Marjorie Ingall
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International News
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Israel News
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- Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’
- British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate
Arts & Culture
- Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
- Transforming the Y
- Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism
- EnviroJews Avant La Lettre
- Squeezing the Cultural and Historical Juice Out of Love in ‘Jaffa’
- Brutally Frank
Fast Forward
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
- The Doctor Who Had the Chutzpah To Write Music
- Nine Faiths, One Vegan Lunch at Windsor Castle
- High School Reunion
- Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
- Saving Pastrami on Rye
The Shmooze
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- The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
- Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
- Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
- Hummus Wars
- The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Forward Forum
- The Goldstone Standard
- The World That Jewish Veterans Built
- What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t
- Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?
- Calming the Temple Mount
- A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone
Editorial
The Eye of the Beholder
By Marjorie Ingall
Parenting is one long Jacob-and-the-angel-esque wrestling match with ethical dilemmas. Here’s this week’s bout: Maxine, age 4, was walking home from school with our wonderful babysitter Rita, and they passed a neighbor who often sits on her stoop. Maxine observed, loudly, “That lady is very fat!” Rita desperately hushed her: “Don’t say that!”Read More
When to Let Kids Quit?
By Marjorie Ingall
Josie wails, “I hate flute! I won’t play Takahashi Twinkle!” She hurls herself onto the couch, swanning and weeping like Sarah Bernhardt.Read More
Musical Motherhood
By Marjorie Ingall
Domestic Workers’ Rights: A Matter of Ethics
By Marjorie Ingall
My childhood Sedarim involved a slight disconnect. Perhaps yours did, too. Here we were, a big tableful of upper middle class white folks, reclining on pillows around a beautifully set dining room table, discussing our history as slaves… while Mrs. Dyer, our cleaning lady, bustled about in the kitchen, ladling out the matzoh ball soup and scrubbing the haroset-smeared dishes.Read More
Playing Dress-Up: A Purim Guide
By Marjorie Ingall
When I was 11, we were in Israel for Purim. I was shocked at the number of non-Esther, non-Mordechai costumes. There was a Karate Kid, a Darth Vader, various zombies and ninjas, a spandex-clad, gum-chomping Sandy from Grease.Read More
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