In this personal essay, Allie Zenwirth falls in love within the confines of an all-male Chasidic school.
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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
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Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion
A bracing essay on late-term abortion, and how American politics have made an impossibly difficult situation even more painful and dangerous for women.
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A Pact Between You, God, and the Dance Floor
Dancing the nights away with bar and bat mitzvah professionals known as “party motivators.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Harnessing His Superpowers for Peace in the Middle East
As an 8-year-old with OCD, Howard Lovy hoped his magical thinking might persuade God to end the Yom Kippur War.
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The Whistleblower in the Family
After her father was arrested for fraud, Pearl Abraham began the the slow, painful process of unraveling her Hasidic family ties.
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What Does It Mean to Be Jewish in Trump’s America?
At Vice, Eve Peyser belatedly embraces her Jewish identity after watching a rise in antisemitism ushered in by the new administration.
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Blithe, Euphoric, Grateful, and Over
Monica Uszerowicz reflects on what living through the Holocaust does to a survivor’s relationship to food, hunger, and eating for pleasure, and how these relationships get passed on to successive generations.
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Survivor Syndrome; or, Snacking While Jewish
“Milk was served proudly, whenever we could have it, as a way to celebrate life. Someone had been so close to death and seen so much of it and then survived.”
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Etgar Keret on Why Yom Kippur Has Always Been His Favorite Holiday
Yom Kippur was always my favorite holiday. Even in nursery school, when all the other kids liked Purim because of the costumes, Hanukkah because of the latkes, and Passover because of the long vacation, I was hooked on Yom Kippur. If holidays were like kids, I once thought when I was still a boy, then […]