"January 20, 2026 marks the 120th anniversary of #ABintelBrief, the #Forward’s #advicecolumn, launched in 1906 by the paper’s founder and publisher, #AbCahan. Tackling the personal challenges of Eastern #European #Jewish immigrants, #Cahan and the #BintelBrief #columnists who followed him would dispatch their advice with humor, compassion, and honesty.

By 1906, #DerForverts, as the Forward is known in #Yiddish, had grown over its initial three decades to become the leading Yiddish-language #newspaper in the #UnitedStates. But A Bintel Brief — Yiddish for “a bundle of letters” — was something the paper hadn’t tried before. Well, not exactly.

In his introduction to the very first Bintel Brief, which is preserved online at the National Library of #Israel, Cahan explained that the new column had been inspired by a section of the paper devoted to letters to the editor that launched three years earlier."

https://forward.com/culture/798666/a-bintel-brief-120th-anniversary/

Apparently I have opinions about hustling your family at pool in order to teach them to be better people.

https://slate.com/advice/2024/12/nephew-lesson-gambling-family-advice.html

#advice #advicecolumn

Have you read our first advice column? We've launched a series called "Dear Solarpunk Presents..." where we respond to questions or links or comments (etc) you've sent us about solarpunk and related things.

Not sure if something is solarpunk? Want the opinions of either @arielkroon or @xtinadlr?

We have a LOT of opinions, and we're very happy to be wrong but we can only learn if other people join our conversation.

So head over to our blog and let us know what you think!

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/dear-solarpunk-presents-is-it-solarpunk-when-billionaires-decide-to-build-a-solarpunk-city

(Disclaimer: we're not the arbiters of what is solarpunk or not; that would be very silly. This series hopes to provide a place for discussion where the solarpunk community can learn from each other!)

#solarpunk #solarpunkPresentsPodcast #blog #DearSolarpunkPresents #Advice #AdviceColumn #city #UrbanPlanning #Billionaires #SolarpunkCity #UrbanDesign #IsItSolarpunk? #QandA #Question #CaliforniaForever

Dear Solarpunk Presents...

We're launching an advice column! (Well, sort of...) Our first question is from a listener who wanted our opinion about the "California Forever" project to build a sustainable city in Solano County, California. Is it solarpunk?

Click through to see what California-raised @xtinadlr has to say about it, and join the conversation in the comments to share your opinion.

(Ariel also took a look at the project, but this is more in Christina's wheelhouse!)

-Ariel

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/dear-solarpunk-presents-is-it-solarpunk-when-billionaires-decide-to-build-a-solarpunk-city

#solarpunk #solarpunkPresentsPodcast #blog #DearSolarpunkPresents #Advice #AdviceColumn #city #UrbanPlanning #Billionaires #SolarpunkCity #UrbanDesign #IsItSolarpunk? #QandA #Question #CaliforniaForever

I like Captain Awkward and this is a good one

#CaptainAwkward #advice #AdviceColumn

https://captainawkward.com/2023/09/09/1406-photography-reciprocity/

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Anne Landers!

Esther Pauline Lederer took over and popularised the the Anne Landers column in 1918. Anne Landers or was an advice column in newspapers across the US and Canada. The advice column dealt with a variety of topics, but primarily focused on advice and ettiquite. Under Leaderer's leadership, the Anne Landers advice column retained much of the kind, gentle support that it had, but also promoted many radical positions at the time, and even now, including support for "women's liberation", support for homosexuality and "the homosexual lifestyle", and being pro-sex work.

Leaderer worked on Anne Landers until her death in 2002.

#JewOfTheDay #AdviceColumn #Feminist #proLGBT #ProSexWork #AdviceColumns #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

TLDR; Value your time, and don't use helium balloons. Confused? Yeah, so were we… Find out why this is the ultimate advice of our columnists Hannah and Isabella in this week’s edition of “Ask Anything”.

Read it here to find out what on earth they’re talking about: https://outloudmagazine.com/lifestyle/value-your-time-and-helium-balloons/

#advice #outloudmagazine #agonyaunt #advicecolumn