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A gay man finds a role model in the anti-heroine of the Purim story.
And Vashti Refused: A Gay Man Find a Biblical Role Model
Winter 1991-1992
Women soldiers in the Israeli army. Homecoming queen struggles to understand the
immigrant grandmother who raised her. A new father’s circumcision anxiety. Sephardic vs. Ashkenazi cooking.
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The Doctor’s Plot of 1953
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When Stalin declared that "killer doctors" were deliberately poisoning and infecting the country’s leaders, prominent physicians, mostly Jewish, were rounded up and murdered or exiled. Natalya Rapaport, now a scientist herself, is the daughter of the only survivor of the notorious "doctors’ plot." Here she describes her excruciating ordeal as a 14-year-old who waits for her other parent to disappear, too.
“Santa Kloz Hot Gekhalesht”
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An extraordinary piece of agitprop puppet theater by Jenny Romaine adapted from a 1930's, Yiddish Marxist primer. Romaine's toy theater of Terror As Usual will mesmerize you.
Circumcision
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Bris anxiety? All the feelings you’ve ever had against this practice will surface again as this father describes his struggles over whether or not to circumcise a first-born son.
Homecoming Queen
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Waving stupidly from the back of a flatbed truck at half-time leads a 1950s co-ed to a new understanding of the immigrant grandmother who raised her.
His Army Her Army
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What happens to women’s worldview when their bosses have more power and less education than they do? A Tel Aviv journalist describes a military system that fosters sexual harassment by men, depression in women, and doomed, ingenue/hero marriages for both.
