Amy Stone
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
Sigd is a holiday celebrating Jewish unity and diversity.
Over the past several years, since the #MeToo movement has gained prominence, reckonings around sexual misconduct and harassment have taken place throughout the global Jewish community. Continuing the momentum of this movement is hard while so many other issues, including the ongoing pandemic, occupy our space. But this work is far from over, and an open call for authentic testimony reminds the wider community that this culture has lasting, negative effects.
What does the biblical prophet Moses have to do with modern day disability, inclusion, and accommodation? “Everything,” says Maryland Rabbi Lauren Tuchman.
“I look at a car as an opportunity to get out of poverty, to have more opportunities.”
I don’t know how to handle small worries anymore.
Anya Rous’s latest film, Pray Away, lays bare the practice of LGBTQ conversion therapy in the Baptist church, featuring intimate profiles of all parties involved. It’s now streaming on Netflix.
The new novel, “The Hidden Child”, set in Britain in the years between the two world wars, exposes—and challenges— pernicious ideas about epilepsy and sheds a more benevolent light on the disorder.
Were you born between October 7 & November 4? Read your Jewish horoscope…
‘The New Forty’ invites women 40 years old to 100+ who are new to writing for publication to participate in a one year Jewish feminist writing cohort.