Tapestries, Sacred and Profane
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I, a weaver since childhood, decided to use this ancient craft to take on the centuries-old tradition of making commentaries on Jewish texts — as well as on the engaging,... Read more »
Fall 2014
Less Obvious Paths to Juadaism
Unexpected paths: Beyonce, sex, and gender transitioning can lead deep into Judaism. Outing her “Catholic” family’s secret in a standup routine. What Jewish feet reveal. Wedding dresses sans the wedding. Traveling while Jewish.
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Poetry
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the coffee drifts down these long bronx halls into my young waking nose Wake to coffee my mother says I am too young to drink.O, the future, so far, so... Read more »
The Lives Under the Stones
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Illustration by Hila Peleg To get to the Jewish cemetery, you have to go underground. This is true for the living as well as the dead, although it’s been an... Read more »
Beyoncé & Moses
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A self-styled millennial finds revelation —just like at Mt. Sinai —when a new album drops.
My Jewish Feet
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Her feet are flat. And what she thought was familial turns out to be tribal, at least in the minds of anti-Semites. Who knew?
Say Yes to the Dress
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Two unmarried sisters (no husbands in sight) make sure their dying dad sees them in their wedding dresses. What happens next requires a hanky.
“Never Tell Anyone”: A Comedienne Breaks Her Family Taboo
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Her stand-up shtick blows her traumatized family’s “Catholic” cover. Fear and fury ensue.
Transitioning & Converting
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“G-d damn it.” I was 19 and on the phone with my then-partner. They didn’t want me to be a man. They were sure that I wasn’t one. They’d asked... Read more »
The Real Meaning Behind Audrey Flack’s Art
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Audrey Flack’s intensely illusionist canvases plumb personal and feminist issues replete with complex symbolic iconography. Scholars principally address Flack’s feminist content, in both her paintings, which often probe stereotypes of... Read more »
Sex & Judaism
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At an Orgasm Meditation conference (What?*#!!), the author argues with Naomi Wolf, and does a mash-up of the divine feminine, Talmudic wisdom on sex, and her dad's traditional Judaism.
Find Your Fergusons
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The second highest source of revenue in Ferguson is from traffic tickets. Spend some time in night court. You’ll see that the defendants are almost all black. It is no wonder that our prisons are full of people who are poor and black. Prison is big business here, as it is everywhere.
Jewish While Traveling
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A travel writer used to be afraid because she’s female. Now she turns down gigs where her revealing surname and her passport stamps signal danger.
