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Rites of Passage: the facts of life.

So.  Ahem.  We have had… the conversation. A couple of weeks ago, at our favourite used book store in Tel Aviv (Halper’s), Naomi Rivka picked up a copy of Judy Blume’s classic, Are You there God?  It’s Me, Margaret .  This is actually the cover – I think it’s a very early edition. At first, reading the back-cover blurb, I couldn’t figure out what was more disturbing about the book – its famous mention of menstruation (many girls’ first) or its detailed description of Margaret’s complicated religious situation.