Women are at the forefront of efforts to change the perception and reality of Jewish life in Germany. 

JWA chats with Samantha Perlman, a city councilor and mayoral candidate for Marlborough, Massachusetts about the Jewish women who inspired her to run for office, how she responds to pushback about her age and gender, and showing young people they can be drivers of change.

JWA talks to Gavi Weitzman, a multimedia artist based in Philadelphia whose work explores Judaism, the body, and identity.

JWA chats with author Jennifer Lang about her forthcoming book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature. 

JWA talks to author Sara Lippmann about suburbia as an irresistible setting for fiction, radical retellings of the Torah, and more. 

Add one of these graphic novels with badass female heroines to your summer reading list. 

My mother and I had always been close. But separate trips to Poland deepened our connection. 

Channeling my grandfather’s generous spirit, my non-Jewish mother agreed to become her synagogue’s co-president.

JWA chats with poet and rabbi Mónica Gomery about her newest poetry collection, Might Kindred. 

JWA chats with Sarah Meital Benjamin about her new short film Arava, which tells the story of two teenage best friends traveling through small-town Israel in search of redemption.