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Mayrav Saar: A Jewish Woman's View Straight Marriage, Gay Marriage and Blood Oranges
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Saturday, November 3, 2012. A Jewish Woman's View Straight Marriage, Gay Marriage and Blood Oranges. Are gay weddings destroying the institution of marriage? Let’s hope so. A few months ago the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly voted to approve two ceremonies for same-sex marriage that removes sexist language from the wedding liturgy, allows both parties to pursue divorce and lays out egalitarian rights and customs to both spouses. Oh yeah. Women. Unfortunately, the ruling on the new liturgy in...
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Mayrav Saar: September 2011
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Thursday, September 8, 2011. Shanah Tova, Super Jews! I hate seeing summer fade to fall. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops and blockbuster superhero movies vanish from the Cineplex in a, ahem, Flash. Many people developed Superhero fatigue this summer, what with Thor. All battling for our movie-going bucks. But I have a 6-year-old son and a geek for a husband; so in my household there can never be too many square-jawed men saving the world in skin-tight outfits. 8220;Look, Eema! 8221; I said.
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Mayrav Saar: Breaking Up is Havarti to Do
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Breaking Up is Havarti to Do. These are the hardest words I’ve ever had to write to a food product, but I have to be honest with you and with myself, and tell you that it’s over between us. We had an amazing run, Cheese. From those innocent days of Kraft singles and string cheese through those experimental college years of Stilton and Gruyere, you’ve been a constant in my life – the first food I ever truly loved. But I can’t go on like this. You will still be a presence in my l...
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Mayrav Saar: Remembering Ann
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Her name was Ann Chervin. I don’t know much about her. I don’t know which concentration camp she and her husband, Marion, were in or how they got out. I don’t know how her husband and their adult child, Eve, preceded Ann in death. Or why Eve was childless when she died. Her red rose bush is still here, too, the only plant that survived the year between her death and the time her home went on the market. I have a strict policy for my garden: I’ll only plant you, if I can ...I think...
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Mayrav Saar: You say Thanksgivukkah, I say Chanksgiving
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Sunday, November 10, 2013. You say Thanksgivukkah, I say Chanksgiving. This year, for the first time since 1888, Thanksgiving will overlap with the first day of Hanukkah, and I for one am excited to smother latkes with cranberry sauce. But even as I scour the Internet for pilgrim-themed dreidels and a turkey-shaped menorah (You’re welcome, Etsy shop owners), I’m feeling kinda sad. According to snopes.com. How to fill the void left by the fleeting Thanukkah? New Year’s Day and Yom Kippur. An interminable,...
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Mayrav Saar: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mommy
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Monday, November 26, 2012. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mommy. My parents put the breaks on my teenage plans to join the IDF long before my college admission letters arrived; and on the whole, I think it was probably a wise move on their part. How, basically, to function like a normal human being in the presence of a toddler. When a friend whose son is around Ozzy’s age recently confided that she hadn’t showered that day, I realized that I hadn’t either. Nor the day before. If she hadn...And then there’s ...
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Mayrav Saar: August 2013
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Sunday, August 11, 2013. A Letter to My Daughter. May your intellect and humor propel the human race forward. May your kindness inspire nations to beat swords into plowshares. May your beauty dazzle brighter than all the stars in the sky. But, most of all, may you be a colossal pain in the ass. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fearlessly writing the stuff other women are too smart to say out loud. Say It With A Smirk. There was an error in this gadget. A Letter to My Daughter. A Letter to My Daughter.
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Mayrav Saar: March 2014
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Breaking Up is Havarti to Do. These are the hardest words I’ve ever had to write to a food product, but I have to be honest with you and with myself, and tell you that it’s over between us. We had an amazing run, Cheese. From those innocent days of Kraft singles and string cheese through those experimental college years of Stilton and Gruyere, you’ve been a constant in my life – the first food I ever truly loved. But I can’t go on like this. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Jewish...
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Mayrav Saar: November 2013
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Sunday, November 10, 2013. You say Thanksgivukkah, I say Chanksgiving. This year, for the first time since 1888, Thanksgiving will overlap with the first day of Hanukkah, and I for one am excited to smother latkes with cranberry sauce. But even as I scour the Internet for pilgrim-themed dreidels and a turkey-shaped menorah (You’re welcome, Etsy shop owners), I’m feeling kinda sad. According to snopes.com. How to fill the void left by the fleeting Thanukkah? New Year’s Day and Yom Kippur. An interminable,...
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Poet's Guide to Motherhood: May 2013
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Poet's Guide to Motherhood. This is how we do it. Friday, May 31, 2013. Three years, seven months, and twenty-one days. Before I became a mother, I had a lovely morning writing routine. I wrote "Morning Pages" while I drank coffee. Dean played his guitar in the next room. It was peaceful and productive. I made lists, brainstormed ideas, planned my day. I sat at my desk in my bedroom, writing in a journal. Morning pages" are an idea of Julia Cameron's. Julia Cameron. Wrote The Right to Write. On Sunday af...
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