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Emily Shire is a former reporter and cheat sheeter for The Daily Beast. Her work has appeared in The Week, The Atlantic, and Salon. She covers popular culture, women's issues, health, and sex and dating.Send her a tip: tips@thedailybeast.com. You can also use our anonymous document submission system, SecureDrop. Click here to find out how.

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The Best Thanksgiving Movie You’ve Probably Never Heard of

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER

The stars and writers of the underrated indie remember its four diverse (and dysfunctional) families’ Thanksgivings—and the urgent lessons the movie holds for us 20 years later.

Emily Shire | Published Nov 26, 2020

NYC Is Reopening, but These New Yorkers Are Still Frightened

‘PINS AND NEEDLES’

New York City is in Phase II of reopening, but many residents remain traumatized by the impact of coronavirus over the last few months—and anxious about what the future holds.

Emily Shire | Published Jun 27, 2020
opinion

Women’s March Farrakhan Statement Is Too Little, Too Late

‘Work to Do’

In the meantime, several of its leaders seemed to stand by the Nation of Islam leader, with one even suggesting that the real issue was somehow Israel.

Emily Shire | Published Mar 06, 2018

This TV Show Is the Orthodox Jewish ‘Friends’

Seriously Funny

‘Soon By You’ follows six singles navigating the religious dating scene of New York’s Upper West Side. But you don’t have to be Orthodox, let alone Jewish, to enjoy the show.

Emily Shire | Published Jan 06, 2018
opinion

Linda Sarsour Echoes Donald Trump, Smears CNN’s Jake Tapper

Cul De Sac

The intersectional feminist movement has been making strange bedfellows, and becoming increasingly hostile to anyone who questions those additions.

Emily Shire | Published Jul 19, 2017
opinion

We Were Not ‘the Right Kind of Jew’ for Chicago’s Dyke March

Identity Politics

Two Jewish lesbians were ejected from Chicago’s Dyke March because of their Stars of David/‘Pride’ flags. The author says the organizers’ anti-Semitism is alarming and insidious.

Emily Shire | Published Jul 02, 2017

The New Way to Dress British

Island Pride

At New York Fashion Week there was edgy eccentricity from Jenny Packham, proud hipsters at Vaquera, and a boho paradise at Jonathan Saunders’s DVF.

Tim Teeman, Brea Tremblay, Emily Shire | Published Feb 13, 2017

Should The Single Jew Go Goy?

Ring on It

A friend told our correspondent: “Finding the right person is hard enough as it is. Why limit yourself?” Now she’s contemplating dating outside the Jewish faith.

Emily Shire | Published Oct 09, 2016

Why Kate Middleton Loves Jenny Packham

To The Nines

Her NYFW show displayed why she commands the devotion of celebrities like Taylor Swift, while KREWE’s gorgeous sunglasses defied geometric convention.

Emily Shire | Published Sep 11, 2016

Oberlin Students Silent on Anti-Semitism

PROTEST CULTURE

Students on campus are quick to protest incidences of supposed cultural insensitivity—even over sushi—but not when it comes to a professor’s anti-Semitism.

Emily Shire | Published Apr 05, 2016

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