#jewishwomen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jewishwomen, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of ffederal #humanities #grants, including to several #Jewish projects, was #unlawful and #unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District #Judge #ColleenMcMahon called out the agency created by #President #DonaldTrump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including #Holocaust #research.
“At a time when the specter of #antisemitism has reemerged from the shadows, for our Government to deem a project about #Jewishwomen disfavored because it centered on ‘Jewish cultures’ and ‘female’ voices is deeply troubling,” wrote #McMahon, who was appointed by President #BillClinton in 1998. She was referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish #women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.”
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"The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of ffederal #humanities #grants, including to several #Jewish projects, was #unlawful and #unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District #Judge #ColleenMcMahon called out the agency created by #President #DonaldTrump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including #Holocaust #research.
“At a time when the specter of #antisemitism has reemerged from the shadows, for our Government to deem a project about #Jewishwomen disfavored because it centered on ‘Jewish cultures’ and ‘female’ voices is deeply troubling,” wrote #McMahon, who was appointed by President #BillClinton in 1998. She was referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish #women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.”
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"The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of ffederal #humanities #grants, including to several #Jewish projects, was #unlawful and #unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District #Judge #ColleenMcMahon called out the agency created by #President #DonaldTrump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including #Holocaust #research.
“At a time when the specter of #antisemitism has reemerged from the shadows, for our Government to deem a project about #Jewishwomen disfavored because it centered on ‘Jewish cultures’ and ‘female’ voices is deeply troubling,” wrote #McMahon, who was appointed by President #BillClinton in 1998. She was referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish #women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.”
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"The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of ffederal #humanities #grants, including to several #Jewish projects, was #unlawful and #unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District #Judge #ColleenMcMahon called out the agency created by #President #DonaldTrump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including #Holocaust #research.
“At a time when the specter of #antisemitism has reemerged from the shadows, for our Government to deem a project about #Jewishwomen disfavored because it centered on ‘Jewish cultures’ and ‘female’ voices is deeply troubling,” wrote #McMahon, who was appointed by President #BillClinton in 1998. She was referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish #women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.”
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"The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation last year of the majority of ffederal #humanities #grants, including to several #Jewish projects, was #unlawful and #unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In her 143-page ruling, U.S. District #Judge #ColleenMcMahon called out the agency created by #President #DonaldTrump specifically for its targeting of Jewish projects, including #Holocaust #research.
“At a time when the specter of #antisemitism has reemerged from the shadows, for our Government to deem a project about #Jewishwomen disfavored because it centered on ‘Jewish cultures’ and ‘female’ voices is deeply troubling,” wrote #McMahon, who was appointed by President #BillClinton in 1998. She was referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish #women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.”
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"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
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"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
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"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
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"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
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"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/32817/ Hadassah Leaders Lobby for US-Israel Relationship, Women’s Health #CapitolHill #Hadassah #Health #Israel #IsraelAdvocacy #JamieRaskin #JewishAdvocacy #JewishWomen #Lobbying #LocalNews #USIsrael #Women'sHealth
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Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.
On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.
Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub
All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff
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Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.
On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.
Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub
All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff
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Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.
On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.
Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub
All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff
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Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.
On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.
Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub
All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff
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Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.
On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.
Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub
All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff
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Read Reboot Article: https://rebooting.com/article/jewish-lore/
Jewish Lore Reactions Link: https://www.miriamanzovin.com/jewish-lore-reactions
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For our friends in the UK:
HOME, EXILE AND FOOD (IN-PERSON)
WITH LINDA DANGOOR
TUESDAY 24 MARCH, 7:30 pm
at Holland Park Synagogue, 8 St James's Gardens, W11 4RPFrom the Tigris to the Thames is Linda Dangoor's second book. It is a tapestry, part memoir and part cookbook, where she interweaves recipes with personal reflections on the idea of home and belonging.
Join us for an evening of stimulating conversation and delicious food. Lyn Julius of Harif will be interviewing Linda. Signed books will be on sale. We will enjoy a oriental buffet supper prepared by Linda herself.
Get the Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-the-tigris-to-the-thames-flavours-of-a-journey-linda-dangoor/1d1c8407b49d1849
Event Registration Required.
