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Marty Ross-Dolen
down the crooked path to a daughter’s bat mitzvah
Divorce cleaves a girl’s interfaith family in two. What happens when
the author vows to raise religiously unconfused children.
My daughter’s body is enveloped by the tallis — woven silk threads of pale pink and white and green that we had commissioned for her to wear on this day. Underneath, she wears a cropped cardigan over a wisp of a dress — peach-dotted fabric that drops to her knees over a crinoline skirt.
Victorious Jewish Moments
The articles in this special section:
in a corner of the Hebrew school classroom
Sari M. Boren
In fifth grade, resisting a bad lesson plan: is she Jewish or is she American?
down the crooked path to a daughter’s bat mitzvah
Marty Ross-Dolen
Divorce cleaves a girl’s interfaith family in two. What happens when
the author vows to raise religiously unconfused children.
in a congregation’s response to attempted murder
Monique Faison Ross
An abusive husband turns violent, and his victim discovers the potency of community.
in owning an abusive biblical text
Pam Crow and Robert A. Lowe
Two friends round up the biblical Hannahs and Elis in their own lives.
at a hard-won seder
Susan Moldaw
Encountering a Holocaust survivor over grapes in the grocery store, Moldaw overcomes her own Passovers from hell.