Lenore Skenazy
By Lenore Skenazy
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Opinion News Quiz: Alice Walker’s Book, Chief Rabbi’s Arrest
What do Alice Walker, the Turkish prime minister and Hooters have in common? Aside from the fact they are all in this week’s news quiz? That is a good question. Feel free to tell us if you figure it out. Meantime, here goes after the jump!
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Opinion News Quiz: Putin Plays and Camp Clears Out
This week we race from Russia to Japan to D.C., New York and Israel. If this were an actual trip, it would cost you thousands of dollars. But, it’s not. It’s a quiz. Take it after the jump.
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Opinion News Quiz: Coke’s Creation and Google’s Big Buy
Pot, pork, pastrami: You can choose your vice in this week’s quiz, which also happens to include questions about Coke, wine and “Mad Men.” We’re going all Don Draper on you. Or at least Michael Ginsberg. Take the quiz after the jump.
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Culture Everybody Knows The Cliche Of The Jewish Mother — But What About Jewish Dads?
Happy Jewish Father’s Day — and you know what that means, right? Well, actually, you probably don’t. Because unlike Jewish mothers, who’ve got a stereotype that just won’t die (not even if it goes outside without a sweater), Jewish fathers are not defined as any one thing. Which got me wondering: Why not? Why are…
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Opinion News Quiz: L.I. Princesses, Female IDF Soldiers
Welcome back to the Forward’s weekly news quiz! It’s time to think about diamonds, dementia and the fifth edition of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Which may include a name for people who think about diamonds, dementia and diagnoses.) Also: Think about Michael Cera. Are you sure you’re thinking about Michael Cera?
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Opinion News Quiz: ‘Jews’ in Senegal and a Model Prom
Greetings! This week’s quiz takes us off on a hot date and then plunges into debt with a high-flying company that tanked. Plus we visit Milan for a treat, Senegal for a surprise and Brooklyn for a scare — and not just from the apartment prices. Take our quiz!
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Opinion News Quiz: Babs’s Honor, Israel’s Unlikely Ally
What do Mel Gibson, Joyce Brothers, Barbra Streisand and Stephen Hawking have in common? Almost nothing! And yet, here they are, all together in this week’s news quiz, along with Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Weiner and the Zionist Organization of America. It’s got all the makings of a terrible movie — but a great quiz!
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News Angelina Jolie’s Breast Surgery Decision and Perils of Being (Maybe) Over-Prepared
When Angelina Jolie decides to have her breasts removed because she carries the BRCA1 gene — a mutation that some Ashkenazi Jewish women also have and which has been linked to breast cancer — it’s a choice that must throw many, many women for a loop. If the world’s most famous and gorgeous woman/mother/Hollywood superstar…
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