Linda Wolff

Delighted to have this piece on @BusinessInsider. The editors were a pleasure to work with. Some of you with aging parents might be able to relate. Love to hear your thoughts. businessinsider.com/sorting-throug…

Agree!

"Interrupt others with your more important ideas." mcsweeneys.net/articles/fortu…

20 years ago today, I released a song that bought me this house. Whoever thought a song about being high as a kite on drugs, stalking someone else’s girlfriend would resonate quite so much? Thank you. You guys are beautiful.

@stephpitera Hi Stephanie, Just sent you a pitch via the form in your bio. Thanks for reading!

I'd also love to assign some stories about relationships with older relatives!! Tell me about traveling with them, living with them, lessons they taught you, etc! Rates start at $200 for 600 words // no deadline to get in touch // submit via DM or the pitch form in my bio

When I overshare I prefer to do it in haiku. Link in bio. #TMI #oversharing #periodproblems #perimenopause #menopause thebelladonnacomedy.com/honest-haiku-f…

It was hard to imagine what it would feel like to be a grandma before our little princess arrived. Here’s how I feel and what I did to prepare for one of my greatest and most honored roles yet, becoming a grandma. thegirlfriend.com/relationships/…

Calling all grandmothers! What’s your ‘grandmother’name? Tickled to have my piece find a home at @BostonGlobe. Thank to the amazingly talented editor @christinemehta! It was a pleasure! bostonglobe.com/2025/01/21/opi…

Who knew as a new grandma I’d need a name too! Thanks for having me @FrazzledHumor! medium.com/frazzled/what-…

Introducing our Kid of the Year, Heman Bekele: The fifteen-year-old invented a soap that could one day treat, and even prevent, some skin cancers ti.me/3YFiQS6

This week, we’re bringing you a collection of humorous articles from the archives of The New Yorker—which was, after all, founded as a “comic weekly,” just shy of a century ago. Read the issue here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nSZxBV

Here’s where I spill the beans on my social life. Please enjoy my latest for @thegirlfriendletter. How do you keep your world from shrinking as you get older? Love to hear your thoughts. Link in bio. thegirlfriend.com/relationships/…

Who can forget the joy of receiving a postcard? This beautiful piece by @CandySchulman has inspired me to write postcards the next time I travel. nextavenue.org/postcards-forg… @NextAvenue

@RabbiWolpe @ELALUSA Safe travels!💙

Still the sole airline flying into Israel from the states is @ELALUSA and Ben-Gurion airport is still empty. But happy to have arrived in #Israel

So fun working with author and humorist @wendiaarons again! thegirlfriend.com/lifestyle/8-fu…

@RabbiWolpe Firing is a good start. It shows evil has consequences.

3/3      Battling that combination of ideologies is the work of more than a committee or a single university.  It is not going to be changed by hiring or firing a single person, or posting on X, or yelling at people who don’t post as you wish when you wish, as though posting is the summation of one’s moral character.  This is the task of educating a generation, and also a vast unlearning. Part of the problem is a simple herd mentality – people screaming slogans whose meaning and implication they know nothing of, or not wishing to be disliked by taking an unpopular position.  Some of it is the desire to achieve social status by being the sole or greatest victim.  Some of it is simple, old fashioned Jew hatred, that ugly arrow in the quiver of dark hearts for millenia.            In this generation, outside of Israel, we are called to be Maccabees of a different order. We do not fight the actual battle but we search for the cruse of oil left behind.  Remember the oil was to last one night, but lasted eight - which means there were seven nights of miracle.  But of course the first night was the greatest miracle — because the motivation to light the initial candle, to ensure the continuity and vitality of tradition in each generation, that is the supreme miracle.  Dispute but also create. Build the institutions you value, don’t merely attack those you denigrate.  We are at a moment when the toxicity of intellectual slovenliness has been laid bare for all to see. Time to kindle the first candle.  Create that miracle for us and all Israel — Blessing to you and Hag Urim Sameach.

1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped.  Still, there are several points worth making. I believe Claudine Gay to be both a kind and thoughtful person.  Most of the students here wish only to get an education and a job, not prosecute ideological agendas, and there are many, many honorable, thoughtful and good people at the institution.  Harvard is still a repository of extraordinary minds and important research.

@AccolaidiaMau @AvivaKlompas @IsraelWarRoom Thank you!!

A menorah lighting in Williamsburg, Virginia was cancelled because organizers claimed it would send a message that the festival was "supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women, and children.” Jews have been celebrating Hannukah for more than 2,000 years. The holiday commemorates a time when enemies tried to deny Jews their religious freedom. Don’t let the irony get lost on you.

@PublishersWkly What about freeing the hostages?

'Blackouts,' 'The Rediscovery of America,' 'unincorporated territory [åmot],' 'The Words That Remain,' and 'A First Time for Everything' won this year's NBAs at a ceremony that concluded with more than a dozen finalists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. pwne.ws/3G0UMyn

25 years of hostilities come to an end. Hilary bringing it to the nincompoops of the View so hard that the only comeback is a wan little "those were the days" tribute to Anwar Sadat (late of this world, 1981) has brought me back into the fold. HRC, you're the man. I salute you!