Rachel Berger
Investigating a seder plate mystery.
A Mysterious Seder Plate, Different Than All Others
Author: Guest Contributor
A “Love Letter to the Smart Single Woman”
Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippman talks to Courtney Sender about her new book, “In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to me.”
The Canceled Bat Mitzvah Is a New TV Trope
Rabbi Miriam Grossman
How authentic ceremonies can transcend this modern-age cliché.
Uplifting Unnamed Women
Naima Hirsch Gelman
In the Purim story, and in American society after Dobbs.
My Weirdly Happy Abortion Story
Sally Schloss
My abortion offered me a powerful and unexpected insight into the emotional connection between my body and mind that I haven’t experienced before or since.
A Blessing for Kislev – the Coming of the Light
Blaze Ardman
A poem to dedicate this festival of lights.
Cheshvan: The Blessing of Being Nothing Special
Blaze Ardman
Your mother has birthed a dozen offspring,
Yet you alone are born as
Nothing Special.
A Jewish Author’s Obsession with Dolly Parton
Scarlett Harris
“Dolly is the only thing that this country can agree on!”
Don’t Write Off the South on Abortion
Steph Black and Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
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.
Is Abortion Access a Jewish Value?
Steph Black and Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
On fighting for abortion access before and after the fall of Roe.