Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reported that children’s clothing purveyor, Gymboree, was selling a dress with a Jewish star patch on its online site. The patch, which according to the product description was meant to depict a snowflake, has six points which is eerily similar to the Jewish star. The blue-and-white plaid dress is vaguely reminiscent…
When I was four years old, my family immigrated to America from the USSR. I was born in Kaunas, Lithuania to Jewish parents who filled my childhood with vivid stories of horrendous anti-Semitism and raised me to be an unapologetic Zionist. To me, Judaism went hand in hand with a love and respect for the…
After a customer at a Holt Renfrew boutique in Canada posted on social media about a dress with a star patch that looked disturbingly similar to the Magen David Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi regime, Miu Miu has decided to remove the offending garments from stores. According to an email statement from…
A photo of a Miu Miu plaid dress with a yellow star appliqué seen in the window of Canadian luxury retailer Holt Renfrew circulated on social media over the weekend, and people are outraged. Comments on a closed Facebook forum ranged from, “They spelled Jew wrong,” to “Shame on them!” Some observed that the star…
Just as the Berlin Wall was falling, something was Jewish happening at the Bruichladdich distillery on Scotland’s Isle of Islay. First of all, they were releasing the “Bruichladdich Scotch Islay Single Malt Carmel Kosher Wine Finish 1989” — which, by all accounts was a fine (if now rare) whisky. It was kosher in the way…
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. I came out to myself, and my wider community, during my sophomore year of college. Hillel was the first organization I was involved in on campus, and before I ever entered queer spaces, I came out at my Hillel. The reactions made me reflect on…
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