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Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian...

Samira Mehta

Protestant ideas shaped Americans’ support for birth control – and the Supreme Court ruling protecting a husband and wife’s right to contraception

Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, set the precedent for several other landmark cases about sex and privacy.

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Samira Mehta

From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality

Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But...

Samira Mehta

In ‘Nobody Wants This,’ rom-com gets century-old tropes with a new twist – the cute rabbi

Twenty years ago, the television show “The O.C.” invented the word “Chrismukkah.” Main character Seth Cohen, played by Adam Brody, described his...

Samira Mehta