A.J. Campbell
By A.J. Campbell
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Community My daughter, the voter
As Jewish mothers, we brag about our kids all the time. My son the doctor, his brother the lawyer, my daughter the scientist who is going to cure cancer. But something happened yesterday that made me the proudest kind of Jewish mom, my kid got her voter registration card. Long ago in the last century,…
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Community ‘What religion was my cousin? What rituals could we all share?’
My cousin was born a Jew, accepted Christ, and died an atheist in a COVID ward in a Florida hospital. He was secretly laid to rest a week later, his Christian wife spreading his ashes on the grave of our observant Jewish grandmother in a private, unauthorized graveside funeral. Before the funeral, there were discussions…
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Food ‘What does a newly minted lactose avoider do on the milkiest of Jewish holidays?’
'No, really, I don’t want any cheesecake'
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Life Queer Jewish Women Need to Create Their Own Spaces
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman In a recent piece on The Sisterhood, J.E. Reich writes that there is a lack of safe spaces for queer Jewish women particularly in New York City. She attributes this to silence of the mainstream community to create space for us. I disagree with the idea that we need Jewish organizations to open the door to…
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