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Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters. While critics and academics celebrated these characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed as chick TV. In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and su...

After a day of roly-poly fun and shenanigans, it's bedtime for maziks, the Yiddish word for pranksters or little mischief-makers, a name Jewish parents may lovingly call their rambunctious little ones"--

After a day of roly-poly fun and shenanigans, it's bedtime for maziks, the Yiddish word for pranksters or little mischief-makers, a name Jewish parents may lovingly call their rambunctious little ones"--

Drawing on the potential of both temporality and antiheroinism to invoke feminist resistance, this research suggests a correlation between televisual temporality and antiheroinism in early 2000s US television drama series, examines that correlation, and explores the feminist politics of these two narrative apparatuses"--

Directing the Heart: Weekly Mindfulness Teachings and Practices from the Torah" contains meditations and suggestions for Mindfulness practice inspired by the first five books of the Bible. For each week of the year, Rabbi Yael Levy searches out teachings from the Torah for guidance on how to love in the face of loss, to be open to joy, gratitude and beauty and to live with disappointments, sadness and pain. Using Rabbi Levy's own translations ...

For any young woman, it can be hard to follow the rules . . . especially when you're falling in love.But for Rachel, Hindy, and Leah, it's especially hard. Because as Orthodox Jews, they live by a whole different set of rules. No touching a guy - any guy! - before marriage. No dating - unless they are considering marriage - and then, only marrying a man who rates high on their parents' checklists.All Rachel's mother wants for her daughter is t...

All that Jewish Brooklyn homemaker Abby Miller wants is to get her romance novel published, and know what it is to fall in love. Only in a semiarranged marriage with a medicalresident husband who's never home and overwhelmed raising their kids, Abby's goals seem less likely than ever. On top of that, her husband David decides to move away from her mother!Abby tries to balance everyone's demands: her kids, her mother's, David's until a meltdown...

New York socialite Goldie Fischer seems to have it all: wealth, beauty, and a fiancé to die for. Until she's murdered on her wedding night by a jealous witch and instantaneously loses everything. Angry and seeking revenge, Goldie becomes a dybbukher soul possesses the body of Southern football hero Clay Harper and she refuses to join the light until the wrongs are rectified.Only Clay has issues of his own and doesn't take kindly to a petulant ...