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November 23, 2024
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Mordechai Schmutter

Mordechai Schmutter is a freelance writer and a humor columnist for Hamodia and other magazines. He has also published seven books and does stand-up comedy. You can contact him at [email protected].

Articles by Mordechai Schmutter

A Stiff-Necked People

This week’s column is about stiff necks. Nothing to do with the fact that many of us slept in the sukkah last week. Stiff necks

Sleeping Under the Stars

Dear Mordechai, Due to some unforeseen enthusiasm from my kids, I’m sleeping in the sukkah this year, apparently. Any advice? Also, there are no alarm

Jealous Much?

Yom Kippur is a great time to work on our middos, and one middah that we all have to work on is the middah of

Use Your Head

The Aseret Yemei Teshuvah is a serious time, and we do a lot of things in all seriousness. But in all seriousness, it’s sometimes difficult

Keys to Happiness

Most people don’t think about their keys that much, except when they lay down for an afternoon nap. “Ouch!” The thing about key chains is

I Sawed the Instructions

So I recently learned how to use a chainsaw. Who says you can’t learn new things as an adult? I had to do it as

Oral Support

I got the feeling that I don’t take my kids to the dentist often enough when, on their way out of their latest appointment, they

Running Around in Circles

School is starting soon, and as a parent, you have a lot to do before it starts, in case you thought you could just spend

A Stinky Tisha B’Av

Let the record show that about once a year, I have some kind of animal adventure in my backyard that turns into an article. It’s

Overnight Oversight

As someone who’s gone on three overnights with my sons’ day camp (fifth and sixth grade), I’ve learned that a responsible chaperone is one who

Play Coach!

I’ve never been into baseball. The way I see it, there’s nothing you can decide in nine innings that you can’t decide in one. So