Martha Anne Toll
We call our doctor, who says to isolate her immediately, “Lock her up, do the deepest clean possible and leave food outside her door as needed.”
Dayenu: Dispatches From the Covid Sick Ward
Tag: feminism
An Imaginary Quarter of a Food-Obsessed City
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Debut novelist Carmit Delman talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how food becomes both marker and symbol for the haves and the have nots.
Making Jewish Life in 15th Century Spain Come Alive for Kids
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Newberry award-winning author Gail Carson Levine talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about bringing significant episodes in Jewish history to life again.
Warmth from an Afghan Blanket
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Coronavirus has suddenly changed our lives, so quickly and in ways so profound that we are just beginning to grasp.
When I Tried to Get Girls to Wear Tefillin
Elana Rebitzer
That summer, and every summer since, I’ve been one of the only women to wear tefillin at prayer services every morning.
7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2019
Helene Meyers
From Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bella Abzug, to Tiffany Haddish, #MeToo and local politics.
“Failed Self-Abortion With a Wire Hanger”: A Letter from a Namesake to an Ancestor
Jamie Zabinsky
“Because of you, I know the perpetual urgency of safeguarding women’s autonomy. I hear the dire importance of maintaining control over my body in my own name.”
It’s Time to Be a Single-Issue Voter for the Climate
Nylah Burton
As a Black Jewish feminist I am committed to many issues that are life and death–from police violence to abortion–but for the first time, I find myself zeroing in on a singular issue: climate catastrophe.
Israel’s Trailblazing Candidates Dima Taya and Michal Zernowitzki
Joan Roth
Worlds apart, and running on the tickets of opposing parties, Dima Taya and Michal Zernowitski both plan to play a key role in bringing peace,
A (Feminist) Defense of Barbie as She Turns 60
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Is there anything Barbie can’t be or do?