When the feminist "ally" is also a sexual predator
Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first American woman to become a rabbi, wrote in today's Forward that she is "heartbroken" to discover that the...
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The sting of, "Well, what are you DOING now?"
"Well what are you doing NOW?" Last week I shared publicly for the first time that I'm not in rabbinical school anymore. I actually left...
"Is it abuse or is the guy just an a**hole?"
This text is the introduction I wrote to a chapter about Gender Abuse in my upcoming book on sexual abuse in the Jewish community. I...
Excuse me while I have a post-traumatic-stress event about mikveh
TW: I will be offending practicing orthodox Jews. If this is you, maybe don't read this. ****** ****** ****** I just saw a flier for an...
Women's voices are needed more urgently than ever
It felt like forever when I was standing at the crosswalk near my home waiting for the light to turn red. I pressed the button. I watched...
Farewell, Mr. Gnatt. Thank you for the music.
Mr. Moshe Gnatt, my childhood music teacher, died yesterday. He was the music teacher at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, both in elementary and...
Watching the sunset, thinking about my friend Chaya, and doing nothing
As I took a walk to see the sunset over the Mediterranean Sea in Yaffo tonight, I was thinking about my friend Chaya who died last week....
Shimon Peres, Eliezer Stern, and other tales of sexual assault in Israeli corridors of power
This has been a week of revelations about sexual harassment in high-powered Israeli culture. First up: Colette Avital, who has often been...
Fatal FAIL: The police saw Gabby Petito as a “mental health” problem instead of a victim of violence
Now that the FBI has finally issued an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie following the murder of his fiancé Gabby Petito, we can say one...
Reflections on the women of Afghanistan
I would like to talk about what's going in Afghanistan. Because, even though we have more 'local' stories to worry about, like covid and...
About that Unorthodox Netflix series everyone is talking about
I didn't watch the Netflix show itself, just the dozens of angry FB posts appearing on my feed this morning, almost exclusively from...
Reconsidering Britney Spears
I’ve thought a lot about Britney Spears over the years. Her name even appears in the title of the first essay in my book, Conversations...
That time a doctor sat on a pregnant woman and then she died
[Trigger warning: Violence against women] Karin Lalush (in the photo to the right), a 31-year-old pregnant woman, died last week during...
On bodies, Beyoncé, and being from Brooklyn: A Jewish girl faces her racist past
I wrote this essay in May 2020 in the middle of corona lockdown, when I was watching a lot of Netflix and doing a lot of reflecting about...
I tried to stop focusing on my weight. It didn’t go well.
[I wrote this post in April 2021] When I decided to go on a three-week health retreat to a place called “House of Healing” up in Israel’s...
What happened when my daughter told me she's pregnant
[I wrote this essay in December 2020 but was very hesitant about publishing.... My daughter has since given birth thank God to amazing...
I'm off to a health retreat by myself. Indulgence? No, urgent self-care
The ride up to the northern Galilee offered my eyes a generous quench of color. Lush green mountains carpeted with purple sage, yellow...
I'm taking singing lessons. This is what I discovered about my voice, Judaism, and women's lives.
This past year, I decided to start taking singing lessons. It is something I have wanted to do since I was a kid. That and take drum...
I used to crochet yarmulkas for boys. Now I'm crocheting stuff for myself. Here's what I've learned.
I started to crochet again. It’s different this time around, since I stopped 15 or 20 years ago. Back then, I was pretty much crocheting...
When buying a gift for a man is a study in masculinity
This week was my husband’s birthday, so I decided to buy him a gift. In pre-Corona days, I hated shopping, but after a year of hunkering...
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