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A Lady and Her Bicycle

…world, and capable of anything.   Chana Widawski, LMSW, chairs her block association, stewards her local park and leads educational travel programs around the globe. She works with survivors of…

A Lady and Her Bicycle

…world, and capable of anything.   Chana Widawski, LMSW, chairs her block association, stewards her local park and leads educational travel programs around the globe. She works with survivors of…

Happy Canada Day!

…of Exile, about anti-Israelism in academe. Returning to the Garden by Chana Widawski Outside New York, Toronto, and Baltimore, Jews are farming in communities that merge ecology and social justice….

Feminist Awakenings

…to be one; and another in which a young Orthodox woman, Chana, declares she is decidedly not a feminist though everyone assumes she would be, since she is extremely bright,…

Modest Hasidic Girls

…told Chana in Yiddish, ‘When you become a boy, you’ll understand.’ Everyone laughed, including Chana and Mrs. Silver.” Hasidic girls are taught that their modesty, explained as the obligation to…

Mrs. Akiva Speaks

…earlier, I need to spend five days a week working as a laundress from dawn to dusk, otherwise I will not be able to support Chana. That first week we…

Democratizing Pleasure in the Frum Bedroom

…massage therapy, businesses and creators are building sex-toy enterprises on Jewish principles. In 2018, Chana Boteach— daughter of Shmuley Boteach author of the 1998 bestseller Kosher Sex—launched the sex toy…