Jewitches are back! • The afterlife of Ethel Rosenberg • How to mourn a friend in a 10-month shiva • New--a nonbinary naming ritual • Tovah Feldshuh's Everywoman qualities • Mahjong, and why this women's game matters
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Elements of traditional practice plus earth-rooted ideology = the return of the Jewitch. Plus: Keshira HaLev Fife on her calling as a Kohenet priestess.
Someone suggested placing a crystal on my third eye while meditating. “My third eye?” I asked, touching my forehead, and then replying, “Oh! You mean the place for my head tefillin?”
Crafting a Jewish ceremony to celebrate my new, non-binary name.
In 1930's France, fifteen-year-old Manon is presented with the opportunity to pose as a nude model for Matisse, in order to secure American visas for her family.
Ethel Rosenberg’s literary (and familial) afterlife continues to trigger pain and controversy for her daughter-in-law.
A Chinese game of skill has cultural significance for Jews—and women.
“In kindergarten, everyone was asked what they wanted to be when they grew up,” Keshira haLev Fife recalls of her childhood. “And I said I wanted to be a rabbi, even before I understood what it meant.”
After a friend’s suicide during the pandemic, a group mourned over Zoom. The solace was not entirely as expected.
