Abby Sher
By Abby Sher
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Life Bintel Brief is Back: ‘Dear Abbys’ dish advice in dark times
From its creation in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, and a trendsetter for advice columns across the United States. Yiddish for “a bundle of letters,” the column began out of necessity as so many readers wrote in sharing their troubles. The editor’s blunt answers helped waves of Eastern European immigrants…
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Food A Freaky Fungus Called ‘Jew’s Ear’
What do Judas Iscariot and hot and sour soup have in common? A rubbery mushroom known as . The term “Jew’s ear” might make you feel funny, but it was not intended to be anti-Semitic. It’s more about the fact that these tasty mushrooms look a lot like wrinkly ears and are most often found…
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Life Learning to Conquer My Daughter’s OCD — And My Own
Photograph via wikicommons (JTA) — As I lay in the hospital bed with my new daughter Sonya’s slippery skin pressed to mine, I knew this would be the scariest day of my life. It was the first day in 25 years that I ever willingly skipped prayers. I’d been in treatment for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder…
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News Among the Sufferers and Survivors
I?d come to realize that making lists and repeating things were a large part of being Jewish, too. There were lists of things we could and couldn?t eat; lists of prayers to say over and over and commandments to follow, the ten plagues that G-d sent down on the pharaoh so the Jews could get…
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