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BINTEL BRIEF I love traditional Rosh Hashanah services, but my wife says no to gender-segregated seating
In 1975, Bintel said the husband gets 'the last word.' That won't fly today. But how to resolve differences in High Holiday practices remains an intriguing question
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BINTEL BRIEF I feel so disconnected from Jewish life. Help me find the right community
Readers say they’re lost and lonely and nothing seems to fit. Bintel crowdsourced ideas for finding and forging Jewish connections
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BINTEL BRIEF Rabbis didn’t love our advice on dating a rabbi
In the words of one rabbi, Bintel 'got this one wrong'
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BINTEL BRIEF An online friend didn’t realize their remark was antisemitic — but didn’t apologize. Am I wrong to want more?
Understanding has to cut both ways, but it's hard to figure out what that looks like
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BINTEL BRIEF I have a crush on my rabbi. Is it OK to ask him out?
Bintel says sure, but know that your private life may soon be the subject of public conversation
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BINTEL BRIEF Readers respond to our advice on bullying, sluttiness, retirement, Nazi memorabilia and more
Your turn: Here's what you thought of recent Bintel columns, including one from a woman who sat shiva for a living sister and another on interrupting
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Culture Fiction excerpt: The Baron of East Broadway, by Jerome Charyn
On the Lower East Side, Ab Cahan is once again the Pulitzer of Yiddish Land, the William Randolph Hearst of the Jewish ghetto
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BINTEL BRIEF My friend doesn’t like the way I talk. And now she won’t talk to me about it
Bintel says: What some see as interrupting, others call being Jewish
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