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A Haitian-American reflects on what Judaism has taught her in relation to childhood motherloss and Haiti’s devastation.
How Judaism is Helping Me
Spring 2010
How 20-somethings date now. A new film about cross-racial adoption and Jewish identity. Progressive bride/ Orthodox synagogue wedding. Learning to take credit for what we do.
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Politics in the Kitchen
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The telephone rang just as Miriam finished loading the breakfast dishes into the dishwasher. Even though Ella would arrive in a few minutes, Miriam preferred to leave a clean kitchen.... Read more »
Your Brain, On Love
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Some of the weird and wonderful ways that brain chemistry and culture collide to affect whom we love, and how.
Women Handling Our Sacred Texts
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Powerful images of women Torah readers, Torah makers, scholars and interpreters, and what’s behind their often transgressive work.
Standing Suspended in This Miracle
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Launching the nuptial festivities, a traditional wedding tisch (“table”) has been a men-only occasion for teaching and learning. Here, Lilith’s book editor tells what she taught the guests at her wedding.
In London, Her Wedding Space Reshapes the Whole Experience
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What drives a progressive Jewish woman to marry under Orthodox strictures in an Orthodox synagogue? Sometimes, the building itself.
Who Am I?
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Opper’s new documentary powerfully chronicles the feelings — and the poignant searching — of Avery Klein-Cloud, an African-American teenager who at birth was adopted into an interracial Jewish lesbian family in Brooklyn
How Twenty-Somethings Mate Now
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Three (very Jewish) rabbis’ daughters, inhabiting a multicultural, radically new world, dish seriously about their non-Jewish partnering.
