Just as the Havdalah service requires participation from each of the senses, I realized that my identities– a Jew, a daughter, a woman, a sister, and a feminist– would be integral as I entered Jewish adulthood.

The amount of page time devoted to questioning a ruling that diminishes the status of deaf people represented, to me, that these rabbis recognized that physical limitations should not keep people from following the mitzvot.  

As the daughter of two Iranian immigrants, I am compelled to take advantage of the opportunities and privileges my mother, aunts, and grandmothers were deprived of.

Jwitter, or Jewish Twitter, helped me reshape how I viewed my place in a Jewish community.

The Jewish-American literary canon is not only dismissive of women but hostile to them, and this is insidious and damaging to the narrative we tell as Jews and women.

For some Modern Orthodox Jewish women, skirts versus pants gets tricky.

Watching the Hallmark movie Eight Gifts of Hanukkah, I felt like I could relate spiritually to a Jewish character portrayed in mainstream media for the first time. 

With all the joy in the room, I didn’t understand why my eyes would begin to water.

There is a point of tension for me in both being valued in the Jewish community and being devalued by the Torah’s discussion and treatment of women. Owning my own tallit reminded me that I am valued twice.

As a teen with a Muslim-Palestinian father and a Jewish-American mother, the hamsa has always meant a lot to me.

For most of my life, I’ve felt like I’m not Jewish enough.

I’ve come to understand that my access to wealth and privilege can be leveraged to fight the systems that gave me them.

Dworkin didn’t try to make feminism trendy or more appealing; instead, her contributions were biting, radical, and definitely controversial.

“Are you going to read Torah? We think that’s a boy’s mitzvah.”

My hair doesn’t only destroy hair ties; it also destroys insecurities about my Jewishness and femininity.

Our group of youth climate activists clings to the conviction that our activism ceases for nothing. Really, we’re ride or die.