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Shira Telushkin

Shira Telushkin

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This is a somewhat arbitrary list of things she has written:

Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? (The Atlantic)

The Church of Taylor Swift (the Revealer)

The Mustache Returns (The New York Times)

The Apocalyptic Visions of Wassily Kandinsky (Plough Quarterly)

African Fashion Finds New Customers, and Questions (The New York Times)

The Enduring Popularity of the Corset (The New York Times)

How Fear of Disease Fuels Worker's Rights (Teen Vogue)

Gender Neutral Emojis Get A Complicated Update (Wired)

How Catholic Fashion Took Over The Met (The Washington Post)

Susan Alexandra Shines on the Lower East Side (Hey Alma)

The Coptic Church spreads across America (The Atlantic)

Does It Matter If Jesus Was a Refugee? (Religion & Politics)

Religious LGBTQ Jews Reinvent the Jewish Wedding (The Forward)

Myanmar's Kachin Baptists Keep The Faith Far From Home (Religion & Politics)

Mormon Missionaries Reach For Facebook (The Atlantic)

Pittsburgh Jews Bury Their Dead As Martyrs (Tablet Magazine)

Karaites, The Jews Forgotten By History (Tablet Magazine)

The Ghost Flight from Cairo to Tel Aviv (Atlas Obscura)

Bookseller in Jordan runs an 'emergency room for the mind' (Atlas Obscura)

Weaving a New Tallis Out of Old Traditions (Tablet Magazine)

Shades of Silence (Plough Quarterly)

Using Downton Abbey To Explain Orthodox Judaism (Tablet Magazine)

The Mysterious Legacy of the First Female Messiah (Jstor Daily)

New Books Look to the Past Distraction Solutions (Plough Quarterly)

Essays + Opinion

The Ex I Couldn't Forgive

The Modesty of Ruth

What James Bond Can Teach Us About Faith

Jews Came To America To Escape The Darkness. For Others, America Was The Darkness.

Thou Shalt advice column archives

Bintel Brief advice column archives

Patheos Religion Behind the Scenes Series:

How low-gluten hosts get made for celiac Catholics

How colored powder gets made for Holi

How Torah scroll parchment gets made

How Easter hats gets made