Jewish women

Jewish Women from Diverse Artistic Perspectives

New show highlights the diversity of Jewish women's experiences

When the Mikvah Water Touches Your Black Hair

A conversion brings wholeness to body, mind and spirit.

From Small Town Ethiopia to Big City Law Student

How parents' courage inspired a life of service for one Ethiopian Jew

Celebrating Jewish Women This Women’s History Month

I’ll admit when I looked up at my calendar this week I loudly exclaimed “It’s already March! But what about ...

Remembering Liz Swados

Lesbian and Jewish theater icon Elizabeth Swados died in January at the age of 64. Swados was an American writer, composer, musician ...

Faithfully Feminist

The words “religious feminist” seem like an oxymoron. How can someone be both? The three main Western religions, Judaism, Christianity ...

Wandering Jewess

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

The Sultan’s Curse

Iris Aluf Medina was born and raised in Turkey and now lives in San Francisco. We met up with this ...