So that’s what Robert Frost meant??? A secular English literature instructor lands in an ultra-Orthodox high school for girls. "To Sir with Love" with a Jewish spin.
Even the barest outline of Amy Levy’s life is tantalizing. Born in the Clapham section of London in 1861, she was the first Jewish woman admitted to Newnham College, Cambridge.... Read more »
A nursing home is nobody’s idea of a happy ending. But an unusual mother-daughter volunteer team has visited every Friday for many years—-reviving Yiddishe memories for the Jewish residents at a Methodist facility. Plus... -Altruist at Age 14—meet Rachel Dalton, four-year veteran of visiting -"Pretend they’re in armchairs, not wheelchairs."—how to visit a nursing home and what to say when you get there. -"Bring your birds."—Unusual volunteering possibilities, from finches to clown noses.
When we hear about the Druze people’s full participation in Israeli society, that means only the men. A Druze woman can aspire to an engineering degree, but not a driver’s license. This paradox makes Israel’s Jewish population look progressive on women’s roles.
"Continuity"—how to ensure Jewish survival—is the fin-de-millennium hot potato of the organized Jewish community. But how does feminism play in the frenetic drama being enacted in self-important Jewish commissions, task forces and conferences around the country? The real excitement in Jewish life comes from women; our new scholarship, new books, new rituals, new pedagogy. Here’s what’s really "continuity"—the best news is feminist.
Really my mother is moth ball mad;not just attic or basement but living roomstoo, all receive the treatment: generous application to stacksof five for a dollar paperbacks;liberal coverage of rug... Read more »
We wanted our parents to be bland,to fade into the flocked wallpaper.We wanted our parentsto pay less attention to us.We wanted our mothersnot to sew our clothes and notclutch us... Read more »
My ancestors have put on weight, their bodies white against the skyline of Brooklyn or Warsaw, bath slippers skimming over black roof. Here my ancestors tan and do not age, saving,... Read more »
Beverly Naidus, 41, tenured professor of “activist and new genre art” at California State University at Long Beach, first published her book. One Size Does Not Fit All, at her... Read more »
Raised by a Holocaust survivor, wasting food was the only thing close to "sin" in my childhood family.
HAIR WE GO AGAIN What about women with no hair? How about Phyllis Ocean Berman, Program Director of Elat Chayyim, the Jewish Renewal Retreat Center, who chose to go wigless after... Read more »
