Joy Ladin’s transgender journey. How 3 sisters grapple with breast cancer in their family. Breaking up over food. Why Judy Shotten brought sex therapy to Israel.
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A transgender woman remembers a painful search.
When an infant dies at a Chinese orphanage, an American volunteer manages to commemorate the little life Jewishly
The author’s unconventional wedding plans get less conventional as she lets her mother, fighting breast cancer, take over the planning.
No one sees him come in. Shabbat candles flicker on the table. The braid of challah is almost eaten. Remnants of fruit salad lie in plates, and glasses are empty.... Read more »
A young woman recounts a painful struggle, through adolescence and young adulthood, which is only relieved through disordered eating and then 103 cuts.
Two kosher-keeping Jews walk into a restaurant… and the true challenges of breaking bread with a partner who has different food rules become painfully apparent.
It wasn’t easy for Yeshiva University to accept that a male professor to whom it had recently given tenure was returning to work as a female professor. Transsexual transition is... Read more »
The Canadian-born feminist psychologist - who brought sex therapy to Israel - has been transforming things there since 1949.
