Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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News Yid Lit: Rachel Shukert
In her new memoir, “Everything is Going to Be Great,” author and performer Rachel Shukert travels to Europe after college to “escape the weight of [her] own expectations,” which involves no small measure of drinking, gallivanting and sleeping with (non-American) boys. Amidst a ribald trek of self-discovery, Shukert skewers what she dubs a new paternalism…
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News Yid Lit: Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore’s fiction centers on an inevitability — that everything from the food we eat to our friends and politics is affected by the ideas first formed in our childhood homes. The author of the National Jewish Book Award nominated “Golden Country” (Scribner, 2006), Gilmore writes about families with beautiful acuity — celebrating how everyday…
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Life ‘Balebuste’ Means Homemaker — Not Cleaning Lady
I’m interested that Debra and Elana chose to focus on the housecleaning dimension of the balebuste role that Elissa describes aspiring to in her youth. I thought balebuste meant homemaker, not cleaning lady. Working at a marriage for many years, and watching it grow and change while raising children gives Debra and Elana different perspective….
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Culture Taking the Pulse of Young Jewish America on Hot-Button Issues
Where do Jewish teenagers across the country stand on issues bound to shape American Jewry? The Forward’s Allison Gaudet Yarrow polled 17- and 18-year-olds entering college within the next year, and asked them their thoughts on Jewish identity, community, education and other hot-button topics. One thing that became overwhelmingly apparent is that today’s young people…
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News Wedding Blues: Rabbis at Odds With Their Rules
The so-called wedding of the century featured a ketubah, a chupah, a groom wearing a tallis and yarmulke, a crushed glass at the end of the ceremony and both sets of parents being hoisted up in chairs as guests danced the hora. But despite the wedding’s Jewish symbols, top leaders from all the major streams…
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News Ketubah Artist to the People
When Tsilli Pines was planning to wed in 2005 and couldn’t find a ketubah (the official Jewish marriage document), that reflected her own taste, she rolled up her sleeves and made one herself. The Portland, Ore.-based graphic designer, who has lent creative juices to the online presences of David Bowie and Robert Mondavi Wines, had…
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News Yid Lit: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is a best-selling novelist and globetrotter. He came to this country with his family from Leningrad in 1979, and his work has become a touchstone of literature about the Russian Jewish immigrant experience. His third novel is now out, “Super Sad True Love Story” (Random House) and in it, the sweet if schlubby…
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News Yid Lit: Jon Papernick
When Jon Papernick sits down to write, he imagines a tiny rabbi sitting on his shoulder, guiding his Jewish education, which he explores through craft of writing short stories. The author of the collections “The Ascent of Eli Israel” and most recently “There is No Other,” Papernick was a journalist in Israel after the assassination…
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