Marjorie Ingall
By Marjorie Ingall
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News An Education on Good Education
I remember hobbies. I used to go to the pottery studio and the gym. I’d find furniture on the street, then strip and repaint it in crazy colors and patterns. I tutored newly arrived immigrants in English. I baked. I read things. Things with more pages than Entertainment Weekly. These days, not so much. For…
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News Love Story
My *zayde *Harry died long before I was born. In photos, he is tall, skinny, handsome. He wears jaunty hats and sharp suits. He has my uncle Michael’s bushy eyebrows; wide, kind brow, and laugh lines. His mouth is often pulled sideways in an ironic grin. My bubbe Olla died when I was 13. She…
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News My Generation: New Identity
We are in a golden age of hipster Jewish culture. VH1 airs “Matzo and Metal: A Very Classic Passover,” in which Jewish heavy metal rock stars go afikomental, and “So Jewtastic,” in which the influence of Jews on pop culture is celebrated. Gary Shteyngart and Elisa Albert get book critics hyperventilating with witty, funny, multiculti…
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News Rekindling the Romance
This summer, we’ll be visiting Bubbe in Newport, R.I., and my in-laws in Milwaukee. In Newport we will pick raspberries, scream in terror at lobsters, gaze in wonder at the surreal topiaries at Green Animals, ride the carousel at First Beach. In Milwaukee we will once again eyeball livestock at the Wisconsin State Fair, run…
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News Starting Out
Today we will talk about poop. I was hoping to somehow bring poop into a discussion of this week’s Torah portion, to give the poop gravitas, but Parshat Pinchas turns out to be about immoral Israelites sexually consorting with Moabites and getting righteously killed in flagrante delicto. So, uh, not so much. (I could save…
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News ‘Sweetheart, That’s the Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen!’ An Argument Against Excessive Praise
Every day, Josie plops her Hello Kitty lunchbox on the counter and says, “Mama, look at my artwork!” Every day, I look at her portraits of herself and Max. Josie and Max with crowns. Josie and Max with wings. Josie and Max with flowers. Josie and Max with a rainbow. Uh-huh. “Fabulous!” I coo, barely…
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News In Praise of the East Village Tatele: Man of Many Marvels
As Father’s Day nears, I contemplate the delightful ways fatherhood is changing. Men are increasingly involved in their kids’ lives, having more meals with their kids than their predecessors did, choosing more family time over more money. (I’ve used the stats in a previous column, so I won’t repeat them here. And yes, I’m generalizing…
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News Climbing the Family Tree
During a recent bout of my usual frantic procrastination-induced Web surfing, I stumbled onto something that made me stop clicking: There were my husband’s eyes, staring out at me… from a photo taken in 1870. It seemed that a distant cousin of Jonathan’s in Israel, someone we’d never heard of, had put together a huge…
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