Deaf Jewish women make themselves heard. Remembering Paula Hyman. Feminism and Judaism collide and cohabit. An immigrant daughter reflects on being green, and a greeneh.
Table of contents Get the issueMeditating on the past, future and eternal present, women open the door.
I spy on Goering as he lifts Bruegel’s “Hay Harvest” to an easel; under a blue horizon, peasants in miniature walk over wheatturning to gold. On a wooden rack, Leger’s “Woman in... Read more »
In her immigrant family, a 30-something daughter learned to love saving, salvage and celebration.
I grew up in San Diego around a lot of evangelical Christians and when I was 10 or so I was going to church a lot with my best friend.... Read more »
At 19, I started working in the Jewish community in Columbus, Ohio, and it changed my life. I just found that Jewish women were everywhere, they were the majority of... Read more »
My parents kept kosher when they first married, but then they stopped. So I grew up with two sets of dishes [meat and dairy] that were all mixed together, a... Read more »
Out there on stage, it’s impossible to separate out being a woman and being a Jew. One of my shows starts, “I meet a guy in a bar. ‘You don’t... Read more »
I’m the V.P. of the Hillel board at the university where my husband and I teach, but besides that, there isn’t much Jewish for us in this Missouri college town.... Read more »
I started U.S.Y. (the Conservative movement’s Jewish youth group) in ninth grade, and I loved it. We danced, sang, debated, did social action projects and built a community together. At... Read more »
My story begins in Washington Heights, New York, in the 1940s, where being Jewish, female and political was the air I breathed; it was what my girlfriends and I aspired... Read more »
Amy Stone tells the back story of the new museum exhibition featuring Lazarus as a Sephardic woman of letters.
Judith Plaskow, Martha Ackelsberg, Deborah Dash Moore and Rabbi David Ellenson, among others, reflect on the ways this academic and activist introduced gender into scholarship and altered how girls and women practice Judaism today.
The first thing you see when you get to your best friend’s wedding is a bridesmaid in a long lilac gown distributing bottles of water, like you’re about to run... Read more »
A passionate reminder to think at least twice about pornography, arousal and “sex work.”
At work I think it is fairly clear that I am Jewish. A curly-haired 20-something social scientist from the Semitic suburbs of New York working on a conspicuously Jewish dissertation... Read more »
I grew up attending an all-girls yeshiva — Shulamith, in Brooklyn — and I didn’t have any experience in speaking to boys, except for my four brothers and my best friend’s brothers. A boy... Read more »
When Bernice Farr shares her family’s story, her kvelling could rival the jubilation at any book club, mah jongg game or senior center full of bubbies and savtas. Farr lights... Read more »
Every expectant mother totes around her own grab-bag of fears about what might go wrong with her newborn. Prospective parents of Ashkenazi descent have the added “Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel”... Read more »
