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A brand new reading for Passover, to help us remember what’s inside us: generations within generations.
Sex in an Orthodox marriage. Ceremonies for separating when a relationship comes apart. How summer camp transforms girls. Frontier bris. A new traveling exhibition spotlights Lilith’s first 25 years.
Table of contents Get the issueA brand new reading for Passover, to help us remember what’s inside us: generations within generations.
Jewish Girls and African-American Nannies I cannot tell you how the article on Jewish girls and African-American Nannies [Winter 2002-2003] affected me. All my feelings about “my Lucy” were expressed.... Read more »
First it was hit then thrown forward. Up and quickly down under the car in front before it rolled under mine. I could feel the body hit the chassis. I... Read more »
"These things that I tell you are secret," says a young woman who has learned, slowly, to appreciate being the engine of her sex life.
A rabbi writes her own get, brings along a minyan of women, and creates a feminist ritual for a male-dominated moment.
A Rosh Hodesh group chooses the theme and symbols of Havdalah, the ceremonial farewell to the Sabbath, to ferry a friend out of her marriage.
A twentysomething doc with a gleam in her eye takes herself into the O.R. Here's what she thought when science met culture on the circumcision table.