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The Schmooze Here’s The Advice That Obama Told A Synagogue Audience He Gives To His Daughters
Barack Obama dazzled on Wednesday night in one of his first public speaking events since the end of his term. The 44th American president spoke at the Streicker Center at Temple Emanu-El in New York City’s Upper East Side. The crowd who filled the historic synagogue saw a recent president who was relaxed, glowing (seriously,…
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News Celebrity Bintel Brief: Jared + Ivanka Answer all Your Questions
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the glamorous Jewish power couple of the Trump White House. Ivanka the picture-perfect daughter of the president is a life-style guru, fashion retailer and Jew-by-choice. Husband Jared, raised Orthodox, now a trusted member of the Trump inner circle, is himself the son of a billionaire real estate developer Charles…
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The Schmooze This 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist Has Advice For You
Move over Dr. Ruth — there’s a (not-so) new sassy Jewish sex-therapist in town. And she just turned 100 years old. But as Charlotte Altman at Time Magazine points out, Shirley Zussman’s venerable age may actually be the least astounding thing about her. An almost lifelong Manhattanite, she lived in Berlin during the cabaret years,…
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The Schmooze Matt Freedman’s Moving and Inspiring Memoir
When we read Matt Freedman’s harrowing and hilarious illustrated memoir “Relatively Indolent But Relentless,” we were struck by how it was unlike traditional memoirs. So, we passed a copy along to Liana Finck, the incredibly talented artist and author of ‘A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York.’ Finck’s response was both enthusiastic….
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The Schmooze Bintel Brief Goes All 2014
Starting in 1906, the Forward launched “A Bintel Brief,” a Yiddish-language advice column which documented the trials and tribulations of adapting to life in America. More than a century later, our friends at the Tenement Museum have picked up the torch — with a few modern touches. The Jewish Daily Forward, the most widely read…
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Culture Ab Cahan’s Ghost Returns in Cartoon Form
● A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York By Liana Finck Ecco, 128 pages, $17.99 The advice column known as “A Bintel Brief,” meaning “a bundle of letters,” was the brainchild of Abraham Cahan, the founder of the Forverts, the original Yiddish-language incarnation of this very publication. In 1906, when the paper…
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Culture How Does Olympic Ice Dancer Charlie White Balance Gold Medal and Judaism?
At the recently completed Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Americans Charlie White and Meryl Davis thrilled audiences with their gold medal victory in ice dancing. Jewish Americans, in particular, celebrated Charlie White as a new breed of Jewish sports hero, following in the footsteps — or, in his case, skate marks — of Benny Leonard,…
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News Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Jewish Dating Advice Isn’t Far Off From Yenta’s Heyday
In 1926, a distraught father wrote to the Forverts’s advice column, A Bintel Brief, with a problem: Where are all the Jewish men? With four daughters to marry off, and no Jewish husbands in sight, the man was considering moving to another city. “We live in a country town where we are the only Jewish…
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