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Top 10 Reasons to Date an Israeli
January 12, 2015
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Blueprint
Compliments, self-confidence and deals on moving service.
10. Because looks matter.
9. He’ll always be reachable by cell.
8. Personal security adviser in event of a terrorist attack.
7. As long as you are...
Top 10 Things Not To Say at a Jewish Young Professionals’ Event
January 12, 2015
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Blueprint
10. “I’ve never had a real job.”
9. “You look a little like Anthony Weiner, from the waist up.”
8. “Financial security is so overrated, don’tcha think?”
7....
High Holy Days Service Crashers
January 10, 2015
by Heather Robinson
From The Jerusalem Blueprint
When we first moved to New York City in the late ’90’s, my friends and I, being young, single, and low salaried, decided it wasn’t too big a sin to “crash” Yom Kippur services....
I may not agree with what cartoonists said, but defend their right to say it
January 8, 2015
by Heather Robinson
Tonight the world is rocked by the news that Islamist militants attacked and killed 12 and injured many more individuals at a satirical magazine in Paris. A few initial thoughts on this.
“I may disagree with what you say, but...
United States prioritizes meetings with Islamists above liberals, Alusi charges
December 7, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi (pictured above) contacted me by phone last week to report that political moderates, liberals and secularists in Iraq are increasingly threatened as the United States spurns them in favor of...
A Modern Orthodox Miracle
November 4, 2014
by Heather Robinson
For one religious single woman, unmarried motherhood is a gift.
Divorced and childless at 23, each year for the next decade on Rosh HaShanah, Julie Yusupov would walk to her synagogue and, in hopes of one day becoming a mother, say a...
Forgiving Ourselves For Being Single
October 17, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Fighting off guilt at the High Holidays.
When Lee Bernstein, a Manhattan dentist, was in his late 30’s, he bought an engagement ring for his 26-year-old girlfriend, who had just graduated from dental school. Next he took it and...
Dershowitz: Carter, Tutu Have Gaza ‘Blood On Their Hands’
October 3, 2014
by Heather Robinson
In Jewish Week interview, ex-Harvard Law professor charges that former president, South African archbishop ‘encourage’ Hamas’ ‘dead-baby’ strategy.
In his new book, “Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War...
Behind the Scenes, Joan Rivers was a Class Act (and Nice!)
September 5, 2014
by Heather Robinson
I had the good fortune to interview Joan Rivers three times, and to hang out with her once (as press, and then kinda informally). The first time, I had to fight for the interview, and the third (and only in-person) time, I had to fight Joan...
Pro-Israel Iraqi Official May Be Tapped For Key Post In New Cabinet
August 21, 2014
by Heather Robinson
From The Jewish Week
Mithal al Alusi, honored by AJC for moral courage, says U.S. should unite region against terrorism.
Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi, whose support for Israel earned him the American Jewish...