Meet Me at Sinai
'Who Wants to Sit and Watch Without a Voice?'
Rabbi Lisa Gelber remembers being the sole girl to lay tefillin in Hebrew school.
'The Lone Feminist Voice'
Elana Sztokman discusses the need for Jewish feminists to speak out in order to find a community.
Inheriting a Tradition That Doesn't Want Me
Princeton University student Maya Rosen talks about overcoming the sexism of Talmudic sages.
'Because I Didn’t Count, I Counted Myself Out of Judaism'
Long-time activist and founding editor of Ms. magazine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, talks about her estrangement from Judaism and how she found her way back.
'Mommy, Can Men Be Rabbis?'
Rabbi Daniel Brenner, chief of education and program for Moving Traditions, remembers his initial confusion over women’s roles in Judaism
Joy Ladin On Gendered Mitzvot
Joy Ladin, author of “Through the Door of Life A Jewish Journey between Genders. ” discusses gender equality as an authentically Jewish value.*
Elissa Strauss On Studying the Talmud While Female
Forward columnist Elissa Strauss talks about connecting to the Talmud for the first time.
Nancy Kaufman On (Not) Reading from the Torah
Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, discusses not being allowed to lein for her bat mitzvah.