My Obstetrician’s Rx: Liverwurst October 8, 2009

THE FORWARD-October 06, 2009 A Mother-to-Be Ponders Giving Birth Abroad By Deborah Kolben When I moved to Berlin last year, I settled into a Bohemian-chic neighborhood in what was formerly East Berlin. Despite Germany’s declining birth rate — the once decaying buildings here, where coal ovens and shared bathrooms have been replaced with stainless steel [...]

My Meidel Is the Centerfold September 12, 2002

BITCH MAGAZINE—Spring 2002 (reprinted in The Guardian) Growing up, I learned a few things about Jewish girls from the copy of Truly Tasteless Jokes my brother kept in our bathroom. In addition to being frigid and cheap, I learned that we love Bloomingdale’s, dislike oral sex, and prefer circumcised penises—as the joke goes, we like [...]