by Riv-Ellen Prell

…And An Anthropologist Says…

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One of the things that strikes me powerfully about these two rituals — and these rituals are deeply moving to me — is how different they are from rituals that were created in the 1970′s and 1980s. Then, when we chose to “own” rituals by creating versions that experimented with our own voices in the tradition, we tended to focus on Shabbat, on weddings and on births.

Into the Future with the Rituals From Our Past

The articles in this special section:

The New Improved Jewish Divorce: Hers/His

by Vicki Hollander

A Midwife’s Kaddish

by Diane Solomon

…And An Anthropologist Says…

by Riv-Ellen Prell

Summer 1990/5750

The anti-Semitism behind anti-abortion rhetoric. Chilean poet Marjorie Agosin on the evils Latin American Jewish women face. New rituals for divorce, miscarriage and more.

Beyond Belly Joy: Weddings For The Socially Responsible

by Shoshana Jedwab

Into the Future with the Rituals From Our Past

by Susan Schnur

Marjorie Agosin: A Woman, A Jew and A Chilean

by Susan Schnur

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

…And An Anthropologist Says…

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