I'm one of the artists featured in the Lilith article. I was sent the links to T'fillin Barbie by one of my Chabad buddies in Crown Heights. At first I was ready to dismiss it as the usual bagels and lox lowest common denominator of Jewish humor. But seeing Barbie doing Daf Yomi made me laugh out loud and realized that I was not dealing with the usual crass stuff that passes for humor. I found Jen Taylor Friedman's work to be pretty wonderful.
Frankly, I had trouble with the the tone of the Lilith article. I don't assume that just because some aspects of Judaism evolved out of a partiarchal society that it makes them bad. Penises do not automatically make people boorish and stupid. Reflexively, bashing men is just as intolerant as assuming that women are somehow less than men because they don't have penises.
My daughter has grown up in a world where egalitarianism in shul and in life is a given. She, like her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother, has always owned Judaism in every aspect.
Women wear tallitot. Their bodies and their relationship to fabric is different than men's. The tallitot that women wear reflect that. Gamarnu.
I'm one of the artists featured in the Lilith article. I was sent the links to T'fillin Barbie by one of my Chabad buddies in Crown Heights. At first I was ready to dismiss it as the usual bagels and lox lowest common denominator of Jewish humor. But seeing Barbie doing Daf Yomi made me laugh out loud and realized that I was not dealing with the usual crass stuff that passes for humor. I found Jen Taylor Friedman's work to be pretty wonderful.
Frankly, I had trouble with the the tone of the Lilith article. I don't assume that just because some aspects of Judaism evolved out of a partiarchal society that it makes them bad. Penises do not automatically make people boorish and stupid. Reflexively, bashing men is just as intolerant as assuming that women are somehow less than men because they don't have penises.
My daughter has grown up in a world where egalitarianism in shul and in life is a given. She, like her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother, has always owned Judaism in every aspect.
Women wear tallitot. Their bodies and their relationship to fabric is different than men's. The tallitot that women wear reflect that. Gamarnu.