By Emily Shire
Last week, the New York Observer published a
cover story on Logan, a 30-year-old Orthodox fourth-year medical student with “boyish” good looks. He’s searching for his
bashert and describes himself “as a mensch at heart.” Sounds like a catch, right? Well, before you beat a trail to his probably adorable Upper West Side bachelor pad and mentally compose your engagement announcement for OnlySimchas.com, you should know one thing: Logan is a complete and utter chauvinistic fraud.
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By Emily Shire
James Deen talks about getting suspended from day school and which Jewish figure he’d like to play in a porno flick. Plus, he spills the beans on the sexy side of summer camp.
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By Emily Shire
Recently, a series of major articles have raised the alarms on the demise of dating and marriage. Alex Williams’ New York Times piece
“The End of Courtship” lamented the death of traditional, chivalrous dating, and Amy Webb’s
Wall Street Journal story encouraged women to stretch the truth in their online dating profiles lest all the good men pass them by. In response to Dan Slater’s new book about technology’s effect on dating,
“Love in the Time of Algorithms,” The Atlantic ran a
series on online dating and whether or not it’s destroying monogamy. Each one heralded the end of romance, flowers on a first date, and all that Hugh Grant movies taught us to revere and expect.
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By Emily Shire
EDUCATION: It’s the dawn of a new era for bored and irritated Hebrew school students. Interactive online lessons can make the language and culture come alive.
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By Emily Shire
Learning how to write a check, buying hanging shelves for my first apartment (a task that’s taken me four months and counting), and trying out the new churro place near my apartment are all more pressing concerns in my 23-year-old life than deciding when to become a mother.
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