Recreational DNA Testing & Its Uninvited Consequences

Sarah Seltzer

Amateur ancestry searches can bring unwelcome, life-changing surprises. 

• The Era of Family Secrets Is Over an interview with Libby Copeland
• A Change, Inked: Dani Shapiro Reckons With a DNA Discovery

The Other Jewish Women’s Cancer

Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan

An important signal for ovarian cancer may be lurking in those BRCA gene mutations.

• Mythic Under the Radiation’s Red Eye Beth Kanell
• Across the Barrier Ruth Ebenstein

We All Stand Here Ironing

Jane Lazarre

Jane Lazarre’s tribute to an under-acknowledged giant of literature, Tillie Olsen.

This Year, We Will Fight for Abortion.

Sarah Seltzer

Here's a guide to how.

• Making America Smart Again Rebecca Sive

Beauty Parlor Seder

Andrea Kott

With her mom’s drinking, depression and food stamps, nothing feels conventional about the way they’re Jewish.

A Legacy of Lox

Ruth Andrew Ellenson

NYC’s First Lady of Fish grew up in the legendary “appetizing” store. Then, she and a cousin took it over.

Compliance

fiction by Andrea Greenbaum

“I Threw Out”

poetry by Rachel Wineberg, comment by Alicia Ostriker

Mildred at 100

Susan Weidman Schneider

Meet a woman whose visionary philanthropy and signature humor have helped bring you social-change films, iconoclastic art, and Lilith magazine.