Jessica Angelson talks to Susan Schnur
…I thought I’d have a career in public health, but it wasn’t satisfying day-to-day, so I started thinking about clinical work. I’d always had an interest in reproductive justice. In…
Generation Midwife
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The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News For Jews
by Susan Weidman Schneider
…We have a very clear understanding that when these freedoms are abridged in one area — in this case, reproductive rights — they may soon be restricted in other areas,…
Winning Any Office (or Male-Dominated Environment)
Danica Davidson
…my intro. DD: You’ve talked about your passion for reproductive autonomy and economic security for women. With all the recent attacks on women’s reproductive rights and the fight still going…
Letters
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Female Mohels Why is it that women tend to make themselves feel more “a part of the world” by emulating men and male behavior? Having women mohels [“When the Mohel…
Circumcision Is No Insurance
by Sharon Lieberman
…the risk of disease through our sexual behavior, we take on a responsibility for our sexual and reproductive lives, for our health, our bodies, our selves. What Is a Jew?…
‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ – The women’s movement gets a kick-ass documentary
Amy Stone
…not be part of this revolution? The “Our Bodies, Ourselves” collective, still going strong in Boston, took the mystery out of the female reproductive system. Their eponymous book, constantly revived…
A Student Teaches Her Principal
Corinne Singer
…their own sexual desire. 2.Your lectures and reprimands teach girls to enter the unspeakably painful process of separating our own selves from our bodies. We learn to deny ourselves wholeness….
The Heretics – What’s Not to Like?
Amy Stone
…nostalgic or cobwebby rant from our impassioned Younger Selves. And lots of the women interviewed see their younger selves with humor. One of the Heretics recalls, not with pain but…
A Woman’s Tashlich
Susan Schnur with Marcia Falk
…psalm,” and we finally feel ourselves part of everything. Water here is wholeness, vitality, moving, streaming away to the sea. So many of us experience ourselves as small—“even for the…
Women with Ph.D.’s and Their Mothers
by Charlotte Margolis Goodman
…my right hand corrects a student’s paper Neither of my two selves ever is fully satisfied with the results of my labors—and both of my selves too often feel exhausted….