In the 20th century, many women changed their Jewish-sounding surnames to avoid workplace anti-Semitism and to get a job. What was gained --and what was forfeited?
WE WERE KOSHER-STYLE JEWS. Never pork (except in Chinese restaurants); we always walked to services on the holidays (but we didn’t go to Shabbat services); we changed plates for Pesach... Read more »
It’s not the three miscarriages that soured her relationship with God; her fertility struggle exposed the doubt that had already crept in.
While the media spotlight has, deservedly, focused on the winners of November’s mid-term elections, it would be ecologically foolhardy to turn all our attention away from the Jewish women who were defeated.
More than anything else, more than revenge, more than the last word, I just wanted peace. I wanted, I needed to know what to do to end this cycle.
“The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.” — www.yadvashem.org He looked like a man I could have spent my... Read more »
Social class and gender roles are at play in keeping the house clean.
At the age of 90, my mother started speaking very differently about her mother. Her jaw tightened when she mentioned her.
She was a young nursing student whose name and face I still remember five decades later, but I will just call her “Jane Roe.”
Teaching wealthy kids shocks Goodman back to the longing, exclusion and shame of her own school days.
Our ideal of reproductive justice rests on a shaky pedestal. Abortion funds are bridging an unsteady present and a frightening future.
