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Need advice on kids, love, family, work, neighbors or anything else in your life? @jdforward's @bintelbrief has the answers to your problems -- and if we don't, we'll find the expert who does. Email [email protected] and read our past columns here forward.com/tag/bintel-brief…
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In today's @bintelbrief, Bintel figures out how to solve a problem that Jerry Seinfeld couldn't: Avoiding get-togethers with someone you'd rather not see forward.com/culture/714184/b…
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Is it OK to ask your Seder host if you can bring a guest to an already-crowded table? The @bintelbrief advice column says three magic little words can help reduce the awkward factor forward.com/culture/711712/s…
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'Dear @bintelbrief: I live in a Muslim country. Speaking out against antisemitism has left me isolated.'
Bintel says: Thanks for your allyship. Now go out & find some like-minded friends. Column in @jdforward: forward.com/culture/688645/b… Got a question for Bintel? [email protected]
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Because it’s tied to the weekly Torah portion, a bar mitzvah can’t easily be postponed.
So two boys displaced by the LA fires had theirs yesterday—in synagogues they’d never stepped foot in before.
How their makeshift celebrations came together:
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Here's my latest @bintelbrief advice column for @jdforward, responding to a reader trying to persuade colleagues that Trump "won't be good for the Jews." forward.com/culture/685360/t… Got a problem you could use help with? Email [email protected].
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I rounded up some fiery reader responses on social media to the latest @bintelbrief at @jdforward.
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A pleasure talking Tateh with Brandon Uranowitz (!) for @jdforward in advance of @NYCityCenter's Ragtime's opening night.
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If you're interested in all things Mexican or Jewish or the occasional overlap between them, and/or you like to cook and read about food history, this story about a Mexican Jewish cookbook for @jdforward by yours truly is for you: forward.com/culture/666487/m…
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With less than three weeks before the election, a new national poll, conducted for the Forward by CHIP50 with support from the Knight Election Hub, sheds light on what’s on Jewish voters’ minds. 🧵
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I wrote for @jdforward about all the creative ways that New York City apartment-dwellers find space for their sukkahs: on balconies, sidewalks, rooftops, in alleys, parks and more. My photos do not do these beautiful, ingenious structures justice! forward.com/culture/664573/s…
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You think #JimmyCarter100 is a big deal? Methusaleh would consider him a teenager. @benyamincohen (not yet 50!!) has the biblical perspective on this epic birthday forward.com/fast-forward/659…
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A mother is grieving over her daughter's anti-Israel stance in the year since Oct. 7. @jdforward's legendary @bintelbrief column, written this week by @noraeberman, offers guidance. forward.com/culture/653010/b…
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The lie has echoes of another conspiracy theory, writes @miraefox.
The Medieval blood libel alleged “that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood in matzo. Later, the Nazis invoked the conspiracy to stoke and validate hatred against Jews.”
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During the debate, Trump raised a conspiracy about immigrants eating cats. Is it the new blood libel?
Trump made a baseless allegation referring to an online conspiracy about Haitian immigrants in Ohio stealing and eating people’s cats and dogs.
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He had a gender-affirming bar mitzvah in the same synagogue where, before transitioning, he had a bat mitzvah as a teenage girl. Mine today for @jdforward forward.com/culture/652524/t…
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forward.com/culture/music/65… Interviewed some religious bluegrass musicians for @jdforward 🪕🎻🤠🕍
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I've literally got 8 hours before this story is completely irrelevant. So read it now, friends! A tour of Jewish Philadelphia, mine today for @jdforward forward.com/fast-forward/652…
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One of the 1st elections I covered for @AP was Schumer-D'Amato in '98, where D'Amato called Schumer a "putzhead." Today @RJC head @normcoleman called him "Chuck Schmuck." For @jdforward: Schumer's enemies just can't resist cursing him out in Yiddish forward.com/fast-forward/651…
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As a NYC kid who took the subway alone from the age of 12, as did my own kids, it is hilarious to me that I had to find out 'why Doug Emhoff took the bus to Hebrew school.' But I did it! For @jdforward forward.com/news/647241/doug…
