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Home for the Holidays
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I’m flying home to Chicago for Thanksgiving, and bringing…my boyfriend. On the face of things, it’s no big deal, right? People bring their partners home all the time – and… Read more »
I Can't Believe I'm Saying This, But…
Mel Weiss
I’m ready for some smaller government. Now, if you’ve ever met me (or read anything else I’ve written here), this might be a perplexing statement. How do you go from… Read more »
Feminist Awakenings
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What struck me most upon reading Deborah Siegel’s engaging history of the modern feminist movement, Sisterhood: Interrupted, was the sense of absolute awakening that the feminist revolution of the 1960s… Read more »
Ode to Ann Coulter
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Here’s something to lift Melanie’s spirits. Or perhaps anger her further. Though I “defended” Ann Coulter two posts ago from the big whoop about her statements regarding Jews on CNBC’s… Read more »
The Virtues of…Guilt
Mel Weiss
You probably don’t have to think too hard to guess what my feelings are of the stereotypes of Jewish women as guilt-inducing shrews. I’m not much of a fan, to… Read more »
Feeling Goaty
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The back to the land movement – when city folks packed up and moved to rural places to try out their country legs – enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s… Read more »
A Very Unruly Emotion
Mel Weiss
Do you ever have that thing where you get really involved with your own life for a few days, and you don’t read the newspaper or hit the blogs or… Read more »
Sweeping Out From Under the Rug: Domestic Abuse Awareness in the Jewish Community
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There’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is, domestic abuse is a problem in the Jewish community. The good news is, as a spate of recent articles… Read more »
Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants
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A few weeks ago, I shared a Shabbat meal with mostly strangers – a last minute invitation, friend-of-a-friend sort of thing. Like so many other Shabbat dinners I’ve attended, the… Read more »
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In this creative writing workshop with Lilith magazine, join writer and theologian Rabbi @juliawattsbelser to explore how disability wisdom can help us tap into the subversive spiritual power of Shabbat—and disentangle our worth from our work. Drawing on her article in the latest issue of Lilith, Julia will share creative prompts to spark our imagination and invite us to craft our own micro practices for finding rest and respite in these days. All are welcome.
When: Friday, May 17, 12-1 pm Eastern
Where: Zoom!
➡️ ➡️ RSVP at Link in Bio!
Image Description: Text on the image reads: “Disability Wisdom and the Subversive Power of Radical Rest. Creative Writing Workshop with Lilith magazine and Rabbi Julia Watts Belser. Friday, May 17, 12-1 pm ET.” Above the text is an illustration of two pink figures with their arms around each other. One happily has their eyes closed while the other looks on. To the right of the text is a portrait of Julia Watts Belser, a white Jewish woman with curly brown hair, sits happily in her wheelchair in front of a flowering bush. She`s wearing a patterned red blazer and red kippah (beret) to match.
In this creative writing workshop with Lilith magazine, join writer and theologian Rabbi @juliawattsbelser to explore how disability wisdom can help us tap into the subversive spiritual power of Shabbat—and disentangle our worth from our work. Drawing on her article in the latest issue of Lilith, Julia will share creative prompts to spark our imagination and invite us to craft our own micro practices for finding rest and respite in these days. All are welcome.
When: Friday, May 17, 12-1 pm Eastern
Where: Zoom!
➡️ ➡️ RSVP at Link in Bio!
Image Description: Text on the image reads: “Disability Wisdom and the Subversive Power of Radical Rest. Creative Writing Workshop with Lilith magazine and Rabbi Julia Watts Belser. Friday, May 17, 12-1 pm ET.” Above the text is an illustration of two pink figures with their arms around each other. One happily has their eyes closed while the other looks on. To the right of the text is a portrait of Julia Watts Belser, a white Jewish woman with curly brown hair, sits happily in her wheelchair in front of a flowering bush. She`s wearing a patterned red blazer and red kippah (beret) to match.
It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
Read this 💎 from our archives.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
Read this 💎 from our archives.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
Shabbat Shalom 💓
Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
Shabbat Shalom 💓
Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
