The Book of Ruth: A story about famine offers a powerful lesson for a pandemic
The story of Ruth at the heart of Shavuot has a striking relevance to our global pandemic: it begins with a natural disaster.
This Tisha B’Av, Focus On Jewish Agency, Not Jewish Passivity
We would be foolish to ignore the parallels between the way Jewish leaders exercised agency then and today.
I’m a Sephardic Latina With An Intersectional Identity. That’s Why I Oppose The Women’s March.
My intersectional experience as a feminist Latina immigrant from Argentina and a Sephardi Jew led me to abstain from the current Women’s March
Julia Salazar’s Defenders Reveal The Limits Of Identity Politics
Salazar’s story demands that we explore the way in which we approach identity: is it malleable or essential, exclusive and inherited?
‘And He Shall Rule Over You’: The Genesis of #MeToo
The Bible suggests that the oppression of women is a curse — one that must be fought.
Looking Beyond Michelle Obama and Angela Merkel
It’s easy to point fingers at explicitly sexist societies like Saudi Arabia or the ultra-Orthodox. Mijal Bitton argues we should look at our own structural gender inequity.