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Life Transgender Model Hari Nef Makes Cover Of Newly Launched Magazine
Hari Nef, one of the first transgender models signed to a major modeling agency and one of 2015’s Forward 50, is the cover star of a newly launched women’s magazine called No Man’s Land. The cover depicts a striking image of Nef clad in a high-necked, glittery dress (a dress that looks as if it…
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Culture This Sexual Assault Story From 1913 Is All Too Familiar Today
Though some of the presentation is different, this story from the Forward’s June 23, 1913, edition is all too familiar: A man in power abuses a young woman or girl so egregiously that she can’t even stop to think of the consequences of speaking out, and she protests. As soon as her protest is made…
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Culture Why Portland Is A Wretched Place For Jews To Date
I recently spent a month in my hometown, Portland, Oregon. I’ve been toying with the idea of moving back. My high school friends, once dispersed around the country, are back, going on lake cabin trips and having slip-and-slide backyard parties. And it would be nice to live near my family and in the place I…
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Culture How The ‘Alt-Right’ Normalizes White Supremacy
Making Sense of the Alt Right By George Hawley Columbia University Press, 232 pages $28.00 Since World War II, American political life has been defined, in part, by a rejection of overt anti-Semitism. Following the Holocaust and the creation of Israel, conservatives and liberals alike have largely agreed that anti-Semitism, and anti-Semitic dog whistles, should…
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Culture Do Bar Mitzvahs Prepare Us For Adult Anxiety?
This is the third in a series of essays examining the Bar and Bat Mitzvah in America. A bar mitzvah has many meanings. Mine was simultaneously a religious ceremony, a miniature family reunion, a finish line marking the end of years of Hebrew school and — still, to this day — the largest party ever…
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Culture Why My Bat Mitzvah Was The Happiest Day Of My Life
This is Part 2 in a series of articles examining bar and bat mitzvahs in America. Until the day I married, my bat mitzvah was the happiest day of my life. I realize that makes me an anomaly, or at least a rare species among American Jews, whose bar and bat mitzvah experiences seem freighted…
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