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November 21, 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

My Roof, My Rules

It’s weird: Many of us, when asked, will say that we don’t fully trust the medical community. But then we’ll go in for a procedure

Finding Yourself

I’ve never really been a big hiking person. The way I see it, most places you go are technically hiking. A zoo is hiking with

Chicken or Fish?

I got both. Okay, so remember how a few years ago I wrote about how kids bring the most random things home at the end

Everything Else

Have you ever sat at a bar mitzvah and wondered when the father was going to wrap up what he was talking about already? Last

Unsung Hero

There are a lot of interesting bar mitzvah minhagim that people have, and one of them is for the father to stand up and thank

Colonial Times

Now that summer is once again upon us, a lot of people are wondering, “Should I go to a bungalow?” And the answer is: It’s

On the Short Bus

With congestion pricing going into effect, more and more people are taking public transportation into the city (Manhattan). Just all those people on a bus,

What Will We Eat?

About once a year, give or take, I write an article about food trends. Yidden are not really ones to keep up with trends, but

A Mother’s Day for Fathers

I feel like Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are both in that category of “non-Jewish holidays that many of us don’t officially celebrate, but we

Minhag Yisrael Torah Hu

Ever since I started writing these articles about my personal Yom Tov minhagim, I’ve been surprised by how many people tell me they have the

Memories of Sefirah

For some reason, the hardest mitzvah to remember seems to be Sefiras HaOmer. Which is crazy for a mitzvah that we do 49 times a