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Jun 21, 2026, 11:07 PM

What We Do Matters More: Some Closing Thoughts

Over more than a decade of listening to women rabbis, I have come to appreciate a deceptively simple truth: what we say matters, but what we do matters more. As the rabbis taught, "It is not study that is most...

Jun 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

The Conversation Liberal Parents Still Aren’t Having With Their Sons

There are mixed reviews of the UFC spectacle that took place on the White House south lawn for the President’s eightieth birthday. And then there are altogether oblivious reviews of the event even if they come from a loving...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 5, 2026, 7:46 AM

Wider Lessons of Gay Pride Month: MEeting the “Enemy”

Israel started its Gay Pride Month celebrations yesterday with Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade. Tel Aviv's march – the largest in the Middle East – will take place next Friday (June 12). Whether we "agree" or not with homosexuality, there’s...

Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein

Jun 3, 2026, 9:09 PM

Writing about Giving Birth

Years ago, I ran into a classmate whom I hadn’t seen for years. I asked her how she was, and she replied, “You won’t believe it—I gave birth a week ago.” I complimented her for her slim figure. She...

May 30, 2026, 10:13 AM

Gender-Rich and Gender-Poor Languages

There is more than one road to Dublin. Different societies can move in different linguistic directions and still converge on the same human values. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Poetess and Avtorka Languages evolve. But they do not always evolve in the same direction — even when societies claim to pursue the same values. Consider English. Once upon a time, feminine professional forms were common: poetess authoress doctoress actress Today, many...

May 15, 2026, 8:34 PM

Just Say No To Rape Culture and LGBTQ Exploitation

The Jewish lesbian feminist writer Muriel Rukeyser once asked, "What would happen if a woman told the truth about her life?" Her answer, "The world would split apart." Buckle up. We're in for some uncomfortable truth-telling. Like many of you...

May 14, 2026, 6:17 AM

A silence still heard

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By now, one has either heard of the extensive sexual violence committed against women in Israel by Hamas, or one has chosen to live under the most apathetic rock. In the seemingly never ending saga of shedding light on...

Gordon Louis Aronoff

May 13, 2026, 9:38 PM

The Jewish Ghetto Redux

The Munkács ghetto in Hungary in April 1944. Courtesy of Yad Vashem (https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/jews-of-hungary-during-the-holocaust.html)

For much of the Medieval period, Jews in the West were subject to compulsory segregation, confined to urban ghettos in order to isolate, control, and monitor them. This segregation was justified as a form of moral protection for the...

May 12, 2026, 2:55 PM

The Aguna Crisis Isn’t About Divorce

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In this post analyzing complex layers of an issue in our community, and calling for nuance, I’m going to start with an absolute: The get is not, and should never be, a bargaining chip. Full stop. A get-refuser needs to give...

May 12, 2026, 11:32 AM

Flatbush Girl and the Problem with Neo-Conservative Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy is not merely a Brooklyn neighbourhood of sheitels and babkas — it is a system of obligation (Josh Wilburne, Unsplash).

A righteous cause does not sanctify every tactic. Agunos deserve justice, but Orthodox women’s bodies should not become weapons in someone else’s revolution.

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