Beth Harpaz
Reporter at Forward
@jdforward, ex-@AP. Author, 3 books, including the original "Girls in the Van" about @HillaryClinton. Fledgling playwright ISO producers.
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1 week ago |
forward.com | Beth Harpaz
Bintel disagreed with a recent New York Times Work Friend column in which a boss asked if it was OK to make a Jewish employee work on Christmas and other major Christian holidays. This boss allows the employee - who is the sole Jew on staff - to take off Jewish holidays like Passover and Yom Kippur without using paid time off. The letter-writer said the worker is "double-dipping" by getting both the Jewish and Christian days off.
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1 month ago |
forward.com | Beth Harpaz
Dear Bintel,I love Judaism and Jewish culture. I would love to convert and be a part of the tribe, but I don't intend to undergo circumcision, and I don't want it for my future children, either. My family - at least recently, I don't know about earlier, maybe, but who knows? - isn't Jewish.What should I do? What can I do? I would love for an answer or somebody to ask if possible. I've wondered about this for years. I live in Sicily.
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1 month ago |
forward.com | Beth Harpaz
Dear Bintel,I'm reaching out on behalf of a friend. She married a man who belongs to a synagogue in an affluent suburb. Going to shul there, they got to know another couple and started dining out together. On three occasions in a row, the other husband found something wrong with his meal and sent it back to the restaurant kitchen.Then my friend threw a surprise birthday party for her husband and invited 75 guests, including the other couple.
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1 month ago |
forward.com | Beth Harpaz
By Beth Harpaz April 11, 2025Dear Bintel,For the past several years, I have been invited to a Passover Seder at the house of a distant relative who is a rabbi. There are normally a dozen or so attendees, mostly family members or significant others of family members, and space sometimes gets a little tight.A friend of mine just moved to my city and asked me if I knew of any Seders he could attend.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
forward.com | Beth Harpaz
Dear Bintel, Some time ago, I began connecting the dots and naming for the first time that I think I am queer/bisexual. (For full context, I have only ever been in sexual relationships with men and am a woman in my 40s in a committed, loving marriage with a man.) Coming to this realization both was and was not a surprise; I had had inklings of my attraction to women before, but had always brushed them off.
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RT @bintelbrief: Today in @jdforward's @bintelbrief advice column: Can a man convert to Judaism without being circumcised? https://t.co/atK…
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