Beth Harpaz worked at the Forward as a reporter and now manages the Bintel Brief advice column. She previously covered politics and breaking news for The Associated Press. Email: [email protected].
Beth HarpazSenior Reporter
By Beth Harpaz
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Culture For Europe’s Jews, owning grand homes symbolized not just wealth, but equality
In many places, Jews couldn't own property until the 19th century. Exercising that right gave them social and political status, a new book explains
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get this intrusive synagogue board member to leave me alone?
Here’s Bintel’s step-by-step guide to setting boundaries — physically, verbally and in your head
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Fast Forward Every time Donald Trump has invoked Hitler and the Nazis
Trump's alleged comment that 'Hitler did some good things' and his admiration for 'German generals' are making headlines
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Culture Would you put jalapeños in matzo ball soup? This Mexican Jewish cookbook says, ‘sí’
New 'Sabor Judio' cookbook delivers recipes with New World flavors and Old World traditions
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BINTEL BRIEF Can you be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you die by medically assisted suicide?
Bintel asks the experts on behalf of a reader whose husband has terminal cancer
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Culture The urban sukkah: In NYC, they’re on rooftops, terraces, sidewalks and more
No backyard? No problem! City-dwellers build huts for Sukkot wherever they can
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Culture A Forverts truck has turned up as a prop in a Timothée Chalamet movie
The delivery truck with Hebrew lettering was spotted on a film set on the Lower East Side
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Bintel says please don't be like Tevye, who sat shiva for his living daughter
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