Olga Zelzburg Alterman
Personally, I argue that every person born in the Soviet Union belongs to this generation of the wilderness. We were born in a sort of bondage, after all.
This War, Passover and the Generation of the Wilderness
Tag: Passover
New Flavors to Spice Up Your Passover and Beyond
Susan Barocas
Contrary to the pressure we often put on ourselves to achieve perfection in what we prepare and serve… it helps to keep in mind that Passover is not meant to be a performance.
How Mary Lumpkin Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
Kristen Green & Carolivia Herron
Thank you, my dear Great Great Grandmother Mary Lumpkin. You are Miriam for us, dancing with the timbrel, I hear you from the freedom side of the sea.
A New Haggadah from Marcia Falk
Susan Schnur
Falk’s new Haggadah brings us life-saving steps in the right direction: she retains some of the original patriarchal conceits, jettisons others, and makes the Haggadah personal and very accessible.
My Tattoos, Queerness, Ex-Orthodoxy… Oh My!
Je'Jae Cleo Daniels
With my tattoos, I am an artsy fartsy Jewess who has forged my own authentic derech (path).
From the Margins to the Center of the Cosmos
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Reaching from the stars to the very earthly matters of Judaism, gender, race, and dismantling the patriarchy, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Carolivia Herron.
Beyond Exodus: A Psalm for Juneteenth
Rebecca S'manga Frank
As I imagine (the way I do as an artist), what freedom meant in 1865 in Galveston, while simultaneously reflecting on what it means to me today, I invite you to celebrate the freedom, brilliance, and resilience of Black people
Seder-Masochism: Beyond the Orange and Miriam’s Cup
Amy Stone
By now these items are standard fare at a feminist seder – the once transgressive orange on the Seder Plate; Miriam’s cup of clear, life-giving water next to Elijah’s cup of blood red wine. But wait! Most of us have yet to dig beneath the God and Moses Exodus story, even with Aviva Cantor’s “Jewish… Read more »
Jamaican Kosher Oxtail Stew with a Yemeni Twist
Aayisha Ruby Gold
As a person of Native American, Jamaican, and Southeast Asian descent—and Jewish!–I have taken my mother and father’s oxtail recipes and elevated them, with a Kosher twist.