Less than a month ago, in the town of South Hadley, Massachusetts, a 15-year-old Irish girl named Phoebe Prince killed herself. Apparently, she’d been the victim of intense bullying, of both the IRL and cyber varieties, and two days before a big high-school dance, she committed suicide. Pretty miserable. For me, it hits especially close …
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Goy Foils Coy Ploy, Wins Boys
Score two points for the forces of fatherhood and secularism: In France, a dad has just won custody of his sons after their mother kidnapped them, moved to Israel, and joined a community of charedim, or ultra-orthodox Jews. This is pretty significant stuff, as it required the Israeli High Court of Justice to give custody …
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Brooklyn Locavore Edition
I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about two things: What to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner What to do when the apocalypse comes Recently, I realized that #2 will undoubtedly affect #1, but also that current eating trends here in Brooklyn may provide a solution. I’m talking about locavorism, the hifalutin approach to …
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How to Institutionalize Your Toddler
Last night over dinner with an old friend, I found myself explaining, for the nth time, our childcare situation: We have two nannies, one who works three days a week and is awesome, and another who works two days a week and is pretty good. There’s one problem with both of them, however. Together, they …