Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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News The Bacon Problem
This is a tough moment to be a Jew. Not because of the sex scandals involving members of our tribe. Not because of calls for Israel’s withdrawal from this or that strip of land. (What else is new?) Not because of anti-Semitism here or abroad. No, it’s because we are living through an unprecedented Bacon…
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News Why We Need the Hora
The hora is running on fumes. Go to any bar mitzvah or Jewish wedding, and sure, you’ll still find folks doing that primordial party dance. Some are kicking up a storm, faces glistening with glee (and sweat). But plenty more are simply squashed together, shuffling in the same general direction, feigning frolic. It feels less…
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News When a Reality Television Show Beckons
When the phone rings and the person on the other end says she’s from a reality TV production company and would like to know if you’d be interested in auditioning to host a new parenting show, you tend to compartmentalize. Or at least I did. The call came last summer, and I laughed about it…
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News Passover: The Marketing Miracle
If you were wondering (which, perhaps, you weren?t) how to create the most memorable ad campaign ever ? one that will get stuck in your brain, like the Taco Bell chihuahua; or Coke?s ?I?d Like To Teach the World To Sing? song, or even the E*TRADE baby, except for an extra couple of THOUSAND years…
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News Were Jap Jokes a Justification for Intermarriage?
Not that I miss them, but whatever happened to JAP jokes? In the 1970s and ’80s, my high school and college days, the JAP — that is, the idea of the Jewish American Princess — was just a part of the pop culture landscape. There were jokes about her accent, her nose, her materialism, her…
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News A Portal to a Revolution in Forbidden Foods
My mom’s 1972 copy of “Portal to Good Cooking” hadn’t been opened for a while. Like, decades. I found it in the back of a kitchen cabinet when I was home for a visit to Chicago last December, and decided to bring it to New York with me, since my mom no longer cooks. What…
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News Don’t Show Me That Wallet Photo, Please
A company on Long Island is offering parents this deal: a 15-minute CD-ROM of their child, four 3×5 color photos and a sheet of 9 wallet-sized pictures… All before the baby is born. Expectant moms can come in as early as 18 weeks (that’s less than halfway through the pregnancy) to get their first keepsake…
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News Why I Go Caroling
It’s during this time of year that I live in a mixed marriage. I love Christmas carols; my husband hates them. I go around whistling them; he runs out of the drug store when they’re playing. I feel cheery and expansive; he feels hunted and haunted. I guess that explains why he never joins me…
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