Today marks the launch of Oy!Chicago. Oy! is an online magazine/blog/community for Jewish and Jew-ish types in Chicago - as well as for their friends and fans.

As a bad Jew I plan on turning to them for guidance on what kind of hot-button Jewish topics I should bring up at cocktail parties, and I can only hope that somewhere down the line they'll have an article listing the best places in Chicago to get bagels and lox.

But for now I'm simply content recommending the site because my friend Libby writes for them, and I'm always happy to help out a fellow Chicagoan/writer/Jew.