by Jill Vexler

Letter From Paris

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The email arrived inviting me to present a paper, this past March, on American Jewish feminism at the enticingly named seminar Femmes et Judaisme dans la societe contemporaine (Women and Judaism in Contemporary Society) to be held in Paris at the Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme. This jewel of a museum was under construction the last time I was in Paris and its dynamic director, Laurence Sigal, is a close friend. Clearly, I had to go.

Summer 2004

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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

#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.

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.

Letter From Paris

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