Amy Sohn
By Amy Sohn
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Life Embracing Your Would-Be Convert, Would-Be Sister-in-Law
Dear Bintel Brief: My boyfriend and his brother come from a family with Jewish values. Their mother has imbued them with the importance of marrying within the faith. My boyfriend’s brother has only been dating a woman for a short period of time, but the woman insists that she is passionate about converting to Judaism….
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Life Be Less Fruitful, and Cut Down Your Carbon Footprint
Dear Bintel Brief: My husband wants to have a big family, but I think that in today’s world with all of the suffering and the need, no one family should have more than two children. As someone who wrote about the stroller capital of the world, who’s right? PONDERING PREGNANCY AND POPULATION Amy Sohn replies:…
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Life How Can I Fire My Flower Girl?
Dear Bintel Brief: My oldest and dearest friend, one of my only friends with children, really wants her daughter to be the flower girl in my forthcoming wedding. Initially, I thought it was a good idea, as neither my husband nor I have young nieces. But now, I’m rethinking the matter: My friend’s daughter is…
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Culture Probing Brown’s Dark History
Last month, Brown University released the results of a three-year study of its historical relationship to slavery and the slave trade, and suggested several steps to inform the public about this dark chapter in its past, including the creation in Rhode Island of a memorial to the slave trade. Surprisingly, although the report has a…
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News My Cruel Valentine
An Almost Perfect Moment By Binnie Kirshenbaum Ecco, 336 pages, $23.95. * * *| Binnie Kirshenbaum’s new novel, “An Almost Perfect Moment,” is a good sad book, which means Kirshenbaum seduces you into caring about each of her characters, and just when you think they might get what they want, she robs them of real…
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