Nechama Liss-Levinson
Our hearts bleed for these women and we cry out at our Seder…
Our hearts bleed for these women and we cry out at our Seder…
These regulations, brought to you by the same people who decided to separate children from their parents, will be particularly loathsome for women and for those who are LGBTQ.
Let’s create new rituals and weave our food deprivations into our holistic understanding of what this Seder is and what it represents.
What happened to our matriarchs who were sexually appropriated as egg donors and surrogate mothers?
Every year, on the morning of Passover, I must ask myself, “How can I strive to be one of the midwives?”
The story starts on August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans with a fury. The damage was unimaginable and the suffering of those affected was sprawled on the 24 hour TV news.