Britta Lokting
By Britta Lokting
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Culture Susan Klebold Doesn’t Believe God Is Watching Over Her Family Anymore
In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered a kind of “religious warfare” in the community of Littleton, Colorado. The notion that she hadn’t raised her son to be…
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Culture Why Portland Is A Wretched Place For Jews To Date
I recently spent a month in my hometown, Portland, Oregon. I’ve been toying with the idea of moving back. My high school friends, once dispersed around the country, are back, going on lake cabin trips and having slip-and-slide backyard parties. And it would be nice to live near my family and in the place I…
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Culture What Jewish Singles Events Are Actually Good For
Last spring, I found myself sitting in the Hilton in midtown Manhattan with three other women and a matchmaker, discussing the actor version of our perfect man. I said Jason Segel because he’s funny and lovable. I had come to this initial group interview to research a potential story, but also out of personal interest…
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Culture Can This 28-Year-Old Rabbi Save A Landmark Brooklyn Synagogue?
When Rabbi Sam Reinstein arrived at the country’s first Jewish Comic Con, he didn’t seem to grasp the superhero symbolism emblazoned on his chest. A 28-year-old who prefers comedy to comics, he had decided to wear a humor T-shirt, which featured the Superman Logo wearing a black hat and peyes. He wandered through Congregation Kol…
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Culture A Very Personal Guide To Jewish Dating In 2017 (Part I)
Almost every week a Facebook event pops up on my timeline inviting me to mingle at a “20s and 30s” night with other young Jews. Sometimes I wonder if my mom is controlling my feed. I’ve attended at least a dozen of these functions over the past two years, usually with the prospect of meeting…
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think In the Dark Room
Susan Faludi’s “In The Darkroom,” a decade-long nonfiction project in which Faludi tries to understand her complex and volatile father after he undergoes a sex change, resonates not for this dramatic plot line, but for Faludi’s reporting chops. She examines her father’s relationship with the Holocaust as a Jewish boy growing up in Hungary and…
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The Schmooze How Did These Jewish Books Wind Up on the Banned Book List?
It’s Banned Books Week, and as it turns out, two of the books on the American Library Association’s “Frequently Challenged Books” list have Jewish ties. The first “Two Boys Kissing” was written by David Levithan, a New York Times bestselling author, who has also authored “Wide Awake,” about the first gay Jewish presidential candidate. “Two…
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The Schmooze Adam Levine Welcomes Daughter Dusty Rose
Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and his Victoria’s Secret supermodel wife Behati Prinsloo welcomed their first child Wednesday. Dusty Rose – it seems the odd-baby-naming phase amongst celebrities hasn’t died out yet – was born in Los Angeles after the couple tried for a home birth, according to US Weekly. The singer told Entertainment Tonight back…
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