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  • Ralph Lauren receives applause from models and guests after the showing of his Fall 1997 Collection New York, April 9, 1997.
    Ralph Lauren receives applause from models and guests after the showing of his Fall 1997 Collection New York, April 9, 1997.
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    Fashion Genius

    Ralph Lauren may be stepping down as CEO, but his polo shirts showed us how to play the part of a life well-lived, with money well-spent

    byMark Oppenheimer
  • Whitney Houston, 1987.
    Whitney Houston, 1987.
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    And I

    Whitney Houston’s music played at bar mitzvahs across America in the 1990s—the theme songs of a forgotten adolescence

    byRachel Shukert
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    (Collage Tablet Magazine; original photo Lasse Kristensen/Shutterstock; background Library of Congress.)
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    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

    byDaniel Itzkovitz
  • Eryn Loeb and her family at her bat mitzvah, May 1995.(Courtesy Eryn Loeb)
    Eryn Loeb and her family at her bat mitzvah, May 1995.(Courtesy Eryn Loeb)
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    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

    byEryn Loeb
  • Judy Blume and her son Lawrence Blume(Getty Images)
    Judy Blume and her son Lawrence Blume(Getty Images)
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    Judy Blume: Still Awesome

    And still totally getting you

    byStephanie Butnick
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    Jewish Girls Not Immune to Self-Destructive Behaviors

    Reveals a new survey

    byHadara Graubart
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    Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon

    The frenetic, hormonally charged days before a bat mitzvah

    byVanessa Davis
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    Return of the Nonexistent

    Can a son’s failure to have a bar mitzvah be a mitzvah?

    byMarco Roth
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    Geek Love

    Todd Solondz’s latest bestiary of the dispossessed

    bySara Ivry
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