Ultimately, whatever your feelings about intermarriage, the Forward's kvelling over Clinton lover, Mezvinsky is like the TMZ of wedding announcements. "Look, something is happening that is completely mundane and uninteresting--but it's being done by someone famous!"
Yeah I can't eat gluten. But, I refuse to be That Guest who is also a Pain in the Ass—the one who whimpers and whines, “I can’t eat this, or that, and the other thing that is for SURE poisonous. Say, do you have some FRUIT?”
Every Monday night, when I watch Gossip Girl, I ask myself isn't there something better I should be doing with my life? Like writing about how awful this show is?
The author of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry stops by to chat about his book, the USSR and the Jewish political establishment.