Dating in Brooklyn While Russian | Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin

Short and sudden, none longer than a page, the tales of Stealing Cherries are funny and embarrassing and sad and honest. In “The Weekend,” she remembers being invited to the Hasidic enclave of Crown Heights for Passover, where “self-effacing families with a gazillion children and barely any furniture fought against rich jewelers for the mitzvah of providing our room and board.”

“Judaism for Dummies” tells of two teenage boys who have a spiritual epiphany, change their names from Boris and Michael to Moses and Baruch, then get stymied when they return to their dorm and can’t get to sleep with the Shabbat light on.

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