Tag: Orthodox

“[She] Told Me She’d Written a Book about Our Family, “Kissing Girls on Shabbat”… I Only Wish We had Reconnected Sooner”

Chloe Safier

Chloe Safier talks to her cousin, Sara Glass, about “Kissing Girls on Shabbat,” leaving Orthodox Judaism, and buying yoga pants for the first time.

The Struggle of Finding Shelter as an Orthodox Woman

Rishe Groner

Sukkot is supposed to be the holiday of rejoicing. And yet for me, a particularly difficult time, as a single woman. Usually, it’s the week before Sukkot that I put… Read more »

On Unorthodox: The Hasidim Are Not An Anomaly

Leah Lax

The Hasidim are not foreigners, not a quaint or irrelevant anomaly.

My Forbidden (Mechitza) Love Story

Nathalie Michelle Gorman

I grew up Reform in a synagogue that “sat mixed.”