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At readings, there’s a palpable sense of relief, that the unpopular opinion we hold has been spoken aloud, and that this community of mothers and midwives who feel this way exists.

There we are, a group of feminist scholars and leaders, in a movement seeking to change the gender landscape of Orthodox Jewish leadership.

It happened! On June 16 three Orthodox women were ordained as clergy by an Orthodox religious institution.

In the span of two weeks, I was sexually harassed twice on the subway.

“They are Americans,” my father often explained about my brother and me while we were growing up.

My husband and I long ago decided that a Jewish day school education was a top priority for us.

Though Mother’s Day 2013 may be a wrap, it’s not too late to gift your maternal unit with a copy of What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty One Women On The Gifts That Mattered Most.

When I was in second grade, I didn’t want to make a Mother’s Day card with the rest of the kids in class. 

Separate and hopefully finally equal. In the women’s section of the wall, women can now put on all the ritual accoutrements of prayer traditionally worn by men and can conduct services, read from the Torah without getting hauled off by police for offending some Orthodox males in the men’s section of the wall.