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Compared to every other wealthy country in the world, America is staunchly anti-family and anti-mom.
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Devastating Mother’s Day Tribute To Non-Biological Moms
Comedian Sarah Silverman is kind of our collective beloved Jewish child — we think everything she does is gorgeous, above-average, and maybe should qualify her to be president. But even if you don’t regard the 48-year-old comic as a kind of high-ponytailed messiah, you have to admit that the Mother’s Day tribute she posted to…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Girls Going Bra Shopping With Mom Captures A Quintessential Jewish American Experience
“Look what I brought you — fresh, virgin, breast meat!” It is a right of passage in a young Jewish woman’s life to be dragged by her mother or other female authority to a dingy room, to be measured by a woman who grew up in a time with different standards for personal boundaries for…
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Culture How Should A Mother Be?
Motherhood By Sheila Heti Henry Holt, 304 Pages, $27 Reading Sheila Heti’s new book “Motherhood” in public presents a particular challenge: Twice, in recent days, I was asked, by people clearly unfamiliar with Heti’s work, if I’m expecting. Which I am not, thank you very much. But, even considering the potential for bruised feelings, reading…
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Community Learning About Motherhood — And Addiction — Through Horses
Adina wanted to run, to fly, to get lost in the motion of the horse. I wanted to help her get there. After weeks of teaching her techniques and building her confidence, I felt she was ready. We reviewed the appropriate motions — hands, feet, voice. She nodded. I nodded back, giving her the green…
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The Schmooze Drew Barrymore Just Released A Spectacular Comment On Motherhood
“Olive has a working mom,” begins Drew Barrymore’s essay on parenting, which she released on Friday on Instagram next to a picture of her daughter assiduously marking off days on a calendar when her mother will be out of town. Barrymore, who with her ex-husband Will Kopelman is raising her two daughters Olive, 5, and…
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The Schmooze Darren Aronofsky, Stop Trying To Make ‘Mother!’ Happen
Darren Aronofsky, the man who sees scarves as an extension of his penis, has once again seized the attention of the public to complain that we don’t get his art. Ok, man. Aronofsky, whose 2017 thriller ‘Mother!’ received a score of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes (ayo) and was described by the New Yorker’s Richard Brody…
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Life After Many Miscarriages, I Didn’t Want To Complain About Motherhood, Ever. And Then I Became A Mother.
“I was so tired I just wanted to throttle her,” one mom said with a little laugh to show she wasn’t planning on harming her toddler. “And then when I finally went to the living room she’d spilled rice all over the floor!” The moms at the party nodded in complicity, adding their own tales…
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A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.