Eryn Loeb, a contributing editor for Tablet Magazine, is a freelance writer and editor in New York.
Becoming Women
Bat mitzvahs tell us less about tradition than they do about how girls create rites for coming of age, as the new book Today I Am a Woman shows
Discomfort Food
A popular cookbook, Recipes Remembered, pairs Holocaust survival stories with survivors’ recipes, an awkward pairing of pleasure and horror
Idle Worship
In a new HBO documentary, Gloria Steinem is treated like the icon she is. But efforts to praise and eulogize her feminism don’t do the subject—or the liveliness of the movement she helped inspire—justice.
Vision and Revision
A 1967 biopic offered a look at feminist icon Shulamith Firestone before she was famous. In a 1997 remake—now on view at the Jewish Museum—things are more complicated.
Crash Course
After a lifetime of avoiding Philip Roth’s books, a reader decides to see what all the fuss is about
Hunger Pangs
Vegetarianism grew too limiting for one writer, but kashrut, at least as she interprets it, never did
Teen Shpilkes
Young-adult novelist Norma Klein taught me about sex and feminism, in a very Jewish world
Ben-Gurion
Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
