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Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman is a singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly.

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    A Jew’s Christmas in Texas

    All my Xmas live in Texas. That’s why I hang my hat in Galilee.

    byKinky Friedman
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    The Armadillo Menorah

    A miracle of lights in Texas

    byKinky Friedman
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    Not Jewish: Hunting

    Why chasing game through the forest remains the most brutal, boring, indubitably non-Jewish pastime on the planet

    byKinky Friedman
  • Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 1979.
    Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 1979.
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    Menachem Begin Lives

    Avi Shilon pens a masterful biography of the man who irrevocably bound Israel to the Diaspora and the Holocaust

    byKinky Friedman
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original images Shutterstock and Joe Philipson/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original images Shutterstock and Joe Philipson/Flickr)
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    Bond. Jew Bond.

    Jerome Charyn’s crowd-pleasing new mystery novel exiles his larger-than-life hero Isaac Sidel to Texas

    byKinky Friedman
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