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My Parents Want Me To Be an Actuary; I Want To Run a Casino
Dear Bintel Brief: I’m 18 and reside on Long Island. My parents want me to be an actuary. (I don’t even know what that is; I think it has to do with birds.) But I want to attend Tulane University, enroll in their Casino Management program. My mother (I love her dearly) hasn’t been to…
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Sabras and Olim on Israel’s Arab Minority
More than half of Israel’s Jewish public supports encouraging Arabs to emigrate from Israel. Breaking down the figures, some 77% of immigrants favor this course of action compared to 47% of Sabras. These figures come from the Israel Democracy Institute’s annual Democracy Index, released today. They reflect a growing sense of concern among Jewish Israelis…
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Gangs of Tel Aviv
In its most impressive feat since its recent launch, Tablet magazine has just closed out a long series on the Israeli mob after a five-day run. The piece was smartly adapted to Tablet’s online-only format by appearing in short installments over the course of a week — like the old newspaper serials — and accompanied…
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Sleep-Away Camp: My Daughter, My Self
Last week, we put our 10-year-old daughter, our middle child, on the bus for her first overnight camp experience. Though she didn’t know any other girls at camp, as she boarded the bus she gave me a smile electric with excitement. She is doubtlessly doing fine. I, however, am having some separation anxiety. I recall…
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Are Women Getting More Beautiful? Let’s Hope Not.
Women are getting more beautiful, and men are not, according to recent studies by Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, and Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, The Sunday Times reported last week. Relying on data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and the National Longitudinal Study of…
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What if Job Lived in Williamsburg?
No, not that Williamsburg. And certainly not this Williamsburg. Rather, the Williamsburg that is adjacent to the former, but where, unlike either the former or the latter, people don’t wear knee-length breeches, except perhaps occasionally for reasons of irony or of the avant garde. WARNING: Video features mildly offensive language and perhaps more offensive interpretive…
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Waxman to Weiner: ‘Speak English’
A little mameloshn came spilling out of the mouth of Rep. Anthony Weiner (aka the future Mr. Huma Abedin) during a discussion of health care reform. New York Daily News blogger Michael McAuliff reports: “We’re not going to take hundreds of billions of dollars a year and give it to insurance companies who give us…
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Booze For Your Health
Working at the Forward Confederated News Empire I get a lot of press releases. Most are tedious beyond belief, some are worth following up and the remaining few are fascinating for the same reason that ornithopters are fascinating: They’re patently great ideas that are totally doomed. This one that I just received fits fairly and…
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Come On Baby Knish Me, It’s Tu B’Av
August 5 is the Jewish day of love. Kinda. Sorta. Even Edmon Rodman (who wrote this piece for us last month), while explaining it for JTA, doesn’t quite believe it. Moving on from one of the more memorable leads in Tu B’Av history — “When the moon hits your eye like a knish in the…
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Andrew Sullivan’s ‘Mitzvah’ Problem
Gay-Catholic-conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan has many spheres of writerly expertise. Jewish religious terminology isn’t one of them. In a recent post on his blog, Sullivan discussed his marriage. “To watch someone you love blossom and grow and mature and thrive is what my Jewish friends call a mitzvah,” Sullivan wrote. This prompted a reader to…
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Mikveh-Going Singles
I enjoyed taking Forward Web Editor Gabrielle Birkner — a friend as well as a colleague — to the mikveh just before her recent wedding, an experience she describes in her recent Sisterhood post. I’ve taken a number of friends over the years, happy to introduce my sisters in liberal Judaism to this central ritual…
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