• The New Yorker has some very Jewish fiction from Nicole Krauss. [New Yorker]

• Go the F*ck to Sleep author Adam Mansbach is offering a fake college course you should probably enroll in. [Salon]

• Animating the Talmud, G-dcast style. [Tablet]

• Jonathan Ames and Jason Schwartzman (the man, not the flu mask) are teaming up again for a film adaptation of a Bernard Malamud story story collection. [THR]

• A look at SkinnyGirl maven Bethenny Frankel’s TriBeCa condo, presumably sans soon-to-be-ex-husband Jason Hoppy. [Curbed]

• In Adam Levine’s The Voice-inspired SNL opening monologue, Jerry Seinfeld played the Jewish card: “I get you—appealing, not as Jewish as your name. I know that racket inside and out.”

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• The Real World, Mizrahi pop star style. [Tablet]

• The Dead Sea Scrolls get in the 21st thanks to Google, which published the ancient texts online. [Times of Israel]

• Hanukkah might be over, but we still like this recipe for rosemary sweet potato latkes with fig and pear jam. [Fig and Gruyere]

• Josh Kaplan makes deli ramen a thing at NYC’s Dassara—and Jonathan Ames eats there. [Eater]

• Adam Pally, our favorite Happy Endings character Max Blum, dressed for “the Soloman Schechter Day School production of the Nutcracker” when he visited Conan. [Team Coco]

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Even though he looks nothing like the real life Jonathan Ames who created the show, there is hardly anybody out there to play a neurotic Jewish private dick/writer better than Jason Schwartzman.

Maybe it’s because his character seemed like an even bigger nebbish this season, or maybe it was the episode where the real life Ames can be seen sporting nothing but a yarmulke, running down the street, but Bored to Death was officially our favorite show of 2010.

Runners up:

Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad.

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Everybody talks about his brother Isaac, but people forget that Israel Joshua Singer was a great writer too.

• Gary Shteyngart is interviewed at the Paris Review blog/Gary Shteyngart equates the Paris Review with being “pretentious” in said interview.

• The dream of most Jewish writers who were born before 1981: a rejection letter from Mad Magazine.

• Dooesn’t Jonathan Ames have enough money that he doesn’t need to be breaking into Broadway shows?

• Witz is reviewed by The Millions.

• Hereville: the book.

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