How a Father’s Addiction Formed a Jewish Feminist
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Was her father’s capitulation to heroin an unlikely model for her work?
Fall 2017
Paradoxes of Power
Powerhouse sisters rage over women’s suffrage. Defying the rules for widows. Mother, daughter and mental illness. A non-Jewish wife finds her place at the table. One woman’s divine body.
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And Today…Helping Progressive Female Candidates Run for Office
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Could providing website design services help more women run for office?
Words That Hurt
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A lawyer devoted to rescuing women, Becker finds out what their travails trigger in her own memories.
A Family History of Mental Illness
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Tenderness, pathology and fear bind this mother and daughter.
The Paradoxes of Power: Female Edition
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Maud Nathan and Annie Nathan Meyer were privileged and strong- willed Jewish sisters with very different views. One was a suffragist. The other founded Barnard and opposed women’s voting rights. Why?
A Place at the Table
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What shifts for this non-Jewish wife, so that she rightfully claims her ritual role.
My Body, Divinely
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Overweight. Anorexic. Miserable. Then the author discovers, with joy and after decades of struggle, how to love the skin she’s in.
Defiance
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A young widow disobeys all the rules about what not to do when you’re swimming through sorrow. And saves herself.
