Type Encyclopedia Article Author Biography Oral History Podcast We Celebrate Section Home Lesson Plan Power Couples Women of Valor (-) Blog Collection Search Results November 7, 2019 Jenny Slate's "Stage Fright" Larisa Klebe Have you seen Jenny Slate's new Netflix special, Stage Fright? Topics: Television, Comedy https://jwa.org/blog/jenny-slates-stage-fright November 6, 2019 My Time on the Line Neima Fax ENFP. Extraversion, intuition, feeling, perception. Four words that, according to the Myers-Briggs personality test, define me as a person. Topics: Summer Camps, Family, Philosophy https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/dedicated-grandma-el November 5, 2019 In Memory of Bee Love Slater Maddie Solomon Bee Love Slater was the eighteenth transgender person murdered in the US this year. Topics: LGBTQIA Rights https://jwa.org/blog/memory-bee-love-slater November 4, 2019 In the Image of God? Mica Maltzman When I was younger, around the time of my consecration, my vision of God was simple. Topics: Jewish Education, Judaism-Reform, Theology https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/image-god October 31, 2019 Not Just Potatoes: Legacies of Yiddish Vegetarianism Sophie Hurwitz In the early 1900s, a surprising movement emerged in the Yiddish-speaking Jewish diaspora: radical vegetarianism. Topics: Food https://jwa.org/blog/not-just-potatoes-legacies-yiddish-vegetarianism October 30, 2019 On the Sanctity of My Tefillin Hannah Landau For two hours a day, three days a week, the Orthodox rabbi led us through the strict and meticulous process of tefillin-making. Topics: Summer Camps, Prayer https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/sanctity-my-tefillin October 29, 2019 Just a Small-Town Curl Jennifer Greenberg I have always struggled to accept my curls. Topics: Jewish History https://jwa.org/blog/just-small-town-curl October 28, 2019 The Orange on the Seder Plate Ellanora Lerner There are a few stories that you may have heard about the orange on the seder plate. Topics: LGBTQIA Rights, Passover https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/orange-seder-plate October 25, 2019 “Too Loud” and "Too Jewish": Standing up for Gun Control Shoshanna Hemley We were at a school open mic about gun control in the weeks following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting. Topics: Activism, Schools https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/too-loud-and-too-jewish-standing-gun-control October 25, 2019 How to Heal: The One-Year Anniversary of Pittsburgh Ilana Diamant This essay is for anyone who froze—whose mind went inward instead of outward, who didn’t leave their home for a bit, or who didn’t want to go home at all. Topics: Antisemitism https://jwa.org/blog/how-heal-one-year-anniversary-pittsburgh October 23, 2019 Leining: A Balancing Act Ellie Klibaner-Schiff Existing at the border between modern and traditional values often feels like teetering across a balance beam. Topics: Judaism-Orthodox, Synagogues/Temples https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/leining-balancing-act October 18, 2019 The Wall Between My Identities Sasha Azizi Rosenfeld I expected to feel emotion and attachment to the Kotel. However, despite the burning midday sun, my first visit left me cold. Topics: Women's Rights, Israel, Prayer https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/wall-between-my-identities October 17, 2019 Knocking on Harvard's Glass Ceiling Elana Spivack In 1962, Miriam Rykles applied to work in Harvard University’s physics department. This is her story. Topics: Education, Physics https://jwa.org/blog/knocking-harvards-glass-ceiling October 16, 2019 Prayers in Majdanek Isabel Hoffman Last March, as I prepared to visit Holocaust sites as part of my high school semester in Israel, I braced myself. Topics: Holocaust, Prayer https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/prayers-majdanek October 16, 2019 Feed Your Child Rachel Zients Schinderman Not having a bar mitzvah for my son felt like the kind thing to do. It felt Jewish. Topics: Family, Jewish Law https://jwa.org/blog/feed-your-child October 11, 2019 The Only Jewish Kid Maddy Pollack When I was in third grade, my teacher asked me to tell my class about the Jewish New Year. Topics: Schools, Rosh Hashanah, Spirituality and Religious Life https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/only-jewish-kid October 10, 2019 If I Am Not for Myself, Who Will be For Me? Hannah Kornblut White Jews benefit from the system of white supremacy, and are often complicit, until their Jewish identity is revealed. Topics: Activism, Holocaust, Politics and Government https://jwa.org/blog/if-i-am-not-myself-who-will-be-me October 7, 2019 Jewelry and Jewish Feminism Lila Goldstein Like everything we wear, our jewelry displays our tastes and preferences. On a deeper level, though, it also projects our values to the world. Topics: Fashion and Beauty, Spirituality and Religious Life https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/jewelry-and-jewish-feminism October 7, 2019 Yiddishes, Alive and Dead Sophie Hurwitz For many American Jews, Yiddish is the language of a mythicized shtetl, but today the language is still very much alive. Topics: Jewish History https://jwa.org/blog/yiddishes-alive-and-dead October 3, 2019 Revisiting Israel Elana Moscovitch Elana Moscovitch revisits Israel after living there as a child and makes new discoveries through her daughter's eyes. Topics: Israel, Palestine https://jwa.org/blog/revisiting-israel October 2, 2019 An Interview with Natasha Díaz about "Color Me In" Mikki Pugh JWA sat down with author Natasha Díaz to discuss her debut novel, Color Me In, one of our Book Club picks. Topics: Fiction https://jwa.org/blog/bookclub/interview-natasha-diaz-about-color-me September 25, 2019 One Year Later Steph Black One year after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony to Congress, in light of the High Holidays, what have we learned? Topics: Women's Rights, Yom Kippur https://jwa.org/blog/one-year-later September 24, 2019 High Holiday Poems Maia Evrona Exclusively for JWA, poet Maia Evrona shares two poems for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Topics: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Poetry https://jwa.org/blog/high-holiday-poems September 19, 2019 Reframing Rosh Hashanah Chaya Milchtein For those who grew up in abusive households, it can be hard to dissociate trauma from the High Holidays. https://jwa.org/blog/reframing-rosh-hashanah September 17, 2019 For Czarna Julie Zuckerman Author Julie Zuckerman memorializes the family she lost during the Holocaust in a letter to her aunt. https://jwa.org/blog/czarna Pagination Previous page … Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Current page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 … Next page
