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Pam Crow and Robert A. Lowe
in owning an abusive biblical text
Two friends round up the biblical Hannahs and Elis in their own lives.
Every year in synagogue, we hear the story of Hannah, a childless woman who was taunted by her husband’s other wife, Peninah, for being infertile. Like most of the stories in Hebrew Scriptures, the narrative is extravagantly spare, and the spareness allows the readers to connect the dots, to align circumstances in one’s own life to texts that have been handed down through millennia.
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.