A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America
Oct 5, 2012
“A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America” is a discussion between editors Shira Kohn, assistant dean of The Graduate School of JTS, and Rachel Kranson, a postdoctoral research fellow in Yiddish Studies at the libraries of New York University.
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Minding Our Words
Oct 17, 2014 By Anne Lapidus Lerner | Commentary | Bereishit
On Simhat Torah, we complete the reading of the humash—all 79,796 Hebrew words of it—and when we’re done, what do we do? We roll it up to the very beginning and start to read it all over again. Words, words, words. Devarim (Deuteronomy)—which, of course, means “words”—ends with Moses’s death after the conclusion of his lengthy final oration; Bereishit opens with God demonstrating the power of words by creating the world with them.
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