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Spring 2018
#MeToo — what’s got to change in Jewish organizations? A girl meets the half-siblings who share her sperm donor. When a Skokie teenager had her big crush on Jesus. Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda and Niger. Paradoxical adoration-plus-anti-Semitism in paintings and novels of Jewish women. What can you throw out after a dear one dies?
Subscriber Exclusive Repairing the World by Repairing Women’s Bodies in Rwanda and Niger
by Eleanor J. Bader
A teacher visiting Niger learned by chance about a shameful and widespread gynecological affliction—and took it upon herself to improve things.
Subscriber Exclusive 1992: Jesus for Jews
by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein
She’s a teenager in Skokie, Illinois, with a crush—on Jesus Christ, the superstar.
Subscriber Exclusive Convergence
by Amy Chernikowski
When reverberations of sexual trauma can carry through to the next generation.
Subscriber Exclusive The Lives of Sarah
poem by Leah Schwartz
The Miscreants
fiction by Tamar Ben-Ozer
"Mrs. Z. used to be more religious, back when her family was still around, but now she says offhandedly that observance is a tribal practice, and is not easily maintained on one’s own."
#MeToo IN THE JEWISH WORLD
In the wake of Harvey Weinstein, we’ve shifted how we talk about—and hold perpetrators accountable for—sexual assault. Three different angles on why and how.
- What Sexual Misconduct Costs a Community by Susan Weidman Schneider
- My Summer in Hollywood by Amy I. Rozen
- #MeToo in High School by Sarah Seltzer
- Ditching “Boys Will Be Boys” by Julie Sissman
- Women Who Are Rabbis Experience Their Own Brand of Harassment by Chanel Dubofsky
- Clues to Making Change by C.D.
The Book of Disaster
by Laura Esther Wolfson
From For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors:
"Everything began in Lithuania, of course. But where to begin in Lithuania?"
Subscriber Exclusive La Belle Juive
by Yaëlle Azagury
How does the 19th century's exotification of Jewish women shape the stereotypes we know?
Subscriber Exclusive Donor Sperm: The Sequel
by Sasha Hochman
A Jewish teen sets out to find the half-siblings who share her sperm donor. What happens next.
Subscriber Exclusive Silences Between Mothers & Daughters
by Nan Fink Gefen
Probing the under-examined—and very unwelcome—rift between some mothers and their adult daughters.
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Subscriber Exclusive The Accidental Archivist
by Spencer Merolla
Never mind paring down; our objects carry deep meaning. "Death turns everything into an heirloom."
A Prayer for RBG’s Long Life —and Our Pursuit of Justice
Jewish Lesbian Feminist Goes Undercover to Report on the Alt-Right
Is Midge Maisel a Bad Mom?
You’ve Come a Long Way, Sister: 20 Years After Carlebach Allegations, His Daughter Hears #MeToo
On The Film Festival Circuit
Thinking Outside the Box
Barbie Can Do It!
“We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This.”
Stop Telling Me I Can’t Sing Because of Men
“Who here would be willing to house people?”
“If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?”