All things periods • Patriarchy, race and the Cosmos • Ecofeminists answer urgent questions • A sex therapist loses (and finds!) her orgasms in shul • The Jewish Jane Austen
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Rabbi Ellen Bernstein links Judaism and the land to answer questions more urgent now than ever.
A “nature novice” embraces the wisdom of birdwatching.
THE CITY WAS burning and I had my first period cramps in a year. At first I had thought it was anxiety—death in the streets, cases piling up at the hospital—then I thought perhaps gas, as I do have a relatively delicate stomach. But no, pure uterine pain. Small flecks of blood in the toilet... Read more »
As a Black Jewish person who was socially assigned female at birth, I wasn’t supposed to become a theoretical physicist. Jewish women are familiar with this phenomenon, after having been locked out of the rabbinate for centuries. While theoretical physicists, like Rabbis, get to think about exciting questions regarding the origins of spacetime, gatekeeping impacts who... Read more »
in a cream colored Chanel suit she got at Loehmann’s licks a crooked finger turns a slim page in a prayer book with a busted binding. I never knew her more still than she was in temple no one, not even God calling her name. At home she watched Days of Our Lives while ironing... Read more »
“Is it true?” I ask her. “Would you really kill yourself if Owen left you?” She nods solemnly. I fight the urge to call the police, her father, my husband.
When he didn’t answer, Ida took her cart and gently, just a touch really, pushed it against the back of his knees. It was barely a tap. But the shmendrick started screaming. "What’s wrong with you, you crazy old woman?!”