More info: https://www.harif.org/event/from-the-tigris-to-the-thames-in-person/
#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #JewishHistory #JewishWomen #JewishFood
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RACHEL: A LIFE IN A TURBULENT CENTURY, WITH STELLA DARVEY JOORY
TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY
7:00 pm UK/ 11:00 am PT/ 2:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm Europe / 9:00 pm IsraelA new book called Rachel tells the story of the author’s mother, a girl born in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, who in 1927 wins a scholarship to study in Versailles to become a teacher with the Alliance Israélite Universelle. Posted to Baghdad, she meets Victor, a young man from a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family, fresh from years of study & work in Germany.
The book follows their relationship against the backdrop of the Holocaust & the upheavals of the 20th century.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89403174068?pwd=z63Rsiqpiql1K5qR6IPxgA2i96CEFb.1
Meeting ID: 894 0317 4068
Passcode: JooryIMPORTANT: Only participants identified by name, and not 'Ipad' or 'Wonderwoman', willl be admitted. The event will be recorded.
Get the Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/rachel-a-life-in-a-turbulent-century-stella-darvey-joory/8c6da116bd44668b
Event Info: https://www.harif.org/event/rachel-a-life-in-a-turbulent-century-2/
#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishHistory #JewishWomen #MENA #Sephardi #Mizrahi
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"The story of Sarah and Hagar is often told as a tale of rivalry and cruelty—but a closer look reveals a far richer story, hinting at a complex, powerful, and spiritually resonant relationship between two extraordinary women.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the story through text study, discussion, and writing prompts, uncovering new possibilities for understanding female relationships, motherhood, and feminine archetypes. Together, we’ll re-examine these matriarchs to discover strength, wisdom, and inspiration for our own lives."Link: https://ritualwell.org/event/sarah-and-hagar-uncovering-feminine-strength-and-wisdom/2026-03-24/
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From Hadran: Together, we can make the study of the Talmud in 2026 more accessible, inspiring, and unifying than ever before.
Join or Donate Here: https://hadran.org.il/friends/
Thank you for being part of our learning family.
With appreciation, Rabbanit Michelle Farber and the Hadran Team
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Women's League for Conservative Judaism has a regular online prayer service for saying Kaddish and Mishaberach.
View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WLCJ1
#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishWomen #Tefilah #Kaddish #Mishaberach
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Women's League for Conservative Judaism has a regular online prayer service for saying Kaddish and Mishaberach.
View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WLCJ1
#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishWomen #Tefilah #Kaddish #Mishaberach
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Women's League for Conservative Judaism has a regular online prayer service for saying Kaddish and Mishaberach.
View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WLCJ1
#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishWomen #Tefilah #Kaddish #Mishaberach
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From Aleph and Rose Espinola:
This project consists of an online, multimedia exhibit and chapbook, curated by Rose Espinola with artworks from Ayeola Omolara Kaplan.The ceremony will include storytelling and intention-setting. The artist and author will also answer participant questions.
All are invited to join; the experiences of Jewish people of color will be centered.
A Zoom link will be shared after registered. You may connect by computer, the phone app, or through a dial-in phone number.
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/art-chapbook-ceremony/
View samples from the exhibit: https://roseespinola.com/jewish-postpartum/
#Mazeldon #Jewiniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #judaism #TikkunOlam #JewishWomen #JewsOfColor #JewishArt
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From Aleph and Rose Espinola:
This project consists of an online, multimedia exhibit and chapbook, curated by Rose Espinola with artworks from Ayeola Omolara Kaplan.The ceremony will include storytelling and intention-setting. The artist and author will also answer participant questions.
All are invited to join; the experiences of Jewish people of color will be centered.
A Zoom link will be shared after registered. You may connect by computer, the phone app, or through a dial-in phone number.
