Aurora Mendelsohn

Aurora Mendelsohn lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and their three children and works in medical research. She has written about Jewish ritual and liturgy, feminism and parenting for the past decade (in the Forward, Sh'ma Magazine and Lilith) and blogs at RainbowTallitBaby. She has created ritual material for baby namings and Passover. She served on the board of the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day school. In the past, she directed Jewish programming at camp for children with developmental disabilities and was involved in independent minyanim.Aurora Mendelsohn lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and their three children and works in medical research. She has written about Jewish ritual and liturgy, feminism and parenting for the past decade (in the Forward, Sh'ma Magazine and Lilith) and blogs at RainbowTallitBaby. She has created ritual material for baby namings and Passover. She served on the board of the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day school. In the past, she directed Jewish programming at camp for children with developmental disabilities and was involved in independent minyanim.


Articles by Aurora Mendelsohn

An Orthodox-Friendly, Egalitarian Bencher: Something Old, Something Very New

With great fanfare, David Zvi Kalman and Joshua Schwartz announced their production of a new, “egalitarian and queer-inclusive” bencher, Seder ...