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The Evolution of the Bar Mitzvah Dance Video
Introducing Sam Horowitz and his troupe of scantily-clad female dancers
Thirteen Signs That You May Have Attended Jewish Summer Camp in the 1980s
Still cry when you hear ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’? Remember how to Dippity-Do your hair? Take a trip down memory lane, camper.
Volunteer Service Draws Israeli Teens Before They Start Stints in Military
‘They learn to take responsibility, to be there for other people,’ says one organizer of the year-long Shin-Shin program
Learn To Love Your Jewish Body
As teenage girls wrestle with their body image, new programs look for solutions in Jewish tradition
The Devil in Sarah Stein
Thane Rosenbaum’s young-adult novel The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, takes on the Holocaust and Sept. 11 but can’t reconcile Jewish past and future
Hypnotizing Norman
Outside my cloistered yeshiva, I found a new social order and a friend who, unlike me, was trusting enough to submit to someone else’s authority
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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