#52 Fancy Recipes for Honey Cake

(Happy Rosh to all of our readers!)
Each year, like salmon at mating season, Jewish Young Adults reverse their progressive course in life, and return to their parents’ homes to celebrate the high holidays, beginning with Rosh Hashanah, arguably the happiest holiday in the Jewish calendar. Most Jewish holidays are either ritually tinged with sadness, as [...]

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#51 Hiding Their Tattoos

(idea inspired by Rachel K.)
When the Jewish Elders were young, the only people who had tattoos were bikers, circus ladies, sailors and Samoans. Because of the social stratification, it mostly likely never occurred to most of them—or their goyish peers– to be tattooed when they were young, unless they were bikers or circus performers. Had [...]

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#50 The Steve Miller Band

Jewish Young Adults are generally avid supporters of JYA musicians, like Regina Spektor, Yael Naim, or Mirah, but in addition to keeping up with new artists, JYAs share a nostalgic place in their hearts for certain throwback bands as well; a typical example is The Steve Miller Band.

JYA’s continuous support for Steve Miller [...]

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#49 Dim Sum

(idea inspired by, and dedicated to, Nina W.)
It is a well documented fact that Jews in the United States have a voracious appetite for Chinese Food, particularly on Non-Jewish holidays. Jewish Young Adults in recent years have carved out their own preferential niche in the Asiatic culinary world. While any JYA would gladly [...]

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#48 Practicing on Gentiles

There is no shortage of documented cases of Jewish Young Adults settling into adult relationships with their conventional neurotic peers, even while wishing they were partnered with Non-Stereotypical Jews. What is less documented, and somewhat counter-intuitive, is the ritual of preparation that occurs before the JYA officially sets out to find a potential life partner. [...]

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