears thrice in the parsha, plus tent, which equals four.

Yitro

Hi! Last week’s cuff links game was Angry Birds, because, as many of you mentioned, the Israelites received plump quail in the desert for sustenance,

BeShalach

Hi! No need for me to explain the answers to last week’s Cuff Links (the Batman logo) because Harry Glazer and Daniel Davis wrote in

Parshat Bo

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the froggies, which I was glad to pull out of storage for their annual polishing. If you couldn’t link them

Va’era

Hi! Smart people around town last week. Everyone seemed to intuit pretty quickly that the keyboard keys were my initials, but how does that tie

Shemot

Hi! Were you able to decipher last week’s cufflinks? Of course you were, because after you were done being a little creeped out by the

Vayechi

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the compasses because the players in the parsha traveled between Canaan and Egypt about 84 times. Okay, fine, not that

Vayigash

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were Bitcoins, which everybody properly identified, and they were in reference to the myriad forms of transactions that take place over

Miketz

Last week’s “Real Men Wear Pink” cufflinks drove everyone batty. Joseph was a real man in many respects, but also in a very Pinocchio kind