Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Life My Husband’s Atheism Is Cramping My Style
Dear Bintel Brief, My husband and I had a Jewish home. We were active members of our synagogue and celebrated all the Jewish holidays. My husband recently declared himself an atheist and gave up on all things religious. I still want to light candles and celebrate Shabbat, have seders, etc., but he refuses to participate….
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Life Help! My Daughter Is Seeking an ‘Open’ Marriage
Dear Bintel Brief: In 1995 one of my six daughters, married for the first time. We thought at the time that she was truly getting married, and I liked her young man. For maybe a dozen years before her marriage she had been leading an unconventional, “new-age” lifestyle in the San Francisco Bay Area, perhaps…
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News A Blast From The Present Returning to the Catskills Past The Author Never Knew
Spring brings out the nostalgia fiend in me; the part that firmly believes Haggadas should hail Maxwell House and kids should hunt for the afikomen between plastic-covered couch cushions. Yes, I romanticize the past — particularly the 1950s New York, kreplach-canasta-Catskills Jewish past, which I missed by a couple of decades and several states, growing…
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