The Tzimtzum of a Jewish Journal

By Lila Goldstein May 27, 2021

Acts of solitary creation through Jewish journaling practices have grown among young Jews, isolated in the pandemic.

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A Jewish Daughter Reads ‘The Jewish Daughter Diaries’

By Dani Plung April 2, 2014

I must have told my mother one too many times that she embodies the Jewish Mother stereotype. (She really does, by the way.  Ask, as one example, the ten cast and crew members of a show I worked on in high school for whom my mother provided enough food for forty people, lest anyone starve…

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Lena Dunham Gets More Awesome

By Simi Lichtman February 5, 2013

Oh, Lena Dunham. Every awkward girl out there now has a role model to pin her hopes and dreams on; every female writer can hold her up and say, “Look, she can do it. Maybe I can too.” It’s a nice fantasy. Because not only does she have a wildly successful, award-winning television show (based…

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Philip Roth Decides To Stop

By H. B. Rubin November 13, 2012

My older brother got to read Portnoy’s Complaint his Senior year of high school, and it was a big deal. I imagine that it was only allowed on the curriculum because his English teacher was one of those slick haired PHD types who didn’t really give a fuck– he just wanted to teach. It was…

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