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Larry Sultan’s Porn Stars, Mezuzahs, Migrant Workers, and Jewish Mothers
Over the course of 35 years, Larry Sultan, the late contemporary photographer, photojournalist, and teacher, turned his lens on subject matter as diverse as his parents, migrant workers, and porn...
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My next-door neighbor, Frances, cast her first ballot in 1920. She was among the approximately one million women in New York State who celebrated the suffrage movement’s monumental victory that year by...
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Essay: The Many Pleasures of Softball at Middle Age
Every Sunday morning in the summer, I play softball—even though I’m 49, and as terrible at the game as I always was. I drop the ball, I make errors; so do the other middle-aged men in our group. Why do...
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As the Jewish Community Goes Gray, Synagogues Adapt To Serve Older Congregants
The Jewish community in America is going gray—even more quickly than the rest of the country. As baby boomers hit their 50s and 60s, the United States as a whole has gotten older, but Jews have seen an...
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Beyond 120: Are We Finally Getting Older Slower?
Plato tells a story, familiar to most of us, of how tools and abilities were distributed to all the animals, fangs and claws and stingers, yet all of these gifts were gone when mankind reached the head...
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Beauty Fades
When I was about 6 years old, when my mother was drying me off after a bath, I asked her if she believed in an afterlife. It was just after she had told me that her grandparents had died at the hands...
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