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Monique Faison Ross
in a congregation’s response to attempted murder
An abusive husband turns violent, and his victim discovers the potency of community.
More than a decade ago, I was harassed and stalked for three months by my estranged husband. We had been in and out of court, with the judge issuing injunctions for protection. During those months — as if by some divine miracle — my eldest daughter celebrated her bat mitzvah.
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.