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The Tattoo Taboo

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
April 29, 2011

“Like any overeducated Jew, I can intellectualize my compulsion with the best of them,” Dvora Meyers admits today in Tablet Magazine. But an earnest look at this week’s parasha honesty convinces her that maybe, despite the Jewish injunction, it was alright that, last year, she got a bumblebee tattoo on her leg.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.