Lynn Harris is a writer-activist-multihyphenate who uses the power of comedy to drive change. She is founder of GOLD Comedy, co-creator of Breakup Girl, and a former advice columnist for Glamour and other print magazines of blessed memory. She enjoys hot sauce and embarrassing her teen children just by existing and dedicates this gig to her late mother, who gave the best advice in the world.
Lynn HarrisCo-Host of A Bintel Brief
By Lynn Harris
-
Life I’m afraid I lost my community during the pandemic. How do I re-engage?
“A Bintel Brief,” the Forward’s signature advice column, is now a podcast hosted by Ginna Green and Lynn Harris. Listen to the latest episode here (or wherever you get your podcasts), and click here to sign up for a weekly newsletter with backstories from the hosts. Need advice? Email [email protected], or leave a voicemail at…
-
Life My sibling’s children are being radicalized. How do I intervene?
“A Bintel Brief,” the Forward’s signature advice column, is now a podcast hosted by Ginna Green and Lynn Harris. Listen to the second episode here (or wherever you get your podcasts), and click here to sign up for a weekly newsletter with backstories from the hosts. Need advice? Email [email protected], or leave a voicemail at…
-
Life I’m a man in my 50s, mourning never having children. Is it too late?
“A Bintel Brief,” the Forward’s signature advice column, is now a podcast hosted by Ginna Green and Lynn Harris. Listen to the first episode here (or wherever you get your podcasts), and click here to sign up for a weekly newsletter with backstories from the hosts. Need advice? Email [email protected], or leave a voicemail at…
-
Community ‘Zoom shiva is shiva distilled to its essence’
I am one of those people with one of those stories. My mom, 83, went into the hospital in early April with something relatively routine. A few weeks and complications later, she went to a rehab to regain her strength. My dad delivered her reading glasses and an everything bagel to the door, knowing, of…
-
Opinion A More Hospitable Sukkah City
My almost-four-year-old daughter, Bess, knows New York’s Union Square primarily as the home of an awesome new playground. She also knows that every fall, we build a sukkah on her grandparents’ deck, invite friends over, and hang out in it whenever we can. So she can perhaps be forgiven for having assumed that the spectacular…
Most Popular
- 1
Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
- 2
Opinion Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
- 3
News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
- 4
Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward NYC deputy mayor charges Washington Post with antisemitism
-
Fast Forward IDF recovers bodies of 3 Nova festival victims, including Shani Louk
-
Fast Forward Police in Rouen, France, shoot and kill man who set fire to a synagogue
-
News Queens College has been a model of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Can it stay that way after Oct. 7?