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Anti-Semitism and Ivanka

…long as “Jewish woman” lands differently on our ears than “Jew,” we will allow anti-Semitic sentiment and action to be perpetuated, unacknowledged, against women. AVIGAYIL HALPERN on the Lilith Blog….

End the Anecdotes

…info@lilith.org. Avigayil Halpern is a rising junior at Yale. Follow her on Twitter at @avigayiln. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not…

Podcasts for Comfort, Education, Distraction

…about the podcasts they’ve been listening to — for comfort, for sanity,  for enlightenment, and for laughs. Here’s what they said.  Rav Avigayil Halpern Author of the Substack Approaching “As…

My Daughter, The Soldier

Photo courtesy of the author, Avigayil Sztokman is third from the right. It was a two-hour drive, mostly through endless desert on all sides, to get to my daughter’s army…

Fighting Fascism

…Ian Halpern is a financial reporter and freelance writer living in Washington, D.C. The Road After Spain by Ian Halpern In the years after the war, the women who volunteered…

Thirsting

…This woman has no cake. She’s very tall, very straight and very blonde. In the dream, the woman has a Jewish name, Selma Halpern, but she doesn’t look like any…

Letters

…her a note to tell her so. The bigger surprise was in the article on women in the Spanish Civil War, “Fighting Fascism,” by Ian Halpern [Spring 1999]. He quotes…

Esther in a New World

…Stuart W. Halpern (Maggid, $29.95), an array of scholars, rabbis and educators consider the various roles that Esther — and the scroll in which she appears — have played throughout…