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DivorceTwo Jewish women-both in their twenties--look back.
One Woman’s Tenement Is Another’s Castle
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Where the whole family gathers to mark a 35th wedding anniversary.
Spring 2004
Twentysomethings look back at their divorced parents. Betty Boop is Jewish. Single-sex services in the name of pluralism. The poet Zelda’s sensual Hebrew verses. An unusual wedding anniversary celebration.
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The Guys in the Rabbi’s Class
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My husband had a teacher in his later years, a rabbi who was much too Orthodox for most of us, but so sweet and sympathetic, so learned and easy to learn... Read more »
Betty Boop
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Yes of course Betty Boop is Jewish. What made her a star, however, was not Jewishness, but overt sexiness. When Betty Boop was introduced in 1930 by her creators. Max... Read more »
Separate and Equal?
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Richman wants all her friends to be comfortable. But should feminists sanction prayer services that exclude one sex or another in the name of pluralism?
Translating Zelda
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A gifted poet and liturgist in her own right, Falk turns her high beam on Zelda’s sensual Hebrew verses.
A “Happy” Divorce
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Recalling strife-free “family” vacations with both her (not-yet-remarried) parents, Kramer may be the embodiment of the kid who is blissfully blind to the conflicts that fractured the family in the first place. Then her mom weighs in.
A Kashrut of Families
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Erlich struggles with her own elaborate rules, like separating milk and meat in a kosher kitchen, for how to make sure there’s minimal mingling. Her own wedding is the litmus test for how well she’s doing.
After the Seders, Snow
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I say no to soup and you frown: “But it’s perfect,” you say, “the matzo balls float up like clouds.” Instead, we bundle up, go out and dig bouquets of... Read more »
The Woman Who Shaped the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Her posthumous autobiography reveals why a woman’s suffering and vision changed the way the U.S. Holocaust Museum teaches about the Shoah.
