So Many Rules, So Little Protection

by Hella Winston

The author examines communities where women and men must walk on separate sides of the street, where long aprons for maids are required, and where underground struggles over allegations of abuse are causing explosive turmoil.

Jimmy Swaggart Teaches Me Faith September 24, 2004

poetry by Miller Oberman

Taking The Ritual Laugh

by Rebecca Stone

Generations of educated religious women, who love to live at the edge of tradition.

Losing a Child

by Rabbi Susan Schnur

The trauma of a child's death is the unwelcome catalyst for a worldwide effort for safer roads, advocacy for children's cancer drugs and grants for young progressives.

• Believing in young Jews who want to change the world an interview with Ruth Schulman
• Creating a Career in Children's Cancer Advocacy an interview with Susan L. Weiner
• Promising to make third-world roads safer an interview with Rochelle Sobel

Ordained

Sally Priesand, the first woman rabbi in the U.S., just retired. She and her pioneering colleagues surprise us when they dish about those early years. With an introduction by Rabbi Jackie Ellenson.

• When I was Ordained, It was Difficult to Find a Job. by Sally Priesand
• I Fear that the Epitaph on my Tombstone will Read "She was the One who Brought the Dildo to Reines' Class." by Myra Soifer
• When I Arrived, I had No Place to Stay, for No One at the Jerusalem School would Co-sign a Paper Needed for a Pre-rental Agreement. by Helene Ferris
• I Received the Article from My Mother, Who Sent it to me in Jerusalem, Where I was Studying at Hebrew University during my Junior year in College. by Mindy Avra Portnoy
• More than Thirty Years Ago, When People Heard that her Daughter was a Rabbinic Student, They would Say to My Mother, "She's going to be a woman rabbi??" by Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
• We Were all Very Young, Most of us Fresh Out of College. by Ellen Jay Lewis
• The Presence of Women in the Rabbinate Challenged People to Think about God in a Different Way. by Laura Gelle

Yiddish Divas Take the Stage

by Joan Roth

A photo essay spotlighting stars of the Yiddish stage, who in their 80s and 90s still woo and wow audiences.