"I did this once and ended up sending birthday and Christmas cards to my friend's neighbor for two years," one person wrote.

Dear Bintel, For the past several years, I have been invited to a Passover Seder at the house of a distant relative who is a rabbi. There are normally a dozen or so attendees, mostly family members or ...

Meghan Daum writes about being "the toast of the town," only to see invites evaporate as her views fell out of step with social arbiters. But our critic suggests other issues could be at play.