voices
Is gossip just a derogatory term for women’s speech? And are prohibitions against gossip just another way to silence women?
In Defense of Lashon Hara: Why Gossip Is a Feminist Imperative
Summer 2017
Why Your Life Is Being Consumed by Your Work
How to cure our time-crunch epidemic. Forgotten Jewish feminist celebrations. A ritual for breast reduction. Jews and gender in the Jim Crow South. A daughter on her abused mother.
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What’s Missing When Jews Talk About Abortions
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Jews are overwhelmingly pro-choice. So why do we selectively fall silent?
An Unlikely Poster Child for Planned Parenthood
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Why this 25-year-old sings the organization’s praises. Prepare to be surprised.
The Wedding Dress Whisperer and Me
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What pulls a seasoned New York Times reporter to Rochel Leah Katz, guru for ultra-Orthodox brides?
These New Jewish Holidays Brought to You By Feminism
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Defrost the liturgy, democratize religious practices, innovate from Bible narratives and you get the celebrations we need now.
I Served the Man Who Beat My Mother
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What’s expected of a daughter who witnesses violence? This haunting memoir tells us.
A Ritual for Breast Reduction
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The time has come for the ritual we bet you (and Lilith) never before considered. Here’s one way to prepare for an under-discussed surgery.
The Rules Do Not Apply
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What did Levy reveal—to herself— when she wrote her same-sex wedding vows?
Jews & Gender in the Jim Crow South
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Afraid they’d be seen as non-white non-citizens, established Jews enforced Southern gender norms (homebound “ladies” and “chivalrous,” prosperous gentlemen) among their immigrant co-religionists.
Miscarriage Memorial
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When Your Work Crowds Out Your Actual Life
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It’s about more than just kids and way more than your personal solutions. What should employers—like Jewish and feminist organizations—be doing?
Poem: After the War
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It was a Czech film and the lead was a dead ringer for my uncle, same full cheeks, almond eyes, slicked back hair, there he was, my uncle, on screen,... Read more »
