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Spring 2015
Is a Slut the JAP in new clothing? When a cut-and-color becomes subversive at a Bedouin hair salon. The 2,000-year history of the “Israeli sandal.” Why Persian Jewish women have an identity crisis in L.A. Five Jews who’ll surprise you with victorious moments from panic or pain. How one film may change Jewish divorce decisions.
Subscriber Exclusive Victorious Jewish Moments
Five signal moments wrested from struggle...
- in a corner of the Hebrew school classroom Sari M. Boren
- down the crooked path to a daughter’s bat mitzvah Marty Ross-Dolen
- in a congregation’s response to attempted murder Monique Faison Ross
- in owning an abusive biblical text Pam Crow and Robert A. Lowe
- at a hard-won seder Susan Moldaw
Subscriber Exclusive About Those Canaanite Shoes That Have Been In Your Closet For 2,000 Years
Susan Schnur
Walking the narrative of Zionism
Subscriber Exclusive Letting Our Hair Down
Miryam Sivan
A cut-and-color becomes subversive at the author’s local Bedouin salon.
Subscriber Exclusive Why “I Am Not a Slut” Sounds Familiar
Susan Weidman Schneider
Susan Weidman Schneider talks to the author of the new book I Am Not a Slut about sex and the Jewish girl: the prude/slut contradiction, Jewish school dress codes, and sexual experimentation at bar at bat mitzvahs. Is the "slut" just the JAP in new clothing?
Subscriber Exclusive An Ode to Plastic Bags
Chana Widawski
"I’ve used mine as boot liners, shower caps, packing protectors, gloves for picking up gross things, doggie-bags for saving food, guarantors of a dry place to sit on a wet day, and as rain gear."
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