Confessions of an SJF
by Diane Faber VeitzerI may lack a husband and children, but that's no reason for self-pity.
Even the terrifying enlightenment bestowed by Shigeko couldn't teach me that we're most human when we're most divine.
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I may lack a husband and children, but that's no reason for self-pity.
There is no limit to how much love and compassion can emanate from one human heart.
Although often at ideological loggerheads, both feminism and traditional Judaism share a common goal -- upholding and ensuring the dignity of women.
"Yes, you can have it all, but you can never have it all at once."
An author finds herself at the frontlines of a new generational battle.
It's long past time for women to stand up for who we truly are.
A busy mother goes on a solo vacation and finds answers to some tough questions.
How can I say goodbye when I never even had the chance to really say hello?
How can we get free of the petty tyrannies of our own female vanity?
The Da Vinci Code gets Judaism's view of the Sacred Feminine all wrong.
What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing in a place like this?
Mikvah and motherhood: Frankly, I never thought I'd enter either institution. The barriers to the first were architectural; the barriers to the second, attitudinal.
Yes, I too long for a child of my own to hold, but who am I to challenge God and ask 'Why me?'
Going to the mikvah became an obsession. I wanted in even if I didn't know why.
More and more women are choosing to conquer the world by staying home to raise their children.
The feminist movement has failed to recognize another, more subtle form of power: internal power.
I had no idea what was happening to me. I only knew that the worst thing in the world was to be conscious.
Modern Feminism quickly atrophied into "Careerism," which left us with a society in which women's contributions are unrecognized by men and, more painfully, by women themselves.
The fact that the first human was created as an androgynous being gives us much insight into male-female relationships.
Why can't I affirm the assertion of others that traditional Judaism looks down at women?