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/art-chapbook-ceremony/
View samples from the exhibit: https://roseespinola.com/jewish-postpartum/
#Mazeldon #Jewiniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #judaism #TikkunOlam #JewishWomen #JewsOfColor #JewishArt
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Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look
By Luke Tress June 14, 2024"...The issue of abandonment was widespread in the immigrant world of early 1900s New York, common enough that well-known psychics...specialized in divining the whereabouts of missing men. Reasons for leaving families varied, but the most common appeared to be other women. Other reasons recorded by the bureau include criminality, “influence of bad friends,” “Broadway high life,” “to evade military service” and “did not like Baltimore.” Sometimes women left their husbands due to “cruelty” or “barbarity,” a euphemism for domestic violence...
A common denominator among all the cases: the hardship of arriving in a new country. Many immigrants lived in cramped tenement apartments with their families, working long hours, six days a week, and divorce was expensive..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishHistory #Agunah #JewishWomen #Agunot
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Makom B'Yachad
More info: https://www.wlcj.org/resources/makom-byachad/
(and presumably links that work...)
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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – 1944)
She was the wife of Wyatt Earp the famed Old West lawman. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. She left Behan, who was nearly twice her age, in 1881, before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. She returned to San Francisco in March 1882 and was joined that fall by Wyatt, with whom she remained for 46 years until his death in 1929. Josephine Earp had his body cremated and buried him in the Marcus family plot in a Jewish cemetery
Josephine Marcus was born in New York to a Jewish family. They moved to San Francisco, where she attended dance school as a girl. She ran away as a young teen traveling to Arizona looking for adventure. Sadie kept this period of her life a secret but there js evidence that she may have been forced to work as a prostitute under the name Sadie Mansfield. She described this period as 'A bad dream'.
The book I Married Wyatt Earp (1967), is based on a manuscript allegedly written in part by her.
#josephineearp #sadieearp #josephinemarcus #wyattearp #imarriedwyattearp #jewishamericans #jewishlife #jewishwomeninhistory #jewishwomen
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From Lilith:
Each month, Jewish tradition gives us the opportunity to pause, reflect, and set intentions through the celebration of Rosh Chodesh, which marks the arrival of the New Moon.This week, we welcome the Hebrew month of Iyar alongside the secular month of May. As this new month begins, we feel ourselves beginning to thaw—emerging from a winter of discouraging, fear-inducing news headlines and turning once again toward community, care, and connection.
Lilith invites you to seek renewal with us this weekend—in the moon, in each other, and in the pages of independent Jewish feminist journalism.
Read more: https://lilith.org/
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Due to all the chaos in the US right now, there is more need than ever for mutual aid to help Jewish LGBTQ folks and Disabled Jews make it, as their programs for medical care and even survival are cut out from under them. Some need to relocate to get the care they need.
Even small donations can help - and you don't have to join the Chevra to give tzedakah to Miriams Wellspring (or any other Chevra program).
Link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4P32EZSC9Q2MS
For more info about the Chevra, visit our temp page at: https://ahavahariel.com/chevra-hachachamot We are a 501c3 nonprofit, and a certified Paypal charity. Thank you for your help!
Shalom!
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Women's League of Conservative Judaism weekly Makom B'Yachad
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/630830287#success
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #JewishWomen #Tefilah #TikkunOlam #Judaism #Jewish
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It’s a Christian Saint’s Day. It worships commercialization. And it definitely objectifies women. It’s time to say dayenu to embracing the golden calf of heart-shaped chocolate boxes filled with mediocre heart-shaped chocolate and instead find new ways to spend Valentine’s Day. Here are some alternatives.
Read the article: https://lilith.org/2018/02/7-jewish-feminist-things-to-do-instead-of-valentines-day/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #JewishWomen #TikkunOlam
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"Since childhood, Julie Morgenlender has been living with chronic illness. From trying to prove to doctors it wasn’t all in her head, to fighting with insurance to cover essential medical treatments, to curtailing her career, Morgenlender has lived through it all. Enlightening and powerful, The Things We Don’t Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, chronicles some of her experiences alongside essays from a diverse group of people from around the world living with chronic illness. Here, Morgenlender talks to Hanna R. Neier about finding community, medical gender bias, and how a little Jewish compassion can go a long way."
Order the Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-things-we-don-t-say-an-anthology-of-chronic-illness-truths-julie-morgenlender/15360864
Read the Article: https://lilith.org/2021/06/the-things-we-dont-say-an-interview-with-julie-morgenlender/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #TikkunOlam #JewishWomen
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"In our culture that conflates value and ability, it is easy to find yourself somewhere along the post-viral spectrum. It is easy to push, or be pushed, or (more likely) some combination of the two, into ignoring your body, assigning some valence of alternate logic to your racing heart, low cortisol, persistent fatigue, or evergreen throat pain.
https://lilith.org/articles/the-rest-of-my-life-long-covids-poignant-reminders/
“I just need to find more balance,” you tell yourself while driving to a full time job, putting your makeup on at red lights, the week’s readings playing through your bluetooth on 1.5x speed. “I just need to figure out which supplements to take,”
you quip to the acupuncturist, your PCP, dietician, therapist, checkout person at Perelandra Natural Foods. “I just need to rest,” you say only to yourself, hoping that someone might write you a permission slip."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #LilithMagazine #JewishWomen
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Shlain and Goldberg have spent the past few years tracing history through the rings of massive, reclaimed tree rings. As the Jewish festival of the trees Tu BiShvat approaches, they reflected on other histories trees could have witnessed, etching the historical and contemporary questions that have catalyzed the quest for knowledge into the tree rings.
Their pieces are exhibited in Getty’s PST Art & Science Collide exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology which has special events on Feb 2. Their art will also be featured during Frieze Art Fair.
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From Lilith's archive:
A New Set of Rituals for Abortion and Pregnancy Loss
Naima Hirsch Gelman
February 1, 2024Read the article: https://lilith.org/2024/02/a-new-set-of-rituals-for-abortion-and-pregnancy-loss/
"There is a modern legend that in the early days of women’s ordination as rabbis, a rabbinical school professor stood up and said: “Judaism has a bracha for every single human experience we undergo.” The women in the room—knowing the incredulity of that statement—laughed. Because while it’s true that while Judaism has blessings for after using the bathroom or for hearing thunder, we don’t have that kind of ritual content for the myriad of experiences specific to women..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #JewishWomen #Judaism #Jewish
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started a #Wikipedia article on #Chicago pianist Rae Bernstein Best (1904-1999), soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1920s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Bernstein @WikiWomeninRed @Wikimedians_LA #Womeninmusic #Jewishwomen #Piano
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A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights, By Julia Gergely July 8, 2024
"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879
...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault & trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef & come out as lesbian:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140
“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #CrownHeights #Jewish #Judaism #JewishFood
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From Ritual Well:
Threading Stones - An Elul Tradition
July 2 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm EDT
Recurring Event - Tuesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2024
Course fee is $250
Prepare yourself for Elul and the High Holy Days by learning an ancient tradition, rarely taught by those who have practice in this tradition.For generations, Jewish women in Eastern Europe utilized threads to measure cemeteries and graves. These threads were used to create special soul candles known as neshome likht, or sometimes as protective bands worn on wrists, ankles, or necks. Typically overseen by skilled women called feldmesterins, activities such as feldmestn (cemetery measuring) and kneytlekh leygn (laying wicks) were most prevalent during Elul to prepare soul candles for Yom Kippur.
See a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5h0E7OSYg
Register here: https://ritualwell.org/event/threading-stones-an-elul-tradition/2024-07-02/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #JewishHistory #Jewish #Judaism #Elul #Yiddish
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From Ritual Well:
We're delighted that poet Hila Ratzabi will bring forward the wisdom of another important Jewish woman: Etty Hillesum, whose life was cut too soon, too short. Her gentle writings, meaningful and thought-provoking, were translated to multiple languages, and are shared worldwide as a source of teaching, comfort and endurance.Read the Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/etty-hillesum-an-interrupted-life-and-letters-from-westerbork-etty-hillesum/630427I did a long commentary on this book and I recommend it highly. It is a blaring warning siren for our time.
Register for the event:
https://ritualwell.org/event/spiritual-resilience-in-a-time-of-war-inspired-by-etty-hillesum/2024-07-10/#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #WWII #Holocaust #JewishHistory #Jewish
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In Jerusalem, a unique hotel offers respite for women who have experienced stillbirth, By Deborah Danan June 25, 2024
"...The center is operated by Yad Sarah, Israel’s largest volunteer organization, and housed on the sixth floor of its Yirmiyahu 33 Rehabilitation and Wellness Hotel at the entrance to Jerusalem, the country’s only fully accessible hotel for people with disabilities. Nightly stays are heavily subsidized and couples pay 350 NIS ($93) per night, which they can then claim back from their health insurance for up to four nights. Since its opening last July, the center has hosted 470 couples, most of whom suffered stillbirths..."
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The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News For Jews, by Susan Weidman Schneider June 12, 1990
Yes, 1990.
"...The interests of Jews are threatened now because...Jews in particular have a great deal to lose if the wall separating church and state develops any fractures.Jewish law on abortion posits that the life of the mother takes precedence over that of the unborn child. According to halacha...the fetus is potential life only, and its claims are secondary to those of the woman. Halacha regards a fetus as having no...life of its own; life does not begin until birth, and aborting a pregnancy...is not considered murder..."
https://lilith.org/articles/the-anti-choice-movement-bad-news-for-jews/
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Wisdom from the Original Jane Collective by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler February 22, 2023Read about these pioneering women working with the underground railroad for abortion services: https://lilith.org/2023/02/wisdom-from-the-original-jane-collective/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Abortion #WomensRights #JewishWomen #JewishHistory #ReligiousFreedom
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From Ariele Mortkowitz at SVIVAH:
"...This week I went...to attend a hearing on conflict-related sexual violence & to watch a special screening of the 10/7 documentary, “Screams Before Silence.”
...It’s not enough to just be sad or angry. ...We owe it to all women, everywhere and anywhere women are used as a tool of war. We have to speak up for them. Because they are us. Women victimized in conflict are targeted because they are women. And women are still being victimized today, right now. In Gaza & in so many places around the globe. This isn’t about politics. This is about women standing up for women, for ourselves. To not permit the world to use and abuse women as a tool of war...
So I’m going to ask you to lean in. I will, too. But we have to do something. It’s hard to feel like there’s any way to be useful, but we just have to find something & do it. Some (very) small suggestions..."
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102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is Vogue Germany’s latest cover model
By Philissa Cramer June 20, 2024"...About the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, and the spike in antisemitic incidents amid the Israel-Hamas War, Friedländer told the magazine, “I am appalled.”
Friedländer was born and raised in Berlin and hid there after the Nazis rose to power and began deporting and murdering Jews. She was apprehended in April 1944 and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she remained until its liberation a year later. Her entire family had been murdered..."
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Jews are in a moment of broken illusions, but we’re stronger than we think, by Dr. Mijal Bitton June 19, 2024
"...The tension between the idyllic departure and the actual journey [in this week's parashat] mirrors our current experience. We live with nostalgia for eras in which everything was supposedly fine, ignoring the lived experiences of our ancestors. Many of us live with the pain that even today our reality is far from what we want. Almost daily since Oct. 7 I feel visceral pain from my broken illusions, illusions that the world had rid itself of much of its antisemitic hatred, illusions that the evils perpetrated against defenseless Jews were somehow a thing of the past. Today we live with the pain of being in the wilderness — knowing there is a promised land, but stuck wandering in the dense thickets of uncertainty..."
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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87, By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 14, 2024
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One of the most Jewish elections in the country is in Northern Virginia, By Ron Kampeas June 10, 2024
"...Filler-Corn invoked a Jewish idea, tikkun olam, or repairing the world, that has become commonplace among Jewish Democrats. “Tikkun olam is the guiding principle in my life, my family and my politics, and it’s a big part of why I’m running for Congress,” she said. “I believe our world and our nation and its democracy needs repair.”
Asked why they have been upfront with their Jewish identities while campaigning, both Helmer and Filler-Corn identified a factor darker than the pride they express in their heritage: personal experience with antisemitism..."
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From Lilith Magazine:
Fiction: Disillusionment on the Eve of Revolt/Birth, by Diana Fenves
Second place, Lilith 2024 Fiction Contest July 29, 2024Read the story here: https://lilith.org/articles/fiction-disillusionment-on-the-eve-of-revolt-birth/
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