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Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by [...]

On the day my husband Bert finally accepted that he was dying, we had a deeply emotional, unstintingly honest talk about what he wanted me to do when he was [...]

Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by [...]

I came of age as a feminist under the banner 'The Personal Is Political.' Launched in 1970 to counter a culture-wide assumption that our dissatisfactions were trivial, the slogan raised [...]

If you're in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that 'apartheid,' 'racist' and 'fascist' are three words you [...]

In Hebrew, ahavat Yisrael means 'love of one's fellow Jews.' But for many of the millions of Jews who define their Judaism in a nationalist as well as, or rather [...]

When I was a girl, my mother told me I must always wear clean panties in case I got hit by a bus. If my skirt flared up, what would [...]

Imagine you live in a rural area out West and your neighbors keep trying to drive you off your land. One day, dozens of masked men smash your windows and [...]

I've been obsessed with Black-Jewish relations for half a century. As a young adult, I was emotionally and ideologically invested in the storied civil rights alliance of the 1950s and [...]

Hard to believe it's come to this: The word 'antisemitism,' coined in the 19th century by a German journalist, is being weaponized by Jews against Jews. That tragedy-laden term, exploited [...]

Hope swelled in many hearts when President Biden indicated he would deep-six the prior administration's 'Deal of the Century,' which would have enshrined Israel's creeping annexation and ever-expanding settlement project [...]

One day last spring, I got a call from a woman I didn't know, asking if I objected--as she did--to a work of mine being included in The New Jewish [...]

The hoopla around the new Hulu series Mrs. America is driving me nuts. The disclaimer at the top of each episode doesn't help: 'This program is based on actual events [...]

Because my daughter Abigail is a very clever woman, she first made it sound like a gift: 'Our friend Jane just started a personal organizing service. I'm buying you a [...]

It's too early to choose a presidential candidate. When Hillary Clinton ran for president, her being a woman was icing on the cake. I love icing, so I jumped into [...]

If a Jew isn't wearing a visible sign--a kippah or a Magen David--how can we tell if he or she is Jewish? We can't. We make assumptions based on context. [...]

Questions, I've found, can bring us together, while answers can tear us apart. This is especially true when it comes to the contentious issue of sexual harassment in the Jewish [...]

This is a column about Jewish belonging--which some call tribalism. It's about group identification: the question of whether to count oneself into 'the Jewish people' with its proud achievements and [...]

It was the maydekh's #MeToo movement 20 years ahead of its time. In 1998, a report in the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith quoted women who alleged that they had been [...]

I've decided to travel to Israel this winter despite the Knesset's recent law banning foreigners who have advocated for boycott of the settlements--which I've often done to protest the Occupation. [...]

This summer, rather than an Israeli Defense Forces soldier arresting a Palestinian kid or a militant Jewish settler trashing a West Bank olive grove, the word 'Israeli' is likely to [...]

American Jews and American Muslims have had a lot of reasons lately to come together. But often when these two communities join forces, whether for joint action or for dialogue, [...]

I'm a groupie. Not the kind who stalks rock stars but the kind who, when intensely interested in an issue, feels compelled either to join a group or to start [...]

The night Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, I was finishing Jill Lepore's fascinating bestseller, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and came upon the strip in which Diana [...]

And it's not enough that Bernie is Jewish. People keep asking Jewish feminists like me which would excite us more, the first woman or the first Jew in the Oval [...]

The great Talmudist Adin Steinsaltz once said that a Jew is not someone whose grandparents are Jewish but someone who wants his or her grandchildren to be Jewish. That's as [...]

On May 19, 2014, Daher Nassar, a Palestinian fanner in the West Bank, awoke to find that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had bulldozed about 1,500 of his trees. 'I [...]

Last October, the American Jewish Congress submitted an advertisement to Ms. Magazine that pictured three Israeli women--Tzipi Livni, foreign minister and vice prime minister; Dorit Beinish, president of the Supreme [...]

Beheadings. Charlie Hebdo. The kosher supermarket. The caged pilot burned alive. Boko Haram atrocities. A guard shot during a bat mitzvah at a synagogue in Copenhagen. Four people killed last [...]

I'm not usually prone to hysteria or hyperbole, but lately there's a strong whiff of Jewish McCarthyism in the air--by which I mean attempts by powerful members of our community [...]

When I was young, it was axiomatic among radical leftists that one should resist the humanitarian impulse to give to beggars because handouts 'postpone the Revolution.' Only when the poor [...]

In August, despite the fragility of the newly resurrected peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government announced plans to build 1,187 new housing units for Jews [...]

Although champagne corks may not have popped in your community, Israel and the United States both made history recently by electing a record number of women to their national legislatures. [...]

'You shall not oppress the stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger because you were strangers in the land of Egypt' (Exodus 2 3:9). That familiar verse, which [...]

The Republicans, to their everlasting disgrace, have made Israel a wedge issue, reversing decades of political bipartisanship by casting President Obama as inadequately supportive of the Jewish state. This, despite [...]

In 1959, when I was 19, there was no birth control pill, doctors did not prescribe diaphragms or IUDs for unmarried women, and abortion was a crime. So when I [...]

Not long ago, my eldest granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah--two months shy of 60 years after I celebrated mine. I was one of the first girls in Conservative Judaism permitted [...]

We lost a remarkable Jewish hero in June--E.M. (Esther) Broner, the novelist, poet, playwright and ritualist, perhaps best known as the inventor of the women's seder and co-author of The [...]

Mikhael Manekin wears a kippah. He grew up in a religious Zionist family in Baltimore and attended a Jewish day school. He made aliyah with his family, attended high school [...]

In a small way, I felt justice was done when Rabbis for Human Rights North America recently honored Dr. Naomi Chazan with its Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award. Chazan is [...]

This past July, Donna Shalala, a Lebanese American, was detained at Ben Gurion Airport as she was leaving Israel. The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronoth and other news sources reported that [...]

After a week of intense meetings in Israel in March, our six-member delegation from Americans for Peace Now (APN) felt a new energy on the left. Which is not to [...]

Why have we stopped talking about the Goldstone report? Why has it sunk out of sight, leaving scant residue but the vilification of a man's good name? I refer to [...]

This summer, my husband and I had an incredible amount of company--a constant stream of weekend house guests, one couple who stayed a week, assorted day visitors, often eight or [...]

My brother-in-law, Bernard Miller, died in March at the age of 88 after a debilitating illness that had stolen his memory, dignity and essence. A World War II veteran who [...]

When I was young, my family often split into two camps on Jewish issues: the contingent that said, 'As long as the goyim aren't killing us, leave well enough alone' [...]

If you care about the well-being of Jews and Israel, by now the incessant Republican attacks on Barack Obama may have persuaded you to be wary of the Democratic candidate. [...]

The hope that Israel and the Palestinian Authority may once again engage in peace talks brings to mind one of the key reasons for the failure of previous negotiations: Officials [...]

I'm having a pronoun problem, a problem with the Jewish plural. The more vibrant my relationship to our tradition, the less comfortable I seem to be with the collective known [...]

The author expresses the views on rising settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. She mentions a report "Plundered Pastures," which documents that such violence is carried out by men from shepherding outposts that have been founded by Israeli settlers between 2017 and 2021. She further states that Israeli law enforcement agencies make no effective effort to end the continuous violation of the law by settlers in shepherding outposts.