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Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a correspondent for GQ and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.

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    I Probably Won’t Share This Essay on Twitter

    Some thoughts on being Jewish in contemporary polite society

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
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    Just Say No to Margarine

    Jews have been hooked on fake butter for a century. It’s time to banish it from our kitchens.

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
  • (Avital Pinnick/Flickr)
    (Avital Pinnick/Flickr)
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    Material Differences

    My 3-year-old wanted a velvet yarmulke, like they wear at his Chabad preschool—an early skirmish in the values clashes I knew were coming.

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
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    Overtime

    The second day of some Jewish holidays is mandated by rabbinic tradition, not Torah law. In today’s world, they’re increasingly hard to observe.

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
  • Taffy and Claude Brodesser-Akner at their wedding.
    Taffy and Claude Brodesser-Akner at their wedding.
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    Intermarried: My Husband, a Convert, Is More Observant Than I Am

    When he became a Jew, I suddenly had new rules to follow—ones I thought I’d done away with years earlier

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
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    (iStockphoto)
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    Is Yoga Kosher?

    How a Modern Orthodox Jew struggled to reconcile her yogic practice with her Judaism

    byTaffy Brodesser-Akner
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