Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Opinion What’s New at the Metropolitan Opera?
Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Rudy Giuliani, Benjamin Netanyahu and Moses. One of these men is not like the other, and yet here they all get equal time. So does a Top Chef contestant. And so does Bubbie.
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Opinion News Quiz: Do You Have ‘Chutzpah’?
Getty Images Matzo balls, blintzes and – Beyonce? Not to mention Barbra Streisand’s agent? It’s a great start to a new year! Get quizzing!
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Opinion News Quiz: Which Politician Just Put Their Foot in Their Mouth?
Robert Ransdell’s campaign slogan on view in Kentucky / WLWT Naked pictures! Brisket! How to pick up girls! We are starting this new year in style, here at your weekly news quiz. Dive in!
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Opinion News Quiz: Seth Rogen is Quitting Acting to do What?
Getty Images Kate Hudson, Leonard Cohen, Seth Rogen and Mayim Bialik? It’s either this week’s Jewish News Quiz or a list of who’s sponsoring the Rosh Hashanah kiddush.
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News Do’s and Don’ts of Going to Synagogue Only on High Holidays
For every Jew who goes to synagogue on only the High Holy Days, there’s a rabbi keenly aware of that fact. Sometimes even sweating over that fact. “I go through a number of different sermons — lots of paper crumpling, lots of false starts,” admitted Eli Herscher, senior rabbi of Stephen S. Wise Temple, in…
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Opinion News Quiz: Who Did Mel Brooks Prank This Week?
Getty Images Mel Brooks, Roseanne Barr and Dr. Ruth? Slaves to the new and trendy we are not. And neither is this week’s quiz (except for the obligatory mention of Sarah Silverman).
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Life Lisa Belkin, Queen of the Motherlode
Courtesy of Lisa Belkin Before Sheryl Sandberg there was Lisa Belkin. Working her way up at The New York Times, Belkin became every mother’s favorite mother in 2008 when she started the Times Motherlode blog. The blog touched a nerve as it focused on the elusive balancing act of work and parenting. Her most infamous…
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Opinion News Quiz: What Did Joan Rivers Say?
Getty Images Joan Rivers, Marcel Proust and the U.S. Open would all, if they could, welcome you to this week’s quiz. After all, they’re in it!
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