SHTETL MAGAZINE

Watch this installment of Milk & Meat, where Mel and Nick talk about being in an interfaith relationship.

Once considered seriously sinful, Judaic attitudes towards getting inked are changing. Adam Kovac speculates as to why the kids are branding themselves with Jewish marks upon the flesh.

Ever noticed H.Fisher & Fils while walking down St-Laurent Blvd. in Montreal? This shop has been around for ages and harks back to a time when needles and thread were the bread and butter of many a Jew in Montreal. As long as Esther Fisher has anything to say, it ain’t closing anytime soon. This story is reposted from The Third Solitude Series.

In this moving and funny memoir, Oscar Colman encounters Old Man Israel with his Yiddish accent and his fanatic intolerance for bad cheese sandwiches from the Golden Age cafeteria. A character like this, you won’t often find.

Perplexed about the Jewish turnover of Turkish descent? Let Katherine Romanow take you inside Montreal’s bakeries for Shtetl’s guide to the best borekas in town.

Is Montreal food sexier? One rabbi with a foodograghic memory, is haunted by visions of poutine and other local cuisine. Writing from Providence (Rhode Island), ex-Montrealer Rabbi Rackover, bemoans the lack of the erotic in the American diet.

Read Jessica Mensch’s interview with comic artist R.M.H. Where does R.M.H. get her inspiration for the gory, absurd scenes she depicts? From nature? Sci-fi? Her cannibalistic hamster, perhaps?

Culture or costumes? Mitzvot or mini Mars Bars? Read Jon Selig’s soul searching deliberation over ….Jews for Jack’o’Lanterns. And feel free to leave your comment. Are you or your kids going out for Halloween this year? Is Halloween bad for the Jews?

The controversial film “Between Two Worlds” examines the issues that are dividing the Jewish community today. Who has the right to speak for the Jews? Read Janis Seftel’s review of Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow’s most recent documentary.

Read Oscar Colman’s hilarious, and deliciously wicked recollections of his big job as the assistant to Montreal mohel Rabbi Colton. This memoir brings to life the old streets of Montreal and how it felt to be a 12 year-old Jewish kid with a gig like no other.