Danielle Durchslag
So, T and I came up with a compromise. I would show up to her daughter’s Purim reading, in costume, dressed AS a mechitza, and stand on the men’s side.
That Time I Dressed as a Mechitza… for Feminism
Tag: feminism
How to Be a Writer, With Susan Shapiro
Lynn Brown Rosenberg
Q & A on Sue Shapiros novel “The Book Bible” and her advice to future authors.
The Past is Still With Us: Melodie Winawer Q&A
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Melodie Winawer talks with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about weaving together the seemingly disparate strands of her life into one highly original and engaging story.
The Burden of Pregnancy
Shira M. Zemel
Two of my pregnancies ended in miscarriage, and the other two resulted in the greatest joys of my life. But all four were a burden — emotionally and physically, personally and professionally.
The Uterus Challah Recipe You’ve Been Waiting For
Logan Zinman Gerber
As I look at my new daughter, I think about what a few more decades of restrictions could mean for her future. I knead harder.
“The Sex Lives of College Girls”— Relax and Enjoy the Feminism
Sharrona Pearl
If “The Sex Lives of College Girls” feels very familiar, it’s because, to any Gen Xer or older millennial who went, or knows someone who went, to an elite university, it’s supposed to be.
A Chicago Heiress Who Helped Jews Escape the Nazis
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Inspired by an heiress living in Paris when Hitler invaded, who might have gone home like most Americans did, but instead stayed and risked her life to help strangers.
She Turns Houses into Homes for Refugees from Afghanistan
Eleanor J. Bader
Ruth’s Refuge furnishes the apartments of incoming refugees as they struggle to establish a toehold in their new communities.
The Best of Lilith
Lila Goldstein
Time feels like it’s standing still, so why not revisit some gems from the Lilith archive?