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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, by Elissa Stein, offers a history of Jewish views, and some new perspectives.

Period Positivity

The articles in this special section:

Like Toilet Paper, Free Tampons in Every Restroom!

Sarah Groustra

Sarah Groustra on how her high-scool journalism led to free tampons in the town's bathrooms.

Period Talk

Chanel Dubofksy

Chanel Dubofsky on period-tracking apps, unsettling performance art, a new take on mikvah, and wiping away stigma and rusty taboos.

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Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Jennifer Weiner: An Opinionated Monarch of Women’s Fiction

Child Molestation: How Lilith Reported the Story

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

The Closer You Get, The Farther You Are

Nessa Rapoport

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

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