Embracing Your Would-Be Convert, Would-Be Sister-in-Law
By Amy Sohn
Dear Bintel Brief:
My boyfriend and his brother come from a family with Jewish values. Their mother has imbued them with the importance of marrying within the faith. My boyfriend’s brother has only been dating a woman for a short period of time, but the woman insists that she is passionate about converting to Judaism. She has a volatile personality. I wonder how committed she actually is, and I worry for him. I don’t know how to tell my boyfriend how I feel, and I would never risk hurting him or his family. What can I do?
Amy Sohn responds:
October 19, 2009, 5:09pm
Be Less Fruitful, and Cut Down Your Carbon Footprint
By Amy Sohn
Dear Bintel Brief:
My husband wants to have a big family, but I think that in today’s world with all of the suffering and the need, no one family should have more than two children. As someone who wrote about the stroller capital of the world, who’s right?
PONDERING PREGNANCY AND POPULATION
Amy Sohn replies:
October 12, 2009, 2:28pm
How Can I Fire My Flower Girl?
By Amy Sohn
Dear Bintel Brief:
My oldest and dearest friend, one of my only friends with children, really wants her daughter to be the flower girl in my forthcoming wedding. Initially, I thought it was a good idea, as neither my husband nor I have young nieces. But now, I’m rethinking the matter: My friend’s daughter is only 2 years old and — perhaps, understandably, given her age — she’s not-at-all well behaved. I might go so far as to call her bratty. I’m pretty certain she’ll cause a fuss during my ceremony. What’s the best way to fire the flower girl?
PERPLEXED BRIDE-TO-BE
Amy Sohn responds
October 5, 2009, 3:03pm
Amy Sohn Has Some Advice for Forward Readers
By Bintel Brief
Writer Amy Sohn will be the Forward’s next guest Bintel Brief advice columnist, answering readers’ questions during the month of October.
Sohn is the author of, most recently, “Prospect Park West” (Simon & Schuster) — a novel about living, loving, hating and procreating in the leafy Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope. She is also the author of the novels “Run Catch Kiss” (Simon & Schuster, 1999) and “My Old Man,” (Simon & Schuster, 2004), and of two bestselling “Sex and the City” tie-in books. In addition, she co-created, wrote and starred in the Oxygen series “Avenue Amy.”
She is a former contributing editor and columnist at New York magazine, and has also been a columnist at the New York Post and England’s Grazia magazine. She got her start writing “Female Trouble,” a racy New York Press dating column that, she said, “elicited loads of invective from readers and shamed her parents at cocktail parties.”
A graduate of Brown University, Sohn lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
If you have a question for the Bintel Brief, email bintelbrief@forward.com. Selected letters will be published anonymously. The first installment of the Bintel Brief featuring Amy Sohn will be published Monday, October 12 at www.forward.com.
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