Helene Meyers
2016 may have been a bleak year, but it also provided us with many Jewish feminists worth celebrating.
2016 may have been a bleak year, but it also provided us with many Jewish feminists worth celebrating.
This practice of kriah, of rending garments or wearing a cut black ribbon, would signify our hearts broken from loss and would allow us to identify ourselves as fellow and sister mourners to one another.
“It’s not enough to acknowledge exclusion. Dayenu needs to be reserved for consistently engaging in good faith efforts of inclusion.”
Joyous moments that help us keep the faith that Jewish feminism can and does make a difference.
The close proximity of Jewish and Muslim holy days is a welcome counter to the close proximity of bigotry that has plagued Jews and Muslims during this past week.
The intersection of queer identity and religious identity is a danger zone for haredi homophobes. Why?
“We must be sure that their immediate mourners and communities are not standing alone.”
It’s one of those flawed films that gets under your skin in good and stimulating ways.
I’m writing this to honor the memory of Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, Phillipe Barham, and Francoise-Michel Saada, the French Jewish men who were shopping at the Hyper Cacher in Paris and were murdered by terrorists.
I wonder if we fully appreciate how, at the holiest time of the Jewish year, Jews are still routinely, subtly and powerfully required to make choices between their Jewishness and their wholesale belonging in various professional, communal, and organizational worlds.