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Fall 2017
Powerhouse sisters fight over whether women should vote. Breaking all the rules of widowhood. How a non-Jewish wife finds her place in Jewish ritual. A lawyer for abused women unearths memories of her own. Seeing one’s body as divine. The complexities of mental illness in a Jewish family. Dad’s heroin addiction spurs a daughter’s feminism.
Subscriber Exclusive My Body, Divinely
Rishe Groner
Overweight. Anorexic. Miserable. Then the author discovers, with joy and after decades of struggle, how to love the skin she’s in.
Subscriber Exclusive A Place at the Table
Jennifer Burleigh
What shifts for this non-Jewish wife, so that she rightfully claims her ritual role.
Subscriber Exclusive A Family History of Mental Illness
Joy Peskin
Tenderness, pathology and fear bind this mother and daughter.
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Subscriber Exclusive Words That Hurt
Evelyn Becker
A lawyer devoted to rescuing women, Becker finds out what their travails trigger in her own memories.
Defiance
Karen Paul
A young widow disobeys all the rules about what not to do when you’re swimming through sorrow. And saves herself.
Subscriber Exclusive Women and the Vote
- The Paradoxes of Power: Female Edition Alice Sparberg Alexiou
- And Today...Helping Progressive Female Candidates Run for Office Eden A. Gordon
How a Father’s Addiction Formed a Jewish Feminist
Sharon Leder
Was her father’s capitulation to heroin an unlikely model for her work?
Flying While Female
Being Jewish in College: It’s More Complicated Than They Think
Singing To Keep Ladino Alive
@FlatbushGirls’s Clever Trick To Protest Blurring Women’s Faces
Why Grandmothers Are Needed
Anti-Semitism and Ivanka
A Brush-Up Against the Prison Industrial Complex
The Gendered Nature of The Intermarriage Debate
In New Study, Jewish Teens Have Most Liberated Attitudes Towards Sex
Transparent is Back!
May Their Memories Be for a Blessing
Week 16
When You Use the Passive Voice for Gender Violence
History Unveiled: Soviet Communism and American Women
A Primer on Interfaith Connections and Orthodox Feminism
Great Girl Protagonists in Books For Young Readers
Beauty as a Prison and a Path to Freedom
Mengele’s Horrific Experiments, Through the Eyes of Identical Twins
Talmud, One Page Each Fully Lived Day
On Screen: The Misogyny of “Menashe”