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A Convert’s Passion for Judaism

…anyone else’s without finding a parallel in the life of Jacob or Tamar or Esther. I delight in throwing around the Jewish organizational alphabet soup: JCPA, UAHC, NIF, ZOA. I…

Maverick Matronymics

…complete with maiden names of her great-great grandparents. I hope she is a proud descendent of all 16. Tamar Newberger is a sales and marketing director at a software company….

Women’s Voices, Women’s Images

…interest in Judaism,” Hamoy admits. Hamoy has also created pieces in series on Lilith and Tamar (“A Womb of Her Own”), has just completed a wrenching series on the Holocaust,…

How to Celebrate Jewish Women

…and leading a women’s group. Each of the 14 chapters can be used as program topics for the group: “Abortion,” “Israel” and “Dina and Tamar.” among them. Each is introduced…

Orthodox Lesbians

…by Miryam Kabakov (North Atlantic Books, $16.95), the book’s primary draw comes from the dozen personal essays that make up its bulk. Some are joyful: Tamar Prager describes her traditional…

Israel’s Abused Children

…testify in court on the child’s behalf. Thirty-six years have passed since this law’s enactment, and according to Tamar Morag, Legal Director of the National Council for the Child, “In…

Happening

…Yael Bartana, Mika Rottenberg, Miri Segal, Ruti Sela, Keren Cytter, Miriam Cabessa, Anat Litwin, Zipora Fried, Ofri Cnaani, Alona Harpaz, Nelly Agassi, Yael Kanerek, Michal Chelbin, Yehudit Sasportas, Tamar Hirschl,…

Fiction: Diamonds and Ashes

…eyes, opening them again only when I glimpse through the small window the thin green skin covering England. Tamar Hodes’ latest novel is The Water and the Wine (Hookline Books)….

Women Gain Record Seats in Knesset…

…Center for Peace in the Middle East. Tamar Gozanski Hadash, 59, MK since 1990, member of Israeli Communist Party Bureau. Dalia Itzik One Israel, 47, MK since 1992, former deputy…

7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2020

…bodily assertiveness rather than apologetics under the guise of modesty. 7) The documentary They Ain’t Ready For Me, directed by Brad Rothschild, follows Tamar Manasseh, a Black Jew, as she…