GREAT READS → THE BAVLI ONION Issue 1053 · March 12, 2025

The Bavli Onion 2025

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The Bavli Onion 2025
The Bavli Inbox

Reported by (deep breath)…

Gedalia Guttentag, Binyamin Rose, Jake Turx, Yaacov Lipszyc, Menachem Weinreb, Yitzchak Landa, Michal Frischman, Rikki Boles, Shmuel Botnick, Chaia Frischman… and others too modest to need a byline.

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I’m just writing to say shkoyach for an excellent newspaper. We’ve been buying it since 1958, and proudly display your logo on our mailbox. My favorite column is Mordechai Schmutter.

Malcolm X., Flatbush

Featuring the Faceless

To the Editors,

Your policy of refusing to print pictures of women is shameful, degrading of Womenkind and a dreadful lesson for our new generation of progressive, confident Jewish women. It sends a message that women don’t exist.

It’s obviously a reflection of the fact that your editors are all male, pale, and stale. If there was one — just one! — woman on your editorial team then this would never happen.

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