Chanan Tigay
By Chanan Tigay
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News Transgender Jews Seek Place at Table
Shortly before Emily Aviva Kapor began the transition from male to female, she sat down to discuss the process with her mother. “I told her I was going on hormones, and she said the most Jewish thing to me,” 27-year-old Kapor recalled. “She said, ‘Well, at least you’re not getting a tattoo.’” It’s a funny…
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News Inside Noah’s Ark
Two by two they’ve come, birds and beasts and lizards of every imaginable kind, to board the gigantic wooden ark now docked inside Los Angeles’s Skirball Cultural Center. There’s the rooster wrought of shiny red cowboy boots; the kiwi crafted from a boxing glove; the alligator melded from a car tire and a violin case,…
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Culture Arrested Development?
Philip Roth’s Rude Truth: the Art of Immaturity By Ross Posnock Princeton University Press, 328 pages, $29.95. For Americans of a certain age, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was formative: It’s by now axiomatic that most will never forget where they were at the time they received word of the shooting. Similarly, though…
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