Activist, Author, and Visionary Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz, 1945-2018

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“What do I mean by home? Not the nation state; not religious worship; not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred. I mean a commitment to what is and is not mine; to the strangeness of others, to my strangeness to others; to common threads twisted with surprise.”

From her book The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, 2007. Quoted by Maya Salam, The New York Times, August, 13, 2018.

Tags: In memoriam, Jews of Color, Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

“I Wasn’t the Only One.”

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Writing Motherhood in an Age of Anxiety

Sarah Seltzer

Arizona’s Jewish Latinx Candidate Shakes Things Up

by Joan Roth with Susan Weidman Schneider

Fall 2020

Did Alzheimers Turn My Husband into an Anti-Semite? • Parenting in the Pandemic • Objects and Their Hidden Lives • Forgiveness: When is it Possible?

Summer 2020

Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives

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