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Beneath a Pile of Tulle and Tiaras: Talking with Devorah Blachor

I was hunting around for my copy of Devorah Blachor’s new book, The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess: How to Raise a Girl Who’s Authentic, Joyful, and Fearless—Even if She Refuses to Wear...

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This Week in Trumplandia

Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe...

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Death and Rebirth: Armenians in Jerusalem

Artist Vic Lepejian sketched a ripe pomegranate onto an unburnished vase when my husband David and I entered the doorway of his art studio located on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa—the street where Jesus is...

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Swinging Modern Sounds #96: Voices of Displacement

A-Wa is a vocal ensemble, a band, a dream, an elegy, a small mobile collective of rhapsodes, three sisters of Yemenite Jewish origin, singing primarily in Arabic. The sisters are Tair Haim, who is the...

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Keeping Yiddish Alive: A Conversation with Josh Lambert

If you live in America, chances are you know some Yiddish—even if you think you don’t. You know it if you’ve eaten a bagel or a matzo ball, if you’ve ever said shmuck or schmo or glitch or shlep. My...

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When the Healing Place Exploded

“I am good. Ana mnih. ANA MNIH. MAMA. ANA MNIH. KHALTOU. ANA MNIH.” These are the messages my brother-in-law, Rami, sent on the family Whatsapp group between 6:08 p.m. and 6:09 p.m. Beirut time, right...

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The Sound of Beginning: Birthright by George Abraham

There are many ways to begin a collection of poems, from startling lyricism to pointed symbolic gestures encompassing a mission statement. George Abraham begins Birthright without any such gesture,...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: David Biespiel

Poet, critic, and memoirist David Biespiel and I both grew up in Meyerland, the main Jewish enclave in Houston. (Yes, there are Jews in Texas, even though both of us left.) We lived in low-slung brick...

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Finding Home in a Cult’s Aftermath: Talking with Ronit Plank

Like many others, I was entranced by the premiere of Wild Wild Country, the hit Netflix docuseries that follows the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from India to rural Oregon and the cultural battle...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Aruni Kashyap

I bought Aruni Kashyap’s collection There Is No Good Time for Bad News because the title put words to the experience of living through 2020. The near-constant state of anxiety, of living in the...

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