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Positively Shady

The glamorous activism of M.A.C Cosmetics

Muslim Pride

A timely LGBTQ memoir

Minor Hockey as Big Business

The disturbing shift from kids’ game to pricey investment

Michael Wex

Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (HarperCollins, 2006). His next book on Yiddish, Just Say Nu, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the fall.

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Michael Wex

Red-Tinted Yiddish

How the USSR tried to Sovietize the Jews using their own language and traditions. March 2007