Alina Adams Media

09/03/2025

Thank you to NBC New York for this lovely piece about NYC School Secrets:

As back-to-school season arrives across the tri-state area, the process of getting kids into New York City schools can be tough for parents to navigate. One woman says she has the secrets to getting students into their dream schools — and for her, it’s a money maker. Tracie Strahan introduces us...

08/24/2025

Hillary B. Smith talks Bo and Nora's rock and roll wedding:

The wedding was interfaith and that was very unique, because Nora was the only Jewish character on television at that time, and she’s still the only Jewish woman on daytime.

We had one day on set for it – it was going to be a long day – and we had Little Richard planned. We got there early in the morning, and we were getting everything else out of the way first. We got up there to rehearse, and Little Richard turned around and said, “Oh, by the way,” – this is about at 5 o’clock in the afternoon – “I have to be somewhere at seven.” And everyone sort of stared at him and said, “Are you kidding?” We weren’t even in hair and make-up or anything like that yet. We were like, “What?”

And so they had to quickly tape all of his scenes. I mean all of them, everything that he said, everything that he did, they had to tape. They held up cue cards and one of them said, “Hey, Bo and Nora,” and then, in parentheses (To The Crowd), “We can’t let these people get away.” And so he said, “Hey, Bo and Nora! To the crowd! We can’t let these people get away!” He read everything on the cue card.

Read her entire story, as well as dozens more at:

From the first radio soap opera in 1930 to network television and streaming today, daytime dramas have been full of heart-tugging, heart-breaking, and heart-stopping moments, storylines, and performances. But which can be classified as the very, very best of the genre? NYT best-selling author of...

08/17/2025

You won't believe how many gifted kids NYC has - or how they're identified! What this means for educating all American kids at:

Adams: Letting educators evaluate students has led to many more being flagged for G&T. That alone could set them up for greater academic success.

08/06/2025

Soft launch and you're the first to know! "My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region" is now an audiobook! What was it? Where was it? Why was it? Find out at:

My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region (Audiobook) - NYC School Secrets

08/05/2025

After listening to my husband and I explain why we are the most perfect couple ever, how we got that way, and how we intend to stay that way, please let me know if this has made you:

A) More likely to buy all my books

B) Less likely to buy all my books

C) Wonder why anyone ever allowed me to write books

D) Give up reading books all together in protest

A Literal Literary Loser Changes Course

07/24/2025

Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos just announced an updated “Cell Phone and Electronic Device Policy,” the implementation of which will provide for a citywide standard for distraction-free schools starting this coming academic year. This change — part of proposed amendments to Chancellor’s Regulation A-413 — was approved by the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) tonight.

Here is what parents had to say about it a year ago when the issue first came up, via The 74:

Adams: Social media addiction, student mental health, anonymous nastiness online, teachers as smartphone cops: why families say a ban is a good idea.

07/24/2025

Read the report by Alina Adams Media here https://open.substack.com/pub/families4newyork/p/why-nyc-jewish-families-are-choosing?r=kg901&utm_medium=ios

07/16/2025

"We transitioned to a private school and have been independent ever since. No government bureaucrat is going to keep us from teaching our collective values!”

“So now the school is paid for by the Socialist Workers Party?”

“In part. And, of course, everyone pays their fair share in tuition, we’re very cooperative.”

“In America, you pay for school? How much does it cost?”

“A few thousand dollars a year, we do our best to keep tuition as low as possible, so that the children can interact with peers from all walks of life. That’s very important to us.”

“They do not have free schools in America? Government schools?”

“I realize this is difficult for you to understand, coming from a classless society, but, the government schools, they’re called public, they are terribly… oh, how can I explain – they’re just terribly middle-class. They teach children bourgeois values like individualism. No surprise, they were established to perpetuate an oppressive, colonialist, capitalist way of life. The only way we can be certain our children value an egalitarian community where all are respected not based on how much money they have but on what they contribute to the greater whole, is by removing them from the brainwashing of our government. We need to protect them from any ideas which might prevent their growing into true revolutionaries, untainted by status quo pablum.”

A Literal Literary Loser Wraps Up

07/14/2025

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Emma said to the man who owned the means of production at a Socialist workers meeting.

“Your husband is doing terrific work. His first show ranked third overall for the week. We can’t wait to see what he comes up with next!”

“That is very kind of you,” Emma said to the man at the Socialist workers meetings who was raking in advertising revenue based on her husband’s labor. Though Dennis’ actual show had no commercials – Soviet Central Television had insisted on it – there were ads at the beginning and at the end – Soviet Central Television had insisted on splitting the profits.

A Literal Literary Loser Jumps on the Bandwagon

07/01/2025

Were you just thinking: I would love to listen to Alina talk some more but, boy, do I wish I could do it outside? Maybe on a roof?

Have I got the event for you! Please join me and fellow author David Denby at Ansche Chesed on Monday, July 14 at 7 PM for Scribblers on the Roof. And, yes, there will be wine!

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Monday evenings 7pm: Schmooze and Wine 7:15pm: Program   Join us to hear renowned Jewish writers read from and discuss their recent work on the Ansche Chesed roof. Beverages, snacks and books are available for purchase. If it rains, come anyway. We have a perfect indoor space. New this year! New st...

06/25/2025

"Go On Pretending," released on May 2025 is at #27 in Amazon Historical Russian Fiction Bestsellers, while "The Nesting Dolls," released July 2020 is at #29. I wonder if the older work is creating interest in the new one, or vice-versa?

06/24/2025

I discuss the Jewish Autonomous Region, Jews who bought Soviet lies, in*******al and interfaith relationships, and all sorts of other equally non-controversial things at The Jewish Lens podcast!

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Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Go on Pretending, Alina Adams!Alina discusses her book Go on Pretending, writing for Soap Operas,...