Reclaiming Kaddish as a woman

In the Jewish world in which I was schooled – the Jewish world in which my father raised me – girls and women did not say Kaddish.

A case for working moms

Many women don’t have the pleasure of choice when it comes to receiving an education or working outside the home. For those of us that do, I feel we’re obliged to use our skills and education, rather than hiding behind the weight of domestic commitments.

Your daily spiel for Wednesday, March 29

In today’s spiel: Rabbi says serving in IDF makes women “unmarriageable,” Bob Dylan to accept Nobel Prize for literature and the Bey Hive creates the Passover “Beyonceder.”

Rabbinic restrictions reveal impulse to make women dependent

Restrictions against women are advocated under the guise of resisting dangerous, even degenerate, trends in secular culture. In actuality, such constrictions mesh with the worst impulses in secular culture: to control a woman’s destiny and remove her agency.

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