We Remember

Being a photographer is hard enough, and breaking down barriers of a male driven profession and world is even harder. Abigail Heyman was one photographer who did just that. Abby Heyman was a photographer with something to say, one who created work of consequence through brutally honest and personal photographs.  She wove her own identity—that of a woman growing up in a culture not always meant for women—into her photographs.

I, too, was a Midwesterner transposed to New York, trying to find my own way in the rich and heady dance scene. I knew Pearl Lang had come from Chicago, where she was raised in a cultured but poor Yiddish-speaking family. Her breathtaking career as a Graham dancer meant she had toured the world. And she often performed with her own company, the Pearl Lang Dance Theater, at the famed 92nd Street Y’s theater, where I went for performances by modern dance legends and for Fred Berk’s Wednesday night Israeli folk dancing. But now I was going to Hunter to see Lang’s “Shirah,” which she created in 1960.

Welcome to the Friday Social Media BliNtz-- it's like a media blitz, but tastier.

Here, on a virtual silver platter, are some current event noshes you might enjoy.

Today’s news brought the shocking report of Shulamith Firestone’s death, at age 67.

As our July 4th week comes to a close, we at JWA close the circle on our Celebrate Fiercely Independent Jewish Women

It was fitting that Gloria was born on Independence Day. She was a firecracker: sharp, witty, energetic.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to work with your mother and learn about her life and in doing so discover a completely different person?

When Nora Ephron was young, she wanted to be Dorothy Parker.

When I was young, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I still do.

Judaism is rooted in our people’s ability to tell a good story.

For women in the Orthodox Jewish community, domestic abuse is still too often suffered in silence.