Tara Bognar
Segregating a certain class of people to the back of the bus has an intense resonance for anyone raised on stories of the Black civil rights struggle, Rosa Parks, and… Read more »
Of Buses and Borough Park
Author: Tara Bognar
Tara Bognar is a new lawyer in Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of McGill University, Drisha Institute, Yeshivat Hadar, and the Conservative Yeshiva, she is interested in Jewish and secular law, especially in relation to women's lives and experiences, LGBT issues, and nontraditional families. Read more at TaraBognar.com.
Mediterranean Family Size Religious Israeli Jewish Women Win (Lose?)
Tara Bognar
Women and Demography in the Mediterranean States (2009), by Ariela Keysar, compiles and analyzes demographic data from Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Italy, Greece, Spain, and France.
Keeping Jewish Boys Involved
Tara Bognar
Monday night, Moving Traditions, the organization that gave us the “Rosh Hodesh – It’s a Girl thing” program, unveiled a new program geared at teenage Jewish boys – along with a substantive report on Jewish American boys’ participation in American Judaism.