Breaking Up is Hard to Do

February 1, 2013

So the final connection has been severed; I’ve broken up with the last of my professionals from back home. And this one was, I think, the hardest. Four generations of my family are cared for by the same dentist. Or, should I say, were. That moved done to three once I moved that fourth generation […]

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The Great Equalizer

January 22, 2013

For most of my life, I have staunchly rejected the term ‘feminist’ as a form of self-identification. When forced to self-identify, I state that I am an equalist. Which isn’t really a movement at all. If required to choose an actual movement, I suppose I would reluctantly align myself somewhere between egalitarianism and complementarianism My […]

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Choosing One Lesson

January 21, 2013

The internet has been abuzz with Lance Armstrong’s confession to Oprah. I, too, had something to say about it and I posted it at Kveller on Friday. Actually, I had an awful lot to say about it because there are so many ethical issues at stake. But I wanted to look at it from a […]

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Christian Bar Mitzvah: My Take

January 16, 2013

So…last week, this article,The Sisterhood’s Christian Bar Mitzvah: Can Jewish Ritual Be Borrowed?, was flying all about the internet, causing quite a bit of commotion among my colleagues. I read it with interest and, quite honestly, some amount of discomfort. Because at first glance, the idea of a non-Jew borrowing such a definitively Jewish ritual […]

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Carving Out Time

January 15, 2013

Last week, I had an amazing opportunity, thanks to the generous support of Rabbis Without Borders and Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community: two days to myself. Actually, they didn’t give me the two days to myself. They invited me to participate in The Op Ed Project and, in doing so, provided the opportunity […]

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