Sisters in Arms

Playing the defiant Vashti in a day school Purim play awakened my inner feminist

Daybreak: Israel Makes Offer For Shalit

Plus Polanski’s way out, Egypt’s hated wall, and more in the news

Today in the Tyranny of the Ultra-Orthodox

Intel to hire shabbos goyim; a woman arrested at the Western Wall

My Generation

R. Crumb, Genesis, feminism, and history in the latest chapter of an illustrated memoir

Sundown: Not Quite Bra-Burning

Reform, rejection, and relaxation

Sundown: Children of a Lesser Shah

Iranian Jews, feminist rabbis, a Hollywood breakup

Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon

The frenetic, hormonally charged days before a bat mitzvah

A Bridge Too Far

How one woman lived to regret her nose job

Liberated Bride

Alix Kates Shulman on the creation of an ex-prom queen and protofeminist

A Higher Purpose

What happens when a secular Jewish feminist immerses herself in the world of Evangelical Christians