‘One day I encouraged the girls in my class to stand as close to the mechitza as we could and to pray as loudly as we could. What could the rebbes say? We were praying.’
Florence Nasar uses dance to study the effects of Jewish ritual on women
At his bar mitzvah, my son took his place in the men’s section of the shul—a place where mothers can’t go
After attending one cookie-cutter Orthodox wedding after another, a question arises: Are these rituals being performed in meaningful ways?