A very inclusive ritual for when a toddler daughter becomes a Jew. Lessons on losing elections from Golda Meir. An intergenerational Jewish lesbian couple talks difference. Holocaust games at Jewish summer camp–who wins? “Barbra Streisand was my rabbi.” Our new short fiction contest winners. Growing up Baptist, caught by Judaism.
Krystyna Lagowski
In her putatively Catholic household, Lagowski’s adoration of Barbra was seen as normal. Then the shocks of her parents’ divorce reveal why.
Farrell Greenwald Brenner
Differences in age and experience pale next to the differences in how each was brought up Jewish.
Susan Proctor
Steeped in an all-encompassing church life, a resonant dream shakes her to her Jesus-Loves-Me core. What happens after pulls her to Judaism.
Francine Klagsbrun
What Golda compromised when she ran for mayor of Tel Aviv—and the consequences for Israel.
Helen Epstein
Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, she hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway.
Yiddish in Mongolia: A Jewish Tibetan Pop Star
Even Reform Congregations Underpay Women
When My Hasidic Father Visited Me at College
Wedding Brain
Record-Breaking Orthodox Weightlifter
“I Didn’t Make It for Sundance”: Amanda Lipitz on Her Film “Step”
Our Radical, Activist Foremothers
Subversion, Sex, Savoy Cabbage
“I’m Burning With Rage Watching Some Assholes Pose as Good Guys”
Needlework that Interprets, Mimics and Exposes Text
A Jewish, Latina Mother Challenges Xenophobia in the U.S.
“A Species They Had Not Met Before–the Jew. Me.”
“Disobedience,” a Film About Ultra-Orthodox Forbidden Love
Marriage, a Luxury Reserved for the Privileged