Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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Life The Friendly Competition That Is the Wedding Hora
I spent my New Years Eve at friends’ nuptials in Richmond, Va. After the glass was crushed, and guests were bussed from synagogue to reception hall, the band played the song that sets Jewish wedding receptions apart from others. My husband and I, and the two other Jewish couples at the table leapt up like…
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Life On the Heels of Hatch’s Hanukkah Song, the Ballad of Mormon by a Jew
Thanks, Orrin Hatch for the most publicized (first-ever?) Mormon-rendered Hanukkah Song. Conan’s self-proclaimed only Jew Max Weinberg returned the favor last night with a little ditty for the Mormon community to sing at Christmas time. Doubt they will though, since its purpose is to count all the ways in which the singers know nothing about…
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Life In Defense of the Ponytail-Puller
Elizabeth Lambert, the 20-year-old former University of New Mexico soccer player on scholarship, gave her first interview this week since the incident earlier this month when she pulled an opponent to the ground by her ponytail, and was permanently suspended from her team. The New York Times reported that Lambert “watched the video a handful…
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News Shalom Y’all: New Rabbi Lights Up Southern Town
The only synagogue in Greenville, N.C., sits on the outskirts of this old tobacco town in a converted funeral home. Inside, on a recent Friday, people milled, kibitzed and greeted one another: “Good Shabbos.” “How y’all doing?” Nametags were distributed to make everyone feel comfortable. The bright strum of a guitar coaxed the guests —…
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Culture Dance by Dance
Deborah Colker is as animated in life as she is on the stage. A director and choreographer with a more than 30-year career, Colker grew up in Brazil to Russian immigrant parents who gave her the Jewish education that she says allowed her to pursue dance and create art. Colker was the first woman to…
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Culture Where the Wild Things Aren’t
Turns out it’s not for kids. But adults will love this movie. Not only for capturing the subtlety of the original 10 sentences of Maurice Sendak’s book, but also for tackling the thorny issues of absent fathers and depression through a child’s unsullied eyes. “Where the Wild Things Are,” the movie, opens with a snowball…
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News Yid Lit: Darin Strauss
In his new novel, “More Than It Hurts You,” Darin Strauss asks how well can you know the person you wake up next to? Allison Yarrow sat down with the author Darin Strauss to talk about his new novel, about a Long Island mother accused of harming her infant. Strauss unpacks his protagonists, a “Jewish…
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Life The Case Against Swinging Chickens
During the kapparot ceremony, a custom practiced primarily in the Haredi community before Yom Kippur, sins are shifted to chickens, which a holder swings above his head three times. The meat is then to be donated to the poor. After learning that the custom can cause pain to chickens, and even injuries to their bones…
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