Author: InternsFall21

Jessica Keener’s Night Swim, A Decade Later

A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later. 

My Barbenheimer Childhood

The Barbenheimer phenomenon reminds us that we all contain multitudes, even contradictory multitudes.

Kibbitz & Nosh: Photographs

Dubrow’s Cafeteria was more than just a place to eat for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers and Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photo essay illuminates why. 

Bloody Bat Mitzvah

As a girl who is lucky enough to have access to information and supplies for my period, it’s my job to help other girls and women who don’t have as much as me.

Is Body Neutrality a Jewish Value?

“The road to a disordered relationship with food and exercise was paved with well-intentioned comments about my appearance and eating habits.”

Fiction: “Worms”

Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.