Adele swept the Grammy Awards, winning six different categories. According to a new book, Shakespeare had a Jewish grandfather from Bohemia. Jenna Weissman Joselit writes about the meaning of a Jewish home at the Yiddish Book Center. Alex Ross writes about Philip Glass. Enough said. David Meir Grossman writes for Tablet about the feminist rock…
The previously announced memoir by Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will be out November 15 according to its publisher, Scribner. The memoir will be titled “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.” The book is said to focus on Giffords and Kelly’s relationship, from their courtship until after the January 8 shooting…
It has no title or publication date yet, but you might want to add this book to your reading list now. Mark Kelly, NASA astronaut and husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced today that he and his wife are working on a memoir about their life together, before and after Giffords was shot January 8…
Dear Mr. Zaslow, My husband, toddler son and I left New York for Washington about a year ago. My relatives are in Atlanta; his are back in New York. Since we are close to both sets of parents, we travel very frequently to Atlanta or New York. We go to Atlanta two or three times…
Dear Mr. Zaslow: About two months ago, I sent a message to a woman on JDate whom I was very interested in. I didn’t hear back from her, and in the meantime I began dating an ex-girlfriend again. Recently, the woman from JDate e-mailed me, expressing interest and apologizing. She explained that she could not…
Dear Mr. Zaslow: I raised three daughters in a nice middle-class, haimish home. My youngest daugher is a real schnorrer — a cheapskate. She flaunts her frugality. Her home furnishings are “dumpster décor,” and sometimes, she’ll go to Costco and eat her lunch by sampling food served by the various demonstrators. Recently she told me,…
Dear Bintel Brief: Our son’s bar mitzvah is rapidly approaching, and we still are not sure what to do. My mother, who lives in a far away state, has Alzheimer’s and it will be very discombobulating for her and her aide to travel to us. Moreover, my mom won’t remember the event even a few…
Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist and the co-author of “The Last Lecture,” will be the Forward’s guest Bintel Brief columnist, answering reader questions during the month of March. When he was 28, Zaslow beat out 12,000 other applicants to replace the high priestess of advice, Eppie Lederer (a.k.a. Ann Landers), as The Chicago…
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