Rori Picker Neiss
Why the individuals who struggle with niddah so often feel ostracized.
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Tag: Guest Blogger
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… 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… Read more »
Being Ima on and off the Bima
by Rabbi Phyllis Sommer
Cross-posted with Ima (on and off) the Bima. Last night, I noticed a tweet from Rabbi Jason Miller, sharing with me an article written on the Forward’s Sisterhood blog. I… Read more »