Women’s Roundtable: Passover, Fashion and Piety
In this edition of the Women’s Roundtable podcast, a co-production of the Forward’s Sisterhood blog and Lilith magazine, panelists weigh in on what fashion has to say about piety, and they take a look at how feminist Passover rituals have evolved. Lilith editor Susan Weidman Schneider, Lilith associate editor Sonia Isard and Sisterhood contributor Debra Nussbaum Cohen join Sisterhood editor Gabrielle Birkner for the discussion.
•Read Elana Maryles Sztokman’s “The Case Against the Sheitel”
•Read Michael Broyde’s response, “The Case for the Sheitel”
•Read Elana Maryles Sztokman’s “On Purim Wigs, ‘Modesty,’ and Rabbi Broyde’s Defense of the Sheitel”
This program was engineered by Meredith Ganzman and produced by Nate Lavey.
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