DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox
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Energetic activists and worriers tell you their plans. Plus…Rebecca Sive’s clues for educating voters how to “Make America Smart Again.”
“Last spring I found out that my father was not my biological father,” I told him, keeping the story as brief as possible.
“LOOK WHO IS HERE!” Zeide Stein exclaimed as I walked into the sukkah one afternoon. “It’s the upshern yingel!” It’s the boy who is about to get a haircut. In... Read more »
Meet a woman whose visionary philanthropy and signature humor have helped bring you social-change films, iconoclastic art, and Lilith magazine.
Your toothbrush, dental floss, soap, glasses, socks, stained T-shirts, 12 lipsticks, 3 rouges, 5 tubes of foundation, sunscreen, unopened deodorant. I kept the eye cream. I threw out a... Read more »
She knows the neighbors call on her because she is childless—an anomaly, a two-headed turtle in this enclave, where every woman’s accessory is a baby carriage. It is always Chana’s... Read more »
I LIVE PART-TIME IN RURAL MICHIGAN. While helping me pull weeds in the summer before the 2016 presidential election, a friend of mine, a non-college- educated white woman, told me... Read more »
WHAT I LEARNED FROM PALESTINIAN BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS ABOUT HOW TO SURVIVE “SURVIVING”
If I'm Andromeda bound on the cliff and Perseus is coming to stop the monster, I wish he'd get a move on.
An interview with Libby Copeland suggests that this means the end of family secrets.
NYC’s First Lady of Fish grew up in the legendary “appetizing” store. Then, she and a cousin took it over.
A swirl of aromas fills my nose the minute I start climbing the rickety spiral staircase: oniony... Read more »
Tillie Olsen wrote her important stories and essays in a tradition of Jewish radicalism that insists on the struggle for... Read more »
