A Comedy Writer Looks Back on Her 1960s Childhood
An excerpt from "We Saw Scenery," Merrill Markoe's hilarious and poignant graphic memoir.
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Orthodox Mob Gangs Up on Chasidic Reporter
Jacob Kornbluh was cornered during protests over Covid restrictions and threatened as a traitor to his community.
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“Hey, she’s stealing men’s mitzvot!” This was my eight year old son’s reaction to seeing the photo (pictured below) of a woman raising the open Torah scroll for hagba’ah (JOFA Journal Fall 2013). While he had certainly never seen a woman do hagba’ah before, I was taken aback by his set ideas of where […]