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Gosselin tells parenting blog he loves Jews, shops at Zabar’s
By Jesse Oxfeld | 10:15 AM Oct 13, 2009

ParentDish blogger Susan Avery interviewed reality-TV star-cum-cad Jon Gosselin last week, and we here present a selection from that interview, offered with no comment beyond ParentDish’s headline, “Jon Gosselin Loves His Kids, His Girlfriend and the Jews.” Because, really, what else is there to say?
PD: Let’s try a happy topic. What are your plans for ...

Family

Wolves at the Door

My brother and I carried our shared past in different directions
By Lawrence Levi | 10:53 AM Jan 6, 2009

One of my mother’s most vivid early memories is of the Nazis trying to break down her door. She was five, and the door was the big, heavy front one on the house she was born in, a few yards from the Arno in Florence. It was 1944. As she tells it, the Nazis, who ...