As the daughter of two Iranian immigrants, I am compelled to take advantage of the opportunities and privileges my mother, aunts, and grandmothers were deprived of.
The Jewish-American literary canon is not only dismissive of women but hostile to them, and this is insidious and damaging to the narrative we tell as Jews and women.
Watching the Hallmark movie Eight Gifts of Hanukkah,I felt like I could relate spiritually to a Jewish character portrayed in mainstream media for the first time.