Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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News The Allure of the Burka
Why do fundamentalists always end up wrapping women in shmattes? I ask because, as we’ve seen in Israel’s Beit Shemesh recently, ultra-uber-Orthodox men have been spitting on less-ultra-but-still-Orthodox girls as young as age 8 for wearing clothes that aren’t “modest” enough. The fact that the girls’ outfits seem very modest to most of us just…
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News TV Ripped My Son From Reality
About two weeks ago, I was ripped from the headlines. Ouch. A friend sent me the link to a new “Law & Order: SVU” episode. “SVU,” in case you didn’t know, stands for Special Victims Unit — victims who are cuter, smaller or more heinously abused than usual. So, it opens with a chubby-cheeked boy…
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News When Even Challah Seems Haunted
What makes a home Jewish? I?m not talking about the discussions, the jokes, the smell of pickled fish. I?m talking about walking into, in this case, my ailing mother?s apartment in Skokie ? the town where the Nazis marched because it was sooo Jewish ? and wondering: How do you know a Jewish lady lives…
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News Late to Shul, On Time for Kiddush
My friend and I go to the same synagogue but almost never run into each other. “How come?” I was musing the other day. “Well,” she said. “I only go there to pray.” Aha! That explains it! When she’s walking out, I’m walking in. Yes, I’m one of those synagogue goers who arrive pretty much…
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Food For Rosh Hashanah, eat these symbolic-sounding foods
There are five foods the Talmud says should be eaten for the Jewish New Year
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News Five Ways To Meet Your Future Mate
If you know me, and you are single, you have probably had the awkward experience of meeting someone who I thought would be just PERFECT for you. Someone from my temple or work, or some bald but very nice guy I met earlier that week in front of the post office. My husband says that…
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Opinion A Note to Parents Worried Their Child Will Be Next
Here’s a little exercise I’d like to suggest for all the parents now traumatized by the brutal murder of Leiby Kletzky and wondering when — if ever — they will let their children walk outside, given the “crazy world we live in” and the notion that “times have changed,” and the belief that “you never…
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Life On the Death of Leiby Kletzky, z”l
It is with an actually, physically aching heart that I report to you the death of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy, Leiby Kletzky, who disappeared from a short, solo walk yesterday and was later found in a dumpster. Here is the story. I bring it up because it seems to prove that the incident that kicked…
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