Tag Archives: feminism
Sanctify (Veyakhel-Pekudei)
by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) God, that very exacting architect, tells us seven times What we need to build a Mishkan – The skins, the acacia wood, the stones The gold, the oils, the lapis lazuli – And … Continue reading
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Following the Lead of My Radical Foremothers
by Dina Ripsman Eylon (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada) The idea to start an academic journal on Jewish women came to me while researching the lives of Rachel Yanait Ben Zvi, Mania Shochat and Netiva Ben Yehuda for an article on women … Continue reading
Filed under Jewish writing, Judaism
Kallah Bereishis
by Jeanette Friedman (New Milford, NJ) On my 12th birthday I wasn’t standing in front of a Torah scroll to make a blessing but in a darkened sukkah with some friends and a birthday cake without candles. (There were no … Continue reading
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