There’s something wonderfully subversive about how bread-making has been the province of women for so long. For so many centuries, women’s contribution to the Shabbat table has been the food and the challahs, and men bring the dvar torah. And so using the challah to bring the Torah is a feminist, subversive act.
“I am not comparing events, I don’t believe in comparing suffering, but I do think that the Holocaust and Nakba shape the collective identity of two people. I would like people to find the space to hear about it, to be more educated,” Bloch told Lilith.
85% of U.S. Supreme Court Justices were once members of a college fraternity. The boys making the big decisions on Capitol Hill participated in a system, that even in its most “feminist” and progressive iterations, is still incredibly sexist.
