Bintel Brief
Celebrity Bintel Brief: Jared + Ivanka Answer all Your Questions
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the Trump White House’s glamorous Jewish power couple. We asked them to answer readers’ questions, and they agreed!
Matt Freedman's Moving and Inspiring Memoir
Matt Freedman’s harrowing and hilarious ‘Relatively Indolent But Relentless’ is totally unlike traditional memoirs. So is Liana Finck’s graphic review of it.
Bintel Brief Goes All 2014
The Bintel Brief famously documented the trials of adapting to life in America. The staff at the Tenement Museum has picked up the torch — with a few modern touches.
Ab Cahan’s Ghost Returns in Cartoon Form
The Forverts’ famous ‘Bintel Brief’ gets a second life in Liana Finck’s graphic adaptation of the advice column. And so does its creator Ab Cahan — as a ghost.
How Does Olympic Ice Dancer Charlie White Balance Gold Medal and Judaism?
Forward readers ask ice dancer Charlie White how he manages the delicate dance of athletic fame and Jewish identity. Oops, scratch the Jewish part!
Joyce Brothers, Jewish TV Psychologist and Advice Columnist, Dies at 85
Television psychologist Joyce Brothers died on Monday in New York of natural causes, her publicist said. She was 85.
Dear Abby, You Were One Impressive Gal
I am not generally a fan of the term “gal,” but what other word can be used to describe Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, the beloved creator and author of Dear Abby, who died last week at age 94? With a legion of fans worldwide — the column is carried by 1,400 newspapers and has a daily readership of 110 million people, according to its syndication service — Dear Abby was surely the most widely-read Jewish female writer in the world, an accomplishment all the more impressive considering that she had expected only to be a wife and a mother.
'Dear Abby' Dies — And Ab Cahan Weeps
The Forward’s Bintel Brief was America’s first advice column and ‘Dear Abby’ took the genre mainstream. That’s why Ab Cahan would mourn ‘Abby’s death.
An Immigrant's Life, Told Graphically
In 1906, Nasye Frug wrote to the Forverts about her life as a new wife and recent immigrant. Liana Finck reimagines this story in graphical form.
My Influences Are Showing
Earlier this week, Liana Finck let us peek behind the curtain at the source material for her comic based on A Bintel Brief. She showed us the first two pages and the second story. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
