Rebecca Katz
A creative activity for your Passover seder.
Contrary to the pressure we often put on ourselves to achieve perfection in what we prepare and serve… it helps to keep in mind that Passover is not meant to be a performance.
Thank you, my dear Great Great Grandmother Mary Lumpkin. You are Miriam for us, dancing with the timbrel, I hear you from the freedom side of the sea.
By recreating my trauma onscreen, I understood Passover in a new way.
I am a sex-positive feminist and a sex-neutral asexual and a Modern Orthodox woman all at once. I am a sexually liberated woman.
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
I can think of nothing more exciting than at 45, in a place that I consider my home away from home, to be reborn as a serious table tennis competitor.
In a bittersweet turn of fate, it was my family’s chauvinism that cemented my social status as a woman.
A Yiddish-inflected expression of pride with rich wisdom and “humor to spare.”
A Re-Reading of the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora for Survivors of Sexual Violence