“Our Entire Community is Shaken”
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Our entire community is shaken by the fact that we had the door to our small Tucson synagogue broken. It did damage not only to the facility, it did damage... Read more »
Spring 2021
Will the Earth Forgive Us?
All things periods • Patriarchy, race and the Cosmos • Ecofeminists answer urgent questions • A sex therapist loses (and finds!) her orgasms in shul • The Jewish Jane Austen
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“Judaism is Ecological at its Heart”
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Rabbi Ellen Bernstein links Judaism and the land to answer questions more urgent now than ever.
Jewish Ecofeminism through Time
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A Lilith timeline of Jewish ecofeminist vigor, hard work and radical ideas.
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
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A “nature novice” embraces the wisdom of birdwatching.
Talking All Things Periods with Anita Diamant & Emilia Diamant
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The Red Tent author and her daughter get real.
Fiction: This Has Been Declared an Unlawful Assembly
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THE CITY WAS burning and I had my first period cramps in a year. At first I had thought it was anxiety—death in the streets, cases piling up at the... Read more »
From the Cosmos to the Patriarchy
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As a Black Jewish person who was socially assigned female at birth, I wasn’t supposed to become a theoretical physicist. Jewish women are familiar with this phenomenon, after having been locked... Read more »
The Jewish Jane Austen Whose Novels Were Almost Forgotten
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Emma Wolf took on assimilation and identity before American Jews were even talking about it.
Poetry: Bubbeh in Shul
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in a cream colored Chanel suit she got at Loehmann’s licks a crooked finger turns a slim page in a prayer book with a busted binding. I never knew her... Read more »
Fiction: My Daughter’s Boyfriends
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“Is it true?” I ask her. “Would you really kill yourself if Owen left you?” She nods solemnly. I fight the urge to call the police, her father, my husband.
Fiction: Still Life
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When he didn’t answer, Ida took her cart and gently, just a touch really, pushed it against the back of his knees. It was barely a tap. But the shmendrick started screaming. "What’s wrong with you, you crazy old woman?!”
Can I Be Angry?
