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Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield is Executive Vice President at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

Three curly-haired Jews. (JTA/Getty Images)
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Our natural curly hair isn’t ugly or ‘unprofessional.’ It’s who we are.

Rachel Jacoby RosenfieldMaital Friedman by Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield, Maital Friedman and JTA January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

For centuries, anti-Semites have fetishized Jewish appearance. Using tedious racist tropes — be it smell, hooked noses, curly hair or traditional garb — anti-Semites label Jews as grotesque and have constructed a […]

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