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When I hear about antisemitic violence, I just feel numb. What’s wrong with me?
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to [email protected]. Dear Bintel, When I first heard about the most recent attack in Vienna,…
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I grew up poor; now I’m not. How do I teach my kids about money?
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to [email protected]. Dear Bintel, I grew up poor, and in a household where what we…
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Do I have to wear a skirt to an Orthodox rabbi’s house?
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to [email protected]. Dear Bintel, This happened earlier this year, before my time abroad was cut…
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Same election. Different Jews. Very different prayers. Read a selection here.
These days, we’re the people of the tweet. Also, the Trump flag repurposed as a prayer shawl. Indeed, Jews on both the right and left have responded to the chaos of Election 2020 much as Jews have for millennia. We cried out in prayer — or at least online. “I pray that I can put…
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Now that weddings are all on Zoom, must I really buy a gift?
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to [email protected]. Dear Bintel, I’ve always been a little lackadaisical about weddings gifts. There’s nothing…
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Like a Prayer: ‘The Daily’ podcast helps me get through the day
Who knew a podcast could feel like a spiritual practice? During this pandemic, The Daily, produced by The New York Times, has become an odd kind of reset for me. The crazy world feels a little less crazy when I hear the distinctive voice — congenial but punctilious — of its host, Michael Barbaro. The…
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I fed my guests non-kosher food. Do I have to tell them?
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to [email protected]. Dear Bintel, I know this is bad. A few years ago, I moved…
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Portraits of the healers: Orthodox doctors and nurses in their own words
They stumble as they speak, hitting verbal walls as they struggle to balance emotion and expertise. They are exhausted after months of fighting COVID-19 as medical professionals — and of facing misinformation and mistrust when they return home to Orthodox communities, where skepticism about the coronavirus runs high. “It’s hard, it’s very hard,” one Orthodox…
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What the curse of Eve teaches us about post-partum motherhood
At no point in the two hour class on breastfeeding did the instructor ever mention the word “cluster-feeding.” She never mentioned that on the second night of my son’s life, he would feed all night long. And then again a few nights later. Some nights I would catch a break from 2:30 am to 4:00…
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Where schmoozing meets suffrage: meet the all-online tribe getting young Jews to the polls
On Wednesday night, about 50 young Jewish women gathered to hear a stump speech from Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen, a self-described “young-at-heart Jewish woman” and surrogate for the Biden campaign. Instead of standing in an auditorium or a stadium, the women were sitting at desks or in bed, brought together virtually by Jewish Women for…
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Amy Coney Barrett may threaten access to IVF, and Jewish fertility advocates are worried
When does life actually begin? Some conservatives — Supreme Court Justice candidate Amy Coney Barett among them — believe that it begins at fertilization. That poses a potential challenge not only to abortion advocates, but to the one in eight American couples suffering infertility — and many Jewish organizations and fertility advocates are concerned about…
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