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Culture Long before the blockbuster movie, Barbie taught me how to embrace Judaism — and celebrate Yom Kippur
A 2005 documentary showed me that the history of Barbie and the history of American Jews are weirdly connected
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Opinion Why do so many conversations about Israel exclude more than half of the Jewish population?
The maleness of the American Jewish conversation on Israel is becoming a problem
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Looking Forward ‘You don’t have to look to the sky’ to see a superhero
Readers told us who their superheroes are, plus watch our conversation with Etgar Keret
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Looking Forward She demanded girl superheroes. Then she became one.
For decades, I kept a column published in the Los Angeles Times . I finally spoke to the woman who wrote it
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Books Why the ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ movie is for grown-ups more than girls
The new adaptation of Judy Blume's 1970 classic might really be about Margaret's mother
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Culture Hello, my name is Vashti: Meet a museum founder, a singer, an author and an Olympian
These modern-day Vashtis bear the name of the woman who paved the way for Purim’s Queen Esther
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Culture Sophie Zucker is ready to suck face
The comedian talks to the Forward about her uncensored one-woman musical, making fun of Manhattan and being extremely Jewish onstage
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