Emily Shire
By Emily Shire
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Recipes Shabbat Meals: Grown-Up Macaroni and Cheese
Last week, I impulsively decided to host my first Shabbat diner. Like buying a far too expensive pair of black patent leather pumps, I had hastily decided to embark on this meal on a gutsy whim with little foresight into the physical and emotional ramifications. One cab ride after being defeated by four bags of…
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Life Motherhood Can Wait… Right?
It was pretty impossible to be a female writer and not be aware of Judith Shulevitz’s Dec. 6 article in The New Republic on the aging of American parents. Not since the premiere of Girls was there such an eruption among the ladyblogs; it seemed as if everyone had her own perspective on the article’s…
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Life What’s Wrong With Modern Dating?
As with many great revelations, the benefits of practicing Shomer Negiah did not occur to me until I was on my couch in my pajamas, Facebook-stalking a guy I had dated. The moment I clicked on his profile, I suddenly noticed that he had listed himself as “in a relationship” less than one month after…
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News A Touchy Subject
I’ll always remember it because it was the first,” said Chana Lavaddin, 21, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. In the way that some convey the minute details of their first sexual encounters, Lavaddin recalled the chapped skin and firm grip of the first man who shook her hand, a former professor congratulating her…
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Culture It’s My Virginity, Not Yours
“There’s a dividing line between girls who have had sex, and girls who haven’t,” said Angela Chase, star of the cult ‘90s teenage drama “My So Called Life.” As melodramatic and myopic as Claire Danes’ Angela sounds, 21st-century popular culture still attaches transformative powers to sexual experience and views virginity (or lack thereof) as indicative…
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The Schmooze Yenta App Finds You a (Jewish) Match
In case you didn’t have enough grandparents, neighbors, and rabbis trying to make sure you don’t remain single and Jewish for long, your iPhone is getting in on the matchmaking game. Today, the New York Post reported that Yenta is a new app to solve your romantic and semitic woes. In a similar model to…
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Life Why I Love/Hate the Millionaire Matchmaker
When it’s approaching 1:00 a.m. and I’m simultaneously going through OkCupid profiles, receiving texts from someone entered in my phone as “Jason LES?” and wondering at what age I should consider freezing my eggs, I yearn for the days when matchmakers were the norm. My mind drifts back to the Eastern European shtetls. “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,”…
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Life Mila Kunis Is Good for the Jews
In the slightly dysfunctional, overly simplistic, but ever-popular game of categorizing Jewish national figures as good or bad for the tribe, putting Mila Kunis in the good for the Jews category is pretty much a no-brainer for me. She’s beautiful, talented, smart, outspoken, and even bilingual. It is little surprise that Esquire has crowned her…
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