Arielle Levites
By Arielle Levites
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Life I Studied American Jewish Teens. This Ritual Predicts How They Feel About Being Jewish.
Multiple studies have demonstrated the benefit of the family dinner, especially for adolescents. Regular family dinners have been associated with teens developing healthy eating habits, lower rates of high-risk behaviors, and better mental health. But what good can just one annual family meal do for adolescent development? How would that dinner have to be different…
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Opinion What Julia Salazar’s Jewish Identity Taught Me About My Own
When I first learned about the personal biography of Julia Salazar, a candidate for New York State Senate, I felt a glimmer of recognition — and that was after reading an article in Tablet Magazine calling into question her Jewish parentage. Her family narrative sounded completely plausible to me. Like the story Salazar tells of…
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Opinion When Ashkenazi Jews Eat Kitniyot on Passover, Is It Cultural Appropriation — from Sephardim?
How do millions of Ashkenazi Jews react when, after hundreds of years, they finally get permission to eat kitniyot on Passover? We’re about to find out. Last December, the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards approved a teshuvah, a Jewish legal ruling, permitting the consumption of kitniyot on Passover. Kitniyot — foods like…
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