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  • Wearing your natural curls is an act of Jewish resistance

    Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield-Maital Friedman|Jan 24, 2020

    NEW YORK (JTA)—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 particular Jewish appearance in an attempt to “otherize” and oppress Jews. An all too personal reminder of this demonization occurred this past summer when we received notification that Maital was among a slew of Jewish professionals, mostly women, pictured on a white nationalist, anti-Semitic website mocking how Jews look... Full story