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    (Kate Dreyer/Flickr)
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    A Nose Dive for Nose Jobs

    As standards of beauty shift, rhinoplasty—once a rite of passage for Jewish teens—declines in popularity

    byRita Rubin
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    Nose-trodamus

    One hundred years ago, a plot was hatched.

    byDan Klein
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    (Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine)
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    Nobody Likes You When You’re 23

    Comment of the Week

    byMarc Tracy
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    (Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine)
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    Our Bodies, Ourselves

    Comment of the week

    byMarc Tracy
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    (Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine)
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    Paint My Face

    Comment of the week

    byMarc Tracy
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    (Courtesy Marjorie Ingall)
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    Butt of the Joke

    Why do my kids laugh at poop?

    byMarjorie Ingall
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    Jewish Body Week

    All the articles from our weeklong series

    byTablet Magazine
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    (NYMag.com)
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    To Bris or Not to Bris

    ‘New York’ mag considers the question, comprehensively

    byHadara Graubart
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    New books on bodies visible and invisible

    byJosh Lambert
  • William Blake, ‘Teach These Souls to Fly’
    William Blake, ‘Teach These Souls to Fly’
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    Braiding Flesh and Spirit

    Kicking off a weeklong examination of the Jewish body

    byJonathan Rosen
  • Joel Friedman as Holocaust survivor Milton Saltzman and Louisa Flaningam as Holocaust scholar Esther Feinman in a scene from The Soap Myth(Jason Weston)
    Joel Friedman as Holocaust survivor Milton Saltzman and Louisa Flaningam as Holocaust scholar Esther Feinman in a scene from The Soap Myth(Jason Weston)
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    False Witness

    A play examines the notion that Nazis made soap from Jewish flesh

    byAri M. Brostoff
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    Sundown: Ye Olde Jewish Shoppes

    The wondrous Dead Sea, more from Roya, and love for the Body

    byHadara Graubart
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    Feet of Clay

    Golem, welcome to Williamsburg

    byGod & Co.
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    The Jewish Body

    A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.

    byUnknown Author
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    Body Politic

    What makes a body Jewish?

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