Alyssa Pinsker
By Alyssa Pinsker
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Life There’s No Such Thing As ‘Half-Jewish.’ It’s Simply ‘Jewish.’
As a child growing up in Philadelphia, when adults would ask me about my religion, I would answer, with a smile, “I’m nothing!” This resulted in a polite smile mixed with pity and bafflement. My Ukrainian Greek Catholic mother married a Jewish man, as did two of her four sisters. My mom may have married…
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Life I’m Not A Rich Jew — And I Hate The Stereotype
On a recent business trip to L.A., when I mentioned I was Jewish, an Asian businessman told me that his son would ask him daily: “Dad, why was I not born a Jew, they are so smart and so rich!” I smiled at the “compliment.” That’s what’s called a positive stereotype — like the ones…
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News Looking for Love, and Wine
Alice Feiring is no stranger to controversy. Her debut memoir, “The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World From Parkerization” (Harcourt), hit Page Six three months before its release this month. The reason? Feiring’s taste for natural wine brought her up against the world’s leading critic, the bulldog-esque Robert M. Parker…
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