Women & Feminism

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

Megillat Ruth is named for the heroine Ruth, who clung to Naomi in what the tradition has perceived as an ...

The night before my wedding, as I was falling asleep, I realized that my fiance and I hadn’t discussed whether ...

“My husband forgot Mother’s Day flowers, so I had sex with another man.” So wrote an anonymous woman disappointed in ...

I was born Orthodox. I was raised Orthodox. And without much of a rebellion at all, I slipped into adulthood ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

 “April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.” —T.S. ...

The use of tzniut, modesty, as a cudgel against Jewish women has been well documented in the JOFA Journal, conferences, ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tazriah, includes the stipulation that, following the birth of a child, a mother must separate herself ...

This summer, I had the privilege of attending a conference about Partnership Minyanim, hosted by Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem. I ...

Memories of the film, Yentl, came to mind when a number of highly Jewishly educated women invited me to join ...