When I light candles on Shabbat, using the same candlesticks that my ancestors lit over 100 years prior, I feel connected to everyone who has come before me.

Learning about the Women of the Wall made me realize that my discomfort at the Kotel was part of a larger, ongoing struggle for religious equity. 

Nechama Leibowitz revolutionized the way Torah is studied and played a crucial role in shaping contemporary approaches to scripture.

In some ways this “identity revolution” introduces a new type of social order.

The definition of patrilineal is “based on relationship to the father” which means my Judaism is…complicated.  

Connected by a visceral understanding of one another, queer Jews are able to widen each other’s understanding of Judaism.

“The holiday season” may sound more progressive than “the Christmas season,” but it ignores the fact that the most important Jewish holiday season is usually over by late October.

Yet at the moment when her humanity was threatened the most, Basman Ben-Hayim turned to art.

I feel most sure of my gender identity and presentation when it melds with my Jewish cultural identity.

After that initial Zoom bat mitzvah, it became clear that my own celebration would look the same.

Aunt Barbara gave me the opportunity to forge my own Jewish identity, with the help of a simple, silver, Star of David.

I was dubbed “femenistit masricha,” a smelly feminist, on the first day of seventh grade. I kind of liked it. 

I hadn’t thought much at all about why I engaged with Judaism—or even why I was Jewish beyond having been born that way.

Feminism does not require that all women are the same and should react in the same manner to misogyny.