Our Reproductive Selves

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Meet a powerful repro-rights foremother; a ritual for when the abortion on the table is your own; the unspoken grief of I.V.F.; introducing Generation Midwife, and more.

Our Reproductive Selves

The articles in this special section:

Abortion Foremother

by Merle Hoffman

Ambivalence: When the Abortion on the Table Is Your Own

by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur

A Ritual for Abortion

by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur

Generation I.V.F.

by Miriam Zoll

Making a Baby in the Lab: 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me

Don’t Say “VAGINA”

By Sarah Erdreich

The 10 Most Ridiculous New Anti-Abortion Laws (the 11th probably coming to your neighborhood soon)

Generation Midwife

Jessica Angelson talks to Susan Schnur

Fall 2013

Our reproductive selves: a powerful foremother; a ritual for abortion; I.V.F. grief; Generation Midwife, and more. Women architects on “relational creativity.” And who are those women fueling all the game-changing Jewish energy in Los Angeles?

Ambivalence: When the Abortion on the Table Is Your Own

by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur

Why L.A.? Why Women? And Why Now?

by Liz Safirstein Leshin

Revising Our Ideas about Collective Inspiration

by Esther Sperber

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