Sophia Marie Unterman
By Sophia Marie Unterman
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Culture 8 Things You’ll Need To Know If You’re a Jew Living in Exile
I grew up in Kansas, with parents from Oklahoma, and then went to college in Louisiana before moving to New York, the mystical land my Grandpa Herb talked about. He grew up in Brooklyn, where everyone was Jewish, he told me as I colored my Rudolph Christmas ornament for class. During the time I lived…
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Culture Journey to a Land Where Jews Are Wax and Anti-Semitism Is Kitsch
Upon entering the restaurant that the charming concierge at the Hotel Grand Lodz had recommended, we froze. Not that I had imagined a deli or South Williamsburg hole-in-the-wall I always wonder if I have the right to wander into, but I was thoroughly unprepared for what awaited us. Outside, the font on the sign over…
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Culture Why Was This Humble Jewish Shoemaker Asked To Join the Ku Klux Klan?
A midsummer rainstorm shot streaks of lightning over the tobacco fields. It had been tough to find a place to pull over to eat our lunch on the shoulderless state highway, so we idled in the parking lot behind a plantation house. I was driving with my family back to Raleigh, North Carolina, from the…
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Culture My Search for the ‘Male Shiksa’
I told him it was a double mitzvah to screw on Shabbat. SportsCenter on mute, music theory textbooks open in our laps. His pencil suspended above the fill-in-the-scale exercise. The Oklahoma goy and his new, exotic Jewish girlfriend. I relished the role. “What’s a mitzvah?” he asked. “A good deed.” There are 613 them, I…
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Culture Actually, Toto, We Are Still In Kansas
The morning of the annual Old Mission Hills Fourth of July Party, I warned Adharsh, my boyfriend at the time who was visiting from New Orleans, about what to expect.” “We’re kind of going to stick out,” I said. “My family, I mean. We always do.” “Speak for yourself,” he said, grinning. “I came prepared.”…
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