Chelsea London Lloyd
How TikTok brought me closer to a grieving child.
On Grief, Pandemics, and TikTok
Author: Guest Contributor
This Sacred Time of Year is a Birthing Story
Guest Contributor
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.
An Unetaneh Tokef for Troubled Times
Ariela Rutbeck-Goldman
Who by criminalization of miscarriage, who by acts of intimate partner violence.
When Rabbis Abuse: A Q&A With Elana Sztokman
Janice Weizman
“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.”
Does “Woman of Valor” Still Have Value?
Leah Grisham
It’s hard for me to ignore the similarities between oppressive Victorian ideals of femininity and the version of womanhood praised in the Eshet Chayil.
“Dobbs” is Devastating to the IVF Community
Shoshana Gibbor
The repeal of Roe v. Wade allows states to grant full human rights to fertilized eggs, like the ones that have been collected from my body by my doctors.
My Shmita Year
Sima Gerber
“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
Cara Michelle Silverberg
A Re-Reading of the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Fiction: Vocabulary for Fruit
Maya Afilalo
“I wanted to tell her about the look on my father’s face when I refused to accompany him to the Kol Nidre service…”
The Burden of Pregnancy
Shira M. Zemel
Two of my pregnancies ended in miscarriage, and the other two resulted in the greatest joys of my life. But all four were a burden — emotionally and physically, personally and professionally.