The show’s open-ended nature to these ethical debates—rather than preaching a specific standpoint— poses questions for its viewers, much like Jewish texts.

In a way, being Jewish in a sea of strangers is a little like giving a star-struck tourist directions in Times Square.

I didn’t lose my faith while reading Lucretius. But I did lose my willingness to let faith finish my sentences for me.

From group chats to family simchas to inherited objects, my Jewish identity is both remembered and honored every single day. 

JWA sat down with visual artist and entrepreneur Elke Reva Sudin to discuss her impressive artistic and entrepreneurial pursuits.

I have never felt more Jewish than when I’ve been in a communal performance space.

I choose to define Jewish identity not through a litmus test of allegiance to a set of positions, or conformity to a way of observance, but instead through shared identification with a peoplehood and culture. 

I’m raising my child in a world that is messy and painful and beautiful, carrying my mother’s legacy forward even as I grieve her absence.

No matter how the mountain life regrows and reemerges, it will be different. No matter how my community is rebuilt, it too will never be the same. 

As our communities in Minnesota continue to face the plagues of ICE terror, may we find strength in our ancestors’ stories of courage, resistance, compassion, and solidarity.

Cohen’s contribution to jazz as an Israeli inspires me as a Jewish musician. She shows the world how to love and perfect the art of jazz, while making it her own.

These Nobel Prize recipients, including a few women not honored for their work, are role models of brave work and brilliant thinking. 

Yiddishism is marked by its foremothers, like Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Adrienne Cooper, and the women who keep it alive today.

As my daughter and I walked through the museum that Clara Lander helped grow, I grappled with the meaning of her absence from the walls of this place she loved.

“Girl” becomes “grrrl,” the growl at the center of this word symbolic of the righteous anger we feel as girls facing injustice.

May this be a moment to remember that it should not require us to see someone who looks like us to feel that rage and recognize that they are a whole life: a whole world.

It’s our responsibility as Jews, and as women, to be activists. The chain of activism that stretches back to my great-grandmother will continue with my children. 

Playwright and actor Arielle Zaytsev's imaginative new play imagines Grigori Rasputin and Vladimir Putin as lovers.

In a society where women are forced to choose either/or, Vera Rubin looked the status quo in the eye and said, "And."

JWA sat down with award-winning animator and artist Maya Erdelyi to discuss her career and recent short film,Anyuka.

Gloria Steinem’s legacy teaches me that activism is both personal and collective, it's spiritual and political. 

The Torah tells us to be accepting of foreigners 36 times, more than any other commandment. So when we see people in our city who are being wrongfully targeted, we help.

When Lang dances The Song of Deborah, she restores the uncertainty that the Book of Judges omits. 

JWA sat down with Amy Dell, founder of Sababa Foods, to discuss her culinary journey and her food-rich upbringing.

Bella Abzug contributed to the causes that she was passionate about, not afraid to connect her passions and “womanly emotions” to the impacts she made.