Sexism in science. The invigorating last days of Miami’s Lido Spa. A new contract actually celebrates your Jewish marriage. Healing after terror. Lilith’s fiction contest winner.
Since Eve, women have been spiritual seekers. Some are now pathfinders as well.
A 26-year-old rabbinical student faces the facts. She's young. She's inexperienced. She can't figure out how to dress the part. But she's gotta be the Rabbi (that's with a capital "R") anyway.
Senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel, the Beverly Hills Reform congregation, the first woman rabbi to hold such a position in a major metropolitan city. Rabbi Laura Geller did not ascend to the position... Read more »
I’m a nice Jewish girl who grew up to be a Witch,” says Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance and other books. “My father was a Communist who died when I was... Read more »
Musician, songwriter and performer Debbie Friedman’s music has become part of the canon in a tradition that takes music seriously. Her music teaches the Hebrew alphabet, introduces overlooked women in the Bible,... Read more »
In the mid-1970s, Sylvia Boorstein, author of That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and Passionate Buddhist, was a practicing psychotherapist, wife, and mother of four children. Her... Read more »
Self-help instructions to stifle rage, terror and sadness deny us the chance to survive these feelings robustly. A psychotherapist hints at what we can garner from the gloom.
When we recite the Yizkor memorial service, we’re really paying attention to our own tiny, ephemeral moment in history.
On Friday nights Bubby drags three over-stuffed chairslike they were sacks of grain or sandacross the balding green carpet;she serves supper on Deputy Dawgand Yogi Bear folding tray tables. This... Read more »
If there’s a sound she remembers, it’s the creaking of the rope as she walked across the ramp of the ship floorboards of the entire floating slum the groaning of... Read more »
We were girls, said my grandmother We went to the river with our laundry we beat it on the stones, washing it clean, and then we spread it on the... Read more »
Hook and eye, a girl is cut from a shirtwaist, sewn up at the lids and temples, pulled like thread through muslin through the workweek. The earliest children are caught... Read more »
Roth’s peripatetic camera invited us to share the fun of the seventy-, eighty-, and ninety-something women gathering in Miami for the last days of the Lido spa.
Scientist Esther Braun Sparberg on sexism in science, 50 years after Rosalind Franklin helped discover DNA.
7 AM at the Wall the men eddy and swirl,wearing their prayers on their sleeves.Angry old men with long beardsshout against the wallas if it were a donkeyblocking the road.... Read more »
