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Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.
Why investigating sexual harassment matters.
“They say I was grieving my loss as the only righteous woman; that sizzles my bones, as if I bought into that scathing myth we force feed our girls, that womanhood is scarce and to be monopolized.”
Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines
Sewing together fashion from other places and times to express a history of many roots.
For young working-class Jews stuck in abusive living situations, ritual observance can become difficult or impossible – a struggle often erased in American Jewish communities, where classism and assumptions of wealth pervade.
Our day of atonement is Judaism’s built-in ritual for calling ourselves in.
Shira had been texting her best friend for a long time. Maybe this will be forever, she thought. This imperfect, one-sided conversation. The world is built on longing, she remembered as she pulled one end of the gum out of her mouth, stretched it out, and stuck the end back in and pulled to make a loop.
Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.
Activists from the Workers Circle College Network are organizing a new campaign in the ongoing struggle for climate justice.