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

Articles by Martin Bodek

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?

Shoftim

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were eagle heads. Some of you guessed “kanfei nesharim,” which is a great reference, but just not related to the parsha.

Re’eh

Hi! Looks like I was unsuccessful last week in sneaking a pun past anyone, but at least you unanimously enjoyed! Now, can I sneak another

Eikev

Hi! Did you figure out why I used Israeli flags for last week’s parsha, of all parshiot, and why I suggested you’d need an umpire

V’etchanan

Hi! Say, did you “chap” last week’s cufflinks. Speak now if you did. If you did, then you see what I did there. On to

Devarim

Did you get last week’s cufflinks? Well, you’re presumably a member of the “tribe,” so of course you did. Proud of you. Chazak! We move

Matot-Masei

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were chatzi-chatzi on the comprehension part of things. What, they don’t show abacuses (abaci?) in school math books anymore? They sure

Pinchas

Last week’s Red Bull cuff links earned blank stares first, followed by “Ahaaaaaaaa!” I can’t believe they even needed an explanation. Hello? I guess some