April 20, 2012

A Radio Destroyed My Jewish Marriage

Shulem Deen, Salon

When I first brought home our sleek, silver, double-deck, Panasonic stereo cassette player during the summer of 1993, my then-wife, Gitty, frowned.

“It has a radio,” she said with an accusing glare.

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