Rori Picker Neiss
Why the individuals who struggle with niddah so often feel ostracized.
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My Writing Roots in Porn Lit
Guest Blogger
I pored over the want ads in the Village Voice. Telemarketer? Nurse’s aide? Nothing clicked until I read this one:
STAFF WRITER
ADULT FICTION
A Conversation with Alix Kates Shulman
by Patricia Grossman
Alix Kates Shulman has been a passionate feminist voice for over 40 years, bringing to light questions of marital parity and other front-line issues of women's rights in her memoirs and other nonfiction.
An interview with Lilith magazine’s Editor in Chief
Guest Blogger
Cross-posted with Kosher Salt. Anyone who read Freakonomics remembers the chapter on how a person’s name can pre-determine their future. If that frightening piece of incredible parental pressure got you thinking about the name game, Susan Weidman Schneider, editor of Lilith magazine, has plenty more to say on what’s in a name and the latest issue of the mag. KS: What’s… Read more »
Spinoza and Cherry Ames
Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy
I could not believe my eyes. Cherry Ames, the quintessential Midwestern Gentile, was learning Hebrew from a New York deli owner.
Peach Fuzz Lishma (for its own sake):(“Peaching, Not Preaching”)
Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy
It’s a new way of living – but fortunately, as a Jew, I know a term for it – “lishma”. We are urged to study the Torah, for example, “lishma”, for its own sake, but not because we will derive some advantage – economic, professional, psychological – from doing so, but simply “for its own sake”.
Beit Shemesh, Religious Extremism, and the Dignity of Women: Some Lessons from History
by Rabbi David Ellenson
This is not the first time such conflict between sectors of the ultra-Orthodox community and the other Jewish citizens of the State of Israel has been manifest. Indeed, such clashes predate the State itself.
A Call for Civility for ALL Israeli Citizens
by Shari Eshet
This is not a new phenomenon. What is new is that now, finally, the secular population is realizing that such incidents are not only about what “they” do in their own communities, but rather a symptom of the political system that has allowed religion to become part and parcel of civil government and civil society.
Riding the Buses in Jerusalem
by Nancy K. Kaufman
Cross-posted with The NCJW Insider. I am writing from Jerusalem where I am on a study tour with 23 women from the National Council of Jewish Women. We are here visiting some of the organizations we fund through our Israel Granting Program and also are meeting with a variety of people to get updates on… Read more »