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Mama tells her own immigrant story, accent and all.
Jewish dad, Chinese mom; these girls meet at a casting call. Women’s folk Judaism via bubbe meisehs. Now adults, children hidden during the Holocaust gather and speak out. Hassidic husband walks out.
Table of contents Get the issueMama tells her own immigrant story, accent and all.
Belatedly, a generation of Holocaust survivors (mostly women) comes into its own. One by one, these women break out of their solitude, and feel entitled to call themselves "survivors."
Sometimes it takes decades for a woman to wake up in her marriage.
A painter documents her domestic life—-what’s sacred, sad, simple.
Some farfetched medieval childbirth practices—all scientifically proven.
Does Judaism seem to be of, for and by men? It wasn’t always so. How to retrieve women’s voices through bubbeh meisehs, archeology, folklore and runic texts. Plus...beyond candlesticks: a roundup of unusual ritual objects we bet you never knew about.
Four-year-old Mikki Lee finds out she’s not the only one with a Jewish daddy and a Chinese mom.