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All things periods • Patriarchy, race and the Cosmos • Ecofeminists answer urgent questions • A sex therapist loses (and finds!) her orgasms in shul • The Jewish Jane Austen
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Why Climate Change Is a Jewish Feminist Issue
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At the beginning of the Jewish year, we read once again of our obligation to “till and tend” the earth (Genesis 2:15). In the first few lines of our sacred text, we read of the responsibility of hu…
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A New Set of Rituals for Abortion and Pregnancy Loss
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If rituals give us context to mark transitions and liturgy gives us the language to describe them, there is a whole set of transitions and experiences historically ignored within Jewish tradition. …
on Jan 10
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My experience of living in rural Maine while simultaneously working on an elite college campus disproves many of these stereotypes.
on Nov 15
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Make Me Afraid, and then Blame it on Me.
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Trust that while I’ve been quiet, I am untangling the knots.
on Nov 15
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We’re Giving the Guns to People to Shoot Us in the Face.
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Jews are acting like we are the ones who are being hunted when Palestinians have been utterly dehumanized, with Gaza destroyed and 40,000 dead so far.
on Nov 15
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Antisemitism is dependent on noticing the bad things that are happening in the world, and that Jews are suspected to be the shadowy puppeteers behind them.
on Nov 15
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We Can Build a World Where Hate Has No Place
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Addressing antisemitism requires us to build these bridges, to find common ground with other marginalized groups who face different forms of hatred and discrimination.
on Nov 15
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I believe that many of my critics didn’t bother to read my essay—it was enough for them to know I was Jewish, that I lived in Israel. Nothing else mattered.
on Nov 15
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Discussion Has Become Complicity.
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I am at a loss as more and more people whom I admire insist that in the face of what they consider a genocide, discussion is complicity.
on Nov 15
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A Roundup of Jewish Poetry Collections by Jewish Women
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Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
on Oct 29
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Fiction: Disillusionment on the Eve of Revolt/Birth
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Second place, Lilith 2024 Fiction Contest
on Aug 13
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A Language of Appetite & the Jewish Woman Who First Heard It
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Meet Hilde Bruch, who gave anorexia its name.
on Aug 5
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After Hysteria: How Anna O. Became Bertha Pappenheim
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In Buenos Aires there is a neglected, overgrown cemetery for Jewish pimps and prostitutes. It’s one physical trace of the “Mädchenhandel,” the “girl business”—sex trafficking, especially in the lat…
on Aug 5
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Our doctor’s voice shifted, a tone suggesting not to buy a lottery ticket that day.
on Jun 25
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The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News For Jews
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What are the anti-Semitic roots of the current anti-abortion rhetoric? We may have more to lose than our right to choose.
on Jun 25
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Wisdom from the Original Jane Collective
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Judith Arcana and Sheila Avruch recall their days in the early 1970s, helping Chicagoans who “called Jane” for abortion referrals.
on Jun 25
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Lilith magazine has revitalized the salon—an intimate gathering of subscribers to encounter new ideas, connect with old friends, and talk about the questions and issues that matter deeply to you. Y…
on May 24
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That Time I Dressed as a Mechitza… for Feminism
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So, T and I came up with a compromise. I would show up to her daughter’s Purim reading, in costume, dressed AS a mechitza, and stand on the men’s side.
on Mar 24
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How to Hide: Instructions from a Daughter of Survivors
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A daughter of Holocaust survivors gives us chilling instructions.
on Feb 3
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What Can Polyamory Teach Us About Judaism?
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Some Jews, including a rabbi or two, are looking for ways to sanction and sanctify non-monogamous commitments.
on Dec 27, 2023
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Letter from Israel: The Definition of Insanity
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Do we use our pain to unleash violence and hatred onto others? Or do we use our pain as an instrument of compassion, to learn to recognize the pain in others?
on Oct 28, 2023