Benjamin Maron, Author at 18Doors

Gwyneth Paltrow Discovers Her Roots

Our celebrity columnist, Nate Bloom, just gave us a head’s up: This Friday’s episode of Who Do You Think You...

On Dame Elizabeth Taylor z”l and Conversion

Yesterday, the world lost an actress, an activist and a humanitarian when [url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/23/3086529/the-eulogizer-oscar-award-winning-actress-prominent-pulpit-rabbi]Elizabeth[/url]...

Conversion, Pop Culture

Slacker Hamantashen

By Benjamin Maron

Our friends at JewishBoston.com have been hard at work. Well, as “hard at work” as “slackers”...

Purim

Charlie Sheen

By Benjamin Maron

I admit it: I’m the last person to follow a story about Charlie Sheen. The truth is, I just don’t...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Natalie Portman, Hadassah and Dior

By Benjamin Maron

Though their website doesn’t mention it (yet?), [url=http://www.hadassah.org]Hadassah[/url]...

Pop Culture

Justin Bieber: Honorary Jew?

By Benjamin Maron

[quote]Justin felt that if it was something that Jesus would have said, he wanted to say it as well. (-[url=http://www.jewlicious.com/2011/02/justin-bieber-always-says-always-the-shema/...

Pop Culture

Gabrielle Giffords

By Benjamin Maron

This weekend, tragedy unfolded when a gunman opened fire in front of a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Six people...

Multicultural Food

12 Days of Hodgepodge

By Benjamin Maron

Let’s just call this a random hodgepodge. A bunch of stuff came across my desk (or over the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes]series...

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