Julie Wiener's In the Mix blog 

The Strange Tale of Mitt, Mary And Goldfinger...

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 14:07

 

I’m late to the party here, but how could I not weigh in on Mitt Romney having dated a Jewish girl?

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The Not-Jewish-Enough Rivka Cohen, And The Big Fat (Fictional) Muslim-Jewish Wedding

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:38

A few items of interest on the intermarriage beat:

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In Which I Defer To My Colleague

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:09

My colleague Helen Chernikoff, perhaps sensing my delinquency of late when it comes to “In the Mix,” has written a thoughtful post for “The Yad,” our new staff blog.

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Patrilineals And Passover

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:10

 

One of the fun things about writing a blog is balancing the dueling pressure between Must Post Often and Must Say Something Compelling.

Generally I try to err on the Say Something Compelling, or At Least Moderately Interesting side. However, sometimes that, particularly when combined with competing demands on my time and brain, means being a completely delinquent blogger. For which, I apologize. I’m going to try to be a bit better in the coming weeks.

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Is Peter Beinart The New Steven M. Cohen?

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 12:18

Forgot those 50 rabbis Newsweek has been fussing over.

Journalist/author Peter Beinart may well be the most famous American Jew these days, at least among the New York Times-New York Review of Books-New Yorker-reading intelligentsia.

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Matzah Ball Soup For The Seoul?

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 13:59

 

Kimchee, the spicy pickled cabbage that is the signature dish of Korean cuisine, is one of my husband’s all-time favorite foods. (Must be to compensate for all the bland French Canadian fare he was subjected to as a child.)

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Shiny Happy Intermarried People

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:58

I’m not sure if this was intentional or not, but Kveller has two dueling interfaith narratives on its “Raising Kvell” blog right now: “Interfaith Family Bullying: When Do You Stop Fighting and Just Give Up?”  versus “Apparently My Interfaith Family Is Too Read more »

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Interfaith Families Are Funny, Too!

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:09

I have a confession to make.

For a long time, I’ve been unfairly dismissive of the “Everything’s Relative” comic strip that appears in this paper.

Too kitschy, too Borscht Belt, too Orthodox, I felt. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but the majority of American Jews are not, in fact, Orthodox.)

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An Odd Absence Of Women

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 14:09

I know I’m supposed to focus on intermarriage here, but sometimes I just need to vent on another topic.

And today that topic is, why are so many speakers’ panels at Jewish conferences composed almost entirely of men? I’m not talking about the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, although I did go to one of its dinners many years ago and there was not one woman on the dais. Which was striking, but not surprising. (If I remember correctly, the table assignments for the meal were also gender-segregated.)

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Reality Shows, Purim & The Feminist Rebbe

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:45

Perhaps because blogging, Facebook and Twitter more than satisfy my own need for exhibitionism and fame, I don’t quite understand why anyone would want to be on a reality show.

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