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Jennifer Bleyer


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Do It Yourself

From crocheting a kippah to making your own shofar, The Jewish Catalog explains it all
By Jennifer Bleyer | 12:28 PM Sep 18, 2007

It is a testament to the pervasiveness of 1960s youth culture that even people as completely square as my parents got a little hip to it.
Here were a couple of good Jewish kids who met during college in Boston, got married at 21, and started raising a family not long after that in suburban Chicago. ...

Among the Holy Schleppers

The long, strange trip of the woman behind Heeb
By Jennifer Bleyer | 10:53 AM Sep 16, 2005

I was 16 and tripping on acid at a Grateful Dead show in Ohio, my brain thoroughly blown into another dimension, when a bearded face swirled in front of me, a man who wore his tzitzit under his tie-dye. His smile was gentle and his eyes intent. “Sister, if you ever go to New York ...