Amanda Herring and Mo Golden
Are you all fired up? Tevet babies, this is for you!
Are you all fired up? Tevet babies, this is for you!
You don’t want to be interacting with your nemesis on a daily basis. That’s exhausting.
When I grab the mic for 4 minutes, I break the illusion that the narratives worth listening to are ones we’ve already heard.
Choosing to go to the mikveh this last time felt like something I had to do for myself, alone.
In a story about gentile Albanians protecting Jewish ones, I saw what my Muslim great grandparents, living in Nazi-occupied North Macedonia in the 1940s, experienced.
I was a drifter between cultural identities, often performing culture rather than truly feeling part of it.
I wore only skirts for years, but I didn’t care for Judaism much. I wear pants now, but I pray.
Thoughts on fat activism and our desires.
Over the past several years, since the #MeToo movement has gained prominence, reckonings around sexual misconduct and harassment have taken place throughout the global Jewish community. Continuing the momentum of this movement is hard while so many other issues, including the ongoing pandemic, occupy our space. But this work is far from over, and an open call for authentic testimony reminds the wider community that this culture has lasting, negative effects.
“I look at a car as an opportunity to get out of poverty, to have more opportunities.”