by Leah Koenig
…like? Listen up. Chana Rothman Rothman picked up a guitar at 15, and wrote her first song at 17 — an experience she described as “a magical, chemical equation.” For…
The New, Hip Music Mavens
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Debbie Friedman Helped Me Find My Voice
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
…Chana Rothman. As summer often is, this summer of 2005 is a threshold, a resting place between college and the real world, on the cusp of personal change. After many…
Upstanders
Amy Stone
… “Singer/songwriter Chana Rothman (left) and Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer, Director of Education at HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, participate in the Jewish Rally for Refugees in…
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg on Bewilderments
Chana Thompson Shor
…by God. Curious about her approach, Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor spoke to Dr. Zornberg via email. What most surprised you while you were exploring BaMidbar in preparation for writing Bewilderments?…
Happening
compiled by Naomi Danis
…Jewish women searching for role models, and celebrates the achievements of Devorah, Beruriah, Gracia Mendesa, Gluckel von Hamlen, Emma Lazarus, Emma Goldman, Chana Szenes, Ida Kaminska, and Golda Meir. The…
Digging Deeper into Esther’s Mysteries
Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor
…as it was for the Jews of Persia who found light, joy, happiness and honor, so may it be for us! And long may it last. Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor is…
Letters
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…that Jewish women can and do incorporate positive images of femaleness into tfilah (prayer) and Torah. by Chana Abrams, Los Altos, CA I would like to suggest an addition to…
Holding Our Feminist Breaths
by Naomi Danis
…Chana Henkin, dean and founder of Nishmat, led a workshop on “New Religious Leadership Roles for Women.” She said she did not think it wise for women to demand the…
Peacebuilding
by Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor
…injustice wherever we find it. Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor is a Conservative rabbi, the first woman mesader gittin (preparer of Jewish religious divorce), a Judaic fabric artist, and a writer….
Moses in Real Life?
Chana Thompson Shor
…about speaking and failures of communication. Zornberg’s analysis of Moses’s difficulties point to the ambivalent relationship we have with language itself—and therefore also with our sacred textual traditions. Chana Thompson…