Sarah Zell Young
By Sarah Zell Young
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Life Tackling the Gendered Language of Tisha B’Av Liturgy Through Textile
Tisha B’Av traditionally commemorates the destructions of the first (586 BCE) and second temples (69 CE) as well as a host of other tragic historical events. The first time I went to synagogue on Tisha B’Av at 20-years-old, I found the experience isolating: we are supposed to come together in community and sit silently, low…
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Life ‘A Woman of Valor, Who Will Find?’ Check Her Hair
Photograph courtesy of Sarah Zell Young After college, I became traditionally observant for the first time, taking on a chunk of religious obligations without really understanding them. Newly relocated to New York, I was new to graduate school and new to the study of Torah. I found a rabbi to teach me the ins and…
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