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I Was Ghosted By My Rabbi Boyfriend
I usually open the dating apps — Hinge, Bumble, and JSwipe (not Tinder) — on my phone out of pure boredom. I chanced Hinge one night, tapping the “X” repeatedly as no one met my interest. I saw a...
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My Date With a Jewish Doctor Went Horribly Wrong
At a point when I was truly tired of the dating app rigamarole, while at my favorite local bar with my best friend who was in town visiting, I exasperatedly declared, “I just want to meet someone in...
View ArticleI Chose a Boy Over Passover. Surprisingly, It Brought Me Closer to Judaism.
The first time I ate hametz on Passover, I felt like a badass, because unlike Eve, nothing happened to me when I took a bite of forbidden fruit (well, bread). Much to my Jewish mother’s chagrin, I...
View ArticleThe Danger of Calling a Jewish Man a ‘Nice Jewish Boy’
In college, I went out on an ill-fated date with an older, white Jewish man. Honestly, I wasn’t all that into him, but hey, you never know until you give it a shot, right? Well, I quickly knew that he...
View ArticleI Really Thought I’d Be Married By Now
I stopped counting quarter- and half-year birthdays sometime between diapers and Barbie dolls, partly because no one cares that you’re 12 and one quarter, but also because as I got older, age lost its...
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My Orthodox ‘Boyfriend’ Was Living a Double Life
Where to start? I’d just gotten out of a bad six-year relationship with a non-Jewish guy. I was about to move to Boston for grad school, so I thought why not hop on a dating site and find an NJB? You...
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My Boyfriend Turned Out to be an Anti-Semite
It’s a funny story, actually. But like, in a wow-that’s-fucked-up kind of way. The scene is the summer of 2018, freshman orientation week at Ithaca College. Single and ready to mingle, I downloaded...
View ArticleI Told My Fiancé Not to Convert to Judaism. Now I’m Reconsidering.
I don’t remember exactly how soon it was after we got engaged that my fiancé, Tony, offered to convert to Judaism. But I do remember telling him not to. For us, the decision to get married was less of...
View ArticleHow Sephardic Women Are Changing What it Means to be ‘Wife Material’
“I don’t think that I’m wife material,” I said to my therapist last year. I’d been trying to work through my fear of marriage in therapy for years, but it never occurred to me that I’m not actually...
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Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird Are the Greatest Power Couple
I have always been obsessed with the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team. (See my elementary school diaries for proof.) So naturally, I love World Cup season. (If the men’s tournament isn’t called “the...
View ArticleHere’s Every Reason Why Elaine from ‘Seinfeld’ Broke Up With Her Boyfriends
Arguably — it’s me, I’m the one who’s arguing it — the only good thing about Seinfeld is Elaine Benes, played by the illustrious Julia Louis-Dreyfus. A vivacious woman in a band of idiot schmucks, her...
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Who Is Ben Shattuck, Jenny Slate’s Fiancé?
Updated on September 10, 2019. In January 2019, Jenny Slate “stepped out” with “a new man” at Sundance Film Festival. This was nearly a year after she split, again, with Chris Evans. (You can read a...
View ArticleMy Interfaith Relationship Renewed My Connection to Judaism
Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Minister of Education, recently claimed in a cabinet meeting that interfaith marriages in the United States are “a second Holocaust,” according to JTA. Besides that being...
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A Timeline of Zoë Kravitz and Karl Glusman’s Relationship
Zoë Kravitz is, simply, the best. She’s a style icon, uses her platform for social justice, and is literally the only reason to watch the Fantastic Beasts Harry Potter spin-off movies. (Okay, maybe...
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I Dated a Rabbi From My Synagogue. It Didn’t Go Well.
The first time I saw him, he was crossing the road in front of my car at the traffic lights, smiling to himself. Something in his confident gait caught my attention, and it took me a moment to process...
View ArticleI’m Tired of Self-Deprecating Jewish Humor
The other night, I found myself on a first date with a handsome baseball player in his mid-20s. He was six foot two with a dazzlingly gorgeous face, a sculpted jawline, a literal six-pack physique, and...
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I Was a Young Widow Who Feared I’d Never Have Kids, But Life Had Other Plans
A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay about being a young widow. A childless, young widow. About how I might never get to have kids because the man I was once engaged to — the man I thought I’d be...
View ArticleWe’re Obsessed With These Jewish Romance Novels
I started reading romance novels when I was home from college on a break. My mother realized that I was investigating the pile of books she kept on her bedside table, and strategically placed one on...
View ArticleWhat Living in Amish Country Taught Me About Being Jewish
I have always been described as an old soul — my mother would be the first person to tell you, “She’s 28 going on 82.” I have never been to a nightclub, I prefer espresso or tea to a cocktail, and I...
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A Bad Break-Up Sent Michelle Obama’s Speechwriter Down a Jewish Path
Bad break-ups are known to be the cause of several time-honored traditions: chopping your hair off and/or getting bangs; dying your hair and/or getting bangs; re-joining Tinder; re-quitting Tinder;...
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