Rebecca Mordechai
What’s the connection between Harry Potter, female protagonists, and teshuvah? Nice Jewish Fangirls, a podcast for the geeky and Jewish, is here to answer that.
Jewish, Feminist, and Into Star Wars? There’s a Podcast for That.
Author: Rebecca Mordechai
No Halloween Ghoul Can Compare to the Fear That This Jewish Ritual Inspires
Rebecca Mordechai
Ghosts and vampires aren’t half as scary as the curse of the Evil Eye.
Due on Tuesday: Lesson Plans and a Xanax. The Challenges Facing One Female Teacher.
Rebecca Mordechai
Overt empathy, nurturance, and anxiety. An English teacher reflects on how a motherly consciousness impacts her job.
Subversion, Sex, and Savoy Cabbage: Reclaiming Azerbaijan’s Jewish Cooking
Rebecca Mordechai
One woman navigates the conflict between the patriarchal history of her culture’s cuisine, sexual repression, and her budding feminism.
An Emoji Worth a Thousand Words: One Orthodox Woman Uses Humor to Become Visible
Rebecca Mordechai
Adina Miles, an Orthodox 29-year-old mother of two, has the pluck and the platform to get hundreds of people talking about how absurd it is to conceal women’s faces in conservative Jewish publications.