Author: Guest Contributor

Don’t Write Off the South on Abortion

I am forever pushing back against the idea that we all should have to just accept traveling to New York for an abortion. We deserve care where we live.

This Sacred Time of Year is a Birthing Story

Rosh Hashanah is a holiday about judgment, about fear and fate. But it’s also a holiday about fertility and creating life. Those ideas have been here all along. 

When Rabbis Abuse: A Q&A With Elana Sztokman

“For so many of us, feminism is about our physical experiences. We are engaged in this work out of a response to something that happened to us viscerally.”

My Shmita Year

“That’s why, once every seven years in fact, this year, the one we started yesterday — the Torah demands that both we and the land take a Sabbatical. In Hebrew,… Read more »

Blood and Boundaries

A Re-Reading of the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora for Survivors of Sexual Violence