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Roni Masel pro­pos­es a ​“failed watch­ing” of Net­flix’s new series Unortho­dox that side­steps ques­tions of authen­tic­i­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion and instead ​“gen­er­ates what we could call queer plea­sure or OTD pleasure.”

Jun 29, 2020

Posters like this one for spe­cial events, grad­u­a­tions, sales of Hasidic gar­ments, com­put­ers, new books, videos and more are still pop­u­lar in the Hasidic neigh­bor­hoods of Brook­lyn. How­ev­er, in recent years the inter­net has changed the business.

Jan 24, 2020

Zion­ism sought to alter for­ev­er the image of the Jew­ish male. Avi Blitz looks at what hap­pened, and how Yid­dish fits in. 

Feb 19, 2019