Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary

By Doug Brook

From the back page of Southern Jewish Life magazine, to the front of your bookshelf. Or the top of your Kindle queue. Or whatever you kids use these days.

Since 1996, the Jewish humor column on which this book is based has been entertaining both of its readers, snubbed by the American Jewish Press Association awards, and helpful for securing the author nearly several first dates.

Ready to reminisce about Kol Nidre the 13th? Want to explore the best Italian dishes for Passover? Eager to reread the sports epic Rebbe at the Bat (Mitzvah)? Got bated breath for biblical math, the sine of the times? Suspicious about rabbis preferring sleeping during sermons?

This collection contains 29 unforgettable columns about holiday mashups, food, biblical sources, culture, and services.

High praise for Rear Pew Mirror:

"He periodically spells my name right." - Moses

"Yes, we gave him a graduate degree. We're looking into it." - chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary

"Half of the things he says I said, I never said. Including this." - his mother

"I'm not the one who hired him." - everyone at the synagogue where he teaches

"Now you see why." - all his ex-girlfriends

"He knows more about Judaica than most, and you won't find any of it in this book." - his fourth-grade teacher

"He's the kind of son only a mother could love." - his father

"His translation skills are second to none, and it's a very close second." - his Hebrew professor

"I'll deal with him." - The Almighty Big G

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CLC9VLWB
• ISBN13: 9798854758703
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"