Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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Life A Kinky Stroll Though the Old Neighborhood
Looking to put some kinkiness into your weekend? The kind that even your rabbi might (might!) approve? The group KinkyJews is hosting an afternoon stroll replete with “Jews, Sex, and Politics” this Sunday on New York’s Lower East Side. Back in April, The Forward reported on the kinkiest Seder (more S&M than bitter herbs) put…
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Life The Debate Over Chromosome-Centric Media
Are women’s voices being ghettoized in the name of niche media? Ann Friedman, deputy editor of The American Prospect recently tackled this very query in light of Slate’s spin-off, Double X, and its debut. It should be mentioned that a founding editor, Hannah Rosin, has been giving smart answers to readers’ questions on the Bintel…
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Life State Dept Atwitter Over Young, Jewish Tech Tutor
Oh, to be young, Jewish, and the State Department’s tutor on how to tweet. Jared Cohen, 27, roughed it in Iranian speakeasies drinking bootleg moonshine, and scarfed hamburgers with friendly members of Hezbollah in the name of reporting on Middle Eastern youth culture. After two books worth of these antics plus sneaking across borders and…
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Culture Bringing Up Kids in America
Sam Apple is a modern journeyman who curiously encounters the world with pen in hand. First, he trailed a Yiddish-singing sheepherder through tiny villages in Austria to write “Schlepping Through the Alps.” Now, Apple tackles the bug-eyed wow of becoming a first-time father in his new memoir, “American Parent.” Allison Gaudet Yarrow: Who is the…
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Culture Head of the House
It may come as a surprise, but there are Jews in the U.S. military. Alison Buckholtz’s Navy pilot husband, Scott, is one of them. Buckholtz and her young children moved across the country to a town with no synagogue, few Jews, and soon no Scott – who would leave for a 7-month deployment. Her new…
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Life Judaism – There’s An App For That
In honor of the new iPhone updates just announced today by Apple, we here at the Forward wanted to share our Top 5 Jewish iPhone Apps, and since we’re mindful of the tough times, we chose only those applications under $1.99. iBlessing: “Blessings Often Come in Disguise. This One Comes in Your iPhone.” $0.99 No…
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Life Sacha Baron Cohen’s Award Show Antics
Sacha Baron Cohen’s ostentatious characters are beloved for satirizing American phobias and closed-minded discomforts relating to social issues. In 2006, Borat’s cross-country journey mocked antisemitism and xenophobia. And now Bruno — Cohen’s gay Austrian fashion worker character whose self-titled film premieres this summer — pokes at the empty quest for excess, and its unfettered fear…
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Life Sotomayor and the Mikveh
The Sonya Sotomayor bashing has reached a despicable low. It wasn’t enough that Newt Gingrich called her a racist. No, now conservative radio host and convicted felon, G. Gordon Liddy, is going after the Supreme Court nominee’s cycle. Not her bike, her monthly one — if, indeed, she is still menstruating. Liddy sounds like a…
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