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Karen E H Skinazi

Karen E H Skinazi

Dr Karen Skinazi is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol. Her most recent book is Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2018)

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I feel blessed for all the thoughts which poured in after sharing my cancer news

Thoughts and prayers poured into my inbox when I shared I had breast cancer - and they make me feel very blessed

By Karen E H Skinazi

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I feel blessed for all the thoughts which poured in after sharing my cancer news

Cancer or not, I will certainly be at my boy's weddings

Cancer or not, I will certainly be at my boy's weddings

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'My dad was a feminist without realising it'

'My dad was a feminist without realising it'

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A day of chaos in Mumbai

A day of chaos in Mumbai

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The Unorthodox lady doth reveal too much

Julia Haart’s eyecatching decolletage suggests she is still trying to prove she’s not religious

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Shalom, sensei — Yiddish Karate Kid

Cobra Kai has been created, like so many other streaming series in the last five years, to allow middle-aged parents to indulge in 1980s nostalgia with their teenage offspring

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Karen E H Skinazi picks her favourite screen depictions of the High Holy Days

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Help! The evil weevils have taken over my house!

Karen Skinazi was having a great summer. Then an ominous text arrived from her cleaner

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September 22, 2022 13:15

Help! The evil weevils have taken over my house!

A Jewish pizza from Rome? I need a slice of that

On a study tour of Rome, Karen Skinazi discovers a delicacy from a bakery in the ghetto

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Finally Jasper gets his barmitzvah party - at fifteen

Karen Skinazi sent out ‘save the dates’ for her son's big day three years running

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July 21, 2022 11:59

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The Charedi feminist icon who seems to be defending a rapist

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Leaving Marseille made me sad

When we decided to spend Pesach there, we hadn't realised quite how Jewish it is

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May 9, 2022 13:17

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Instead of planning a Seder, I planned an iftar

Last week, four women - two Jewish, two Muslim –inspired by the war in Ukraine, decided to host a charity dinner. It took the form of an iftar. Here they talk about their experience.

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April 20, 2022 13:12

Instead of planning a Seder, I planned an iftar

Writing is a solitary endeavour - but the Emerging Writers’ Programme is like filling your room with friends

When I sent in my application, I thought: I am an academic. My destiny is to write obscure articles that have a readership of 10, max.

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April 6, 2022 10:54

Top view of the workspace and office of a female translator working on a document and checking some references

Women of Valor: The Israeli ‘Suffragettes’ of the Twenty-first Century

Some Charedi women believe that they are completing the work of the original suffragettes

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March 8, 2022 12:58

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The ambiguous Jews of The Morning Show

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