Our Violent Children

by Ilana Kramer

Five brave Jewish mothers, juggling feelings of love and fear, tell how they’ve survived raising sons who are full of rage. Beyond shunning and judging, what can the community really do to help the families and the boys? And what emotions are we allowed to express as Jews? Rabbi Simkha Weintraub has some suggestions.

• Why Does Expressing Violence Feel So Alien to Jews? by Rabbi Simkha Weintraub

Reading George Eliot in Jerusalem

by Ilana Blumberg

From just one clue, a fan of the nineteenth-century feminist novelist finds herself inexplicably linked to two Jewish feminist leaders, Alice Shalvi and Avivah Zornberg.

Period Envy

by Sheila Solomon Shotwell

Who knew that pre-adolescent girls could be so fascinated by all the paraphernalia of periods yet to come? Shotwell revisits her childhood fascination with all things Tampax.

Truth or Dare

by Jessica Berger Gross

A very modern take on kibbutz sex. In this memoir, a 21-year-old American volunteer steps out of character — only to discover that an adventurous quartet might suit her after all. 

Her Jewish Roots Grow in Prison Soil

by Rabbi Laurie Rice

Rabbi Laurie Rice befriends a Jewish woman who is behind bars. They talk about being invisible to other Jews, Judaism in jail, and the hidden stories we on the outside never hear.

Plotless

by Lori Wald Compton

As a young widow, Compton purchased a double cemetery plot, one for her recently deceased spouse, one for her future self. Then she fell in love again. Here, her grave anxieties.

All That Remains of Etta

fiction by Erica W. Jamieson

First Sign of Spring in NYC

by Liana Finck

This graphic novelist draws on the streets of New York.

What if Miriam Had Climbed Up the Mountain and Left Moses Waiting With the Multitudes?

poetry by Shana Ritter

The Powerful Debut of Two New Israeli Legislators

by Deborah Lipstadt

Ruth Calderon in her Knesset debut did not explicitly discuss the platform of her party. Instead, she did something unprecedented. She, a secular educator, and a woman, explicated a passage of Talmud. And Merav Michaeli, proudly pronouncing herself  “a feminist,” puts inclusivity on the Knesset‘s docket.