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Image of Eden Golan
April 7, 2025

Eden Golan at Eurovision: Representing Israeli Resilience through Song

Amia Kaplun

Golan’s disqualification evoked many emotions for me. I struggled to grapple with how a song describing the terror and tragedy from October 7 could be seen as controversial.

Collage with an image of Mary Shelley and of Frankenstein's monster
April 2, 2025

The Identity of the Teenage Girl, From Mary Shelley to Lisa Frankenstein

Dany Dorsey

Mary Shelley, in all her unconventional womanhood, wrote the ultimate tale of misfits.Frankenstein meditates on nature, human limitations, the price of advancement, and the repercussions of the pursuit of knowledge.

Topics:Fiction
Collage with image of Kristen Bell and Adam Brody acting in Nobody Wants This with a heart.
March 31, 2025

The Problematic Portrayal of Jewish Women in Netflix's Nobody Wants This

Zoe Moore

The Jewish women we meet throughoutNobody Wants This are portrayed as male-obsessed and manipulative villains.

Topics:Television
Collage with image of characters from the film, Anora and Vanya, and Coney Island cyclone roller coaster
March 28, 2025

The Imperfect Feminist Politics of Anora

Sylvie Simmons

Madison’s realistic performance creates a likeable character who's hardnot to empathize with. But while Baker attempts to abandon a cliché, fairytale ending, he struggles to portray his protagonist without a male-savior-counterpart.

Topics:Film
Collage with image of Amit Elor wrestling with medals in the background
March 26, 2025

Amit Elor Inspired Me to Become a Wrestler

Ruth Pollin-Galay

In the weeks following Elor’s win, the thought of wrestling completely took over my brain. Being able to execute anything like Elor did seemed like a dream.

Topics:Athletes
Collage with images of characters from The 100 and an image of the universe
March 24, 2025

Analyzing the Feminist Matriarchy of The 100

Murphy Slater

The show is a teen sci-fi, yes, but it explores important themes of cultural divides and gender norms.

Collage with stars and Spock and Captain Kirk and stars and a hand making a Vulcan salute
March 21, 2025

The Jewish Collective Seen in Star Trek

Maya Braiterman

I enjoyed the show's covert Jewish content throughout the series, but I most appreciated episode eighteen of the second season for its beautiful Holocaust allegory.

Topics:Television
Collage with ancient Greek sculptures of Orpheus, Eurydice & Hermes, as well as as sheet music, a guitar, and flowers
March 19, 2025

See the Way the World Could Be: The Feminism of Hadestown

Margaret Lockman

Despite the misogynistic undertones of the original myth, I believeHadestownpromotes a feminist message. 

Topics:Theater
Collage with image of residents of Munchkinland looking at propaganda poster of the Wicked Witch, Elphaba
March 17, 2025

Propaganda’s Role in Creating the "Wicked"

Liana Galper

Graphic design can be a tool of hatred. Illustration allows oppressors to solidify propaganda in a static form. As the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) says while he is betraying Elphaba, “The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.

Collage with wooden bowl with a pizza, fish, watermelon, avocado, and other food items in it on a table cloth
March 14, 2025

Bowls and Body Image: The Gendered Expectations of Eating

Jess Shapiro

Over the past couple of years, I have paid particular attention to the rise in the use of bowls instead of plates. Now, I am not one to “yuck” another’s “yums” but this seems to manifest itself as yet another dieting habit—in addition to specific diet foods/drinks or simply not eating—that differentiates adolescent girls and boys.

Topics:Food Writing
Image of Paris Geller and Rory Gilmore sitting on a coach with a checkered background
March 12, 2025

Ambitious, Bold, and Overlooked: Unpacking Gilmore Girls' Paris Geller’s Jewish Identity

Liza Feinstein

When does Paris get to be Jewish, and when is her Judaism forgotten?

Topics:Television
Collage with tiara and scepter with pink and blue sparkly background
March 10, 2025

What Does a Princess Really Look Like?

Gaby Brown

According to many Disney films, being a princess means possessing stereotypically “beautiful” traits—a tiny waist, a small, button-like nose, large eyes and breasts, and light skin. However, as I, and millions of other young girls came to realize, the characteristics of our cherished heroines are extremely unrealistic.

Collage with shofar, lulav and etrog, menorah, tallit, and flowers
March 7, 2025

‘Tis the Season to Rethink Christmas Spirit

Meital Fried

“The holiday season” may sound more progressive than “the Christmas season,” but it ignores the fact that the most important Jewish holiday season is usually over by late October.

Images of The Witches with pages of a book
March 5, 2025

Examining the Antisemitism of Roald Dahl’s The Witches

Charli Duchalski

I realized that the book promoted a cartoonish antisemitism that went completely over my head as a child.

Topics:Fiction
Collage with mage of Lady Bird and her mom driving in a car and trying on a dress
March 3, 2025

Lady Bird: The Story of a Teenage Girl

Lea Davis

Rather than a typical high school romance,Lady Bird offers the viewers a complex, messy, and emotionally resonant story about the love between a mother and daughter.

Topics:Television
Collage of King Henry VIII's Wives and the Six Musical
February 28, 2025

Six: A Feminist Musical?

Bee Foster

While it tackles heavy subjects with sensitivity,Six unfortunately leans heavily on stereotypes in its characterization of Henry VIII’s wives.

Topics:Theater
Collage with page of Talmud and two hands shaking
January 24, 2025

Feminist Argument for the Sake of Heaven

Liana Galper

Why is it that argument between Hillel and Shamai is deemed holy, whereas feminist debate is indicative of female weