Hair and Desire

A special section on hair: wigs, upsherin, self-definition, minorities, Jewish law, and what it means to have Jewish hair. A rediscovery of two matriarchs, Zilpha and Bilha.

Four Matriarchs? Make that Six

by Rabbi Susan Schnur

The Shaytl & Susan B. Anthony

by Irene Glassgold

Women Lead Cuban Jews

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