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Jessica Annabelle
An Unorthodox Coming Out Story

Ari Averbach
Keeping Shabbat
Not Special
The Set Up
Reverse Celebrity Crush
Clear

Benjamin Bakhshi
New Country, Old Home

Vicky Boykis
Hebrussia

Margaret Boyle
Judaism en Espanol

Ruth Bregman
To Mom With Love

Katherine Bruce
Kobe, Japan

Masha Chernyak
Atlas Mooched

Bennie Cohen
Matzah Ballers
Tailgate Shabbat

Emily Comisar
The Best Year
Falling for Funny Guys
Dating Jewish Men
Why I Eat the Other White Meat
Kalamazoo, MI (616)
New Years Resolutions

Rachel Druck
Shaken Up

Meredith Druss
Half-and-Half
Nice Jewish Girl No More
There’s a New Jew in Town

Lauren E.
Give Me Crabs on My Wedding Day

Ian Epstein
The Importance of Lights in Winter

Natasha Feldman
A Bat Mitzvah in Lake Oswego, OR (503)

Jonathan Fish
The Third Spoke

Violet Flemenbaum
La Mishpacha

Josh Furman
Gay Travel Hot Spot

Lauren Gelnick
Friday Night in Israel

Lucy Gillespie
Bad Mitzvah
Tropicana Christmas

Ruvym Gilman
The Virgin Chronicles
The Language Barrier
A Coat for the Ages: Part I
A Coat for the Ages: Part II
Foreign Accent Syndrome
A Decade’s Send-Off

Natasha Gluzman
Finding Home

Briana Goldman
The Best Relationship
Judaism Through Cholent
The Jew Who Loved Christmas

Micah Gurard-Levin
Slicha, Lo Midaber Ivrit

Jake Goodman
How Being a Better Jew Helps Me Become a Better Queer Helps Me Become a Better Jew

Rebecca Halpin
An Issue of Pride

Shoshanna Howard
Bat Mitz-huh?
No Excuses

Ally Iseman
To Become an Adult
I am Aliza
My Jewish Jeanne

Ariel Joseph
Black Jew Syndrome

Arden Joy
To Fit In, In Two Worlds

Emily Kapit
Masada or Bust
Faded Memories
J.A.P. – “Jewish American Princess” or “Just Another Person”?

Daliya Karnofsky
The Journey, On Tape

Robby Kaufman
Why I Give

Lisa Keys
Oh Yes, Oh Yes, Oh YES!

Idit Klein
Coming Out (Again)

Rita Kreynin
To Brighton
The New Years Tree

Ian Lander
My Father’s Name Was Lewis Lander

Liel Leibovitz
Jerusalem Bound

Amir Levi
Middle School Fantasies

Aaron Lerman
Bet My Life

Rachie Lewis
Rebuilding

Jayson Littman
Orthodox and Gay: Now What?

Alexander Marcus
Changing Traditions

Ruby Marez
I Am Party Mix
Seduction in the Land of Israel

Jay Michaelson
Chanukah in June

Lila Miller
Kosher for Christmas

Eric Minoff
Greed is Good

Julie Naturman
Waiting for Adam Sandler

Barbara Newman
Growing Up With Chanukah in (718)

Will Newman
It Takes More Than Making Out

Adam Oded
A Happy Yom Kippur on Twitter
Jury Dude
Hebrew for Hanukkah

Emily Marx Perl
January 14

Benjamin Pinkhasik
Loose Change
The Tennis Lesson

Rita Polevoy
Do You Have the Touch?

Vanessa Prell
Song in Self

Sarah Pumroy
Labeled Goods
Jewish Identity Through Burlesque
Dating Jewish Men
From Meatpies to Meatless
St. Paul, MN (651)

Benjamin Levin Purkert
Seton Hall Jews

Eli Raber
Chatsworth, CA (818)

Michelle Rattner
100% Organic, 100% Kosher

Gabriella Reubins
The Career Choice

Mitch Rothenberg
If You Ask Me

Rafi Samuels-Schwartz
On Being Magneto
Model Genius
A Herring Restoration
Hebrew for Hanukkah

Emily Savage
It Should Have Been Grandma’s First Bat Mitzvah

Joshua Schechter
Scottsdale, AZ (480)

Tanya Schevitz
Unplugging

Danielle Selber
Why I Support Gay Rights
Hebrew Enough For Me

Isaac Shalev
Good Enough for the Jews?
Harvest to Harvest: Sukkot and Thanksgiving
Grave Recollection

Taan Shapiro
Transgender and Jewish

Danny Sharron
Be Fruitful and Multiply

Yocheved Sidof
What Comes First?

Stephanie Silberstein
‘Tis the Season

Richard Skeen
Why Gay Pride Matters to Alef
I’ve Got a Crush on Regina Spektor
Tangled Up in Bad

Stephanie Spiegel
Sitting Shiva in the Land of Oz

Dustin Stein
Inglourious Basterds

Nava Szwergold
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
My Guilt-Free Holiday
Diving into Judaism

Jake W-M
Italian-Jewish for the Holidays

Steven Weinberg
Will Work for Food

Leah Weston
Yiddish Summer

Victor Wishna
Oh Pioneers: Urban Kibbutzniks Cultivate Community in Brooklyn

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