Julie R. Enszer
By Julie R. Enszer
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Life ‘Oedipus In Brooklyn And Other Stories’: Dark Themes And Complex Women
Looking for rich, complicated women in fiction to match the rich, complicated women in your life? In search of women whose lives and loves defy usual narratives? Pick up Blume Lempel’s “Oedipus In Brooklyn And Other Stories” (Mandel Vilar Press/Dryad Press, 2016), just released in English translated from Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron…
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Life Lilith Remains A Powerful Inspiration For Jewish Feminists
Lilith, the first partner of Adam who rejected the subservient role that Adam and God tried to foist upon her, has been an inspiration for feminists for generations. As I was beginning my own young vocalizations and learning the power of naming things in my world, Judith Plaskow re-envisioned the traditional tale of Lilith in…
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Life Revisiting the Sheva Berakhot, Or Seven Blessings on Marriage
1. Blessed art Thou, O L-rd our G-d, King of the universe who hast created the fruit of the vine. In my twenties, when weddings should have been ordinary, I avoided them. Back in the 1990s, marriage, to me, was an institution of derision, exclusive of queers and anachronistic for women. Weddings were an artifice,…
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