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Why Feminism is a Model for Jewish Men Now

guest editor Sarah Blustain

Guest editor Sarah Blustain spotlights men who are incubating some pretty radical thoughts on gender and Judaism: Rabbis Steven Greenberg and Jeremy Kalmanofsky and writers Jay Michaelson and Paul Zakrzewski, Melanie Weiss’s shorthistory of the “boy crisis,” and Sally Gottesman on how to pull boys back to Judaism.

• Missing... by Melanie Weiss
• Gender After Feminism by Rabbi Steve Greenberg
• Bottoming for God by Jay Michaelson
• David The Father by Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofky
• Exile From Guyville: A Reflection by Paul Zakrzewski

Celebrating

by Elizabeth S. Bennett

Look again at how we’re marking the passages in our lives, from publishing a new book to hilarious seder homework, from wedding seriousness to birthday frolicking. Not to get all Martha Stewart on you, but this is definitely the moment to do things differently.

“The Tighter I Held On, the Better He Wrote”

Bel Kaufman

The author of Up the Down Staircase captures her very special grandfather on the 150th anniversary of his birth; he was that entrancing weaver of Yiddish tales, Sholom Aleichem, whose stories about daughters and parents became “Fiddler of the Roof.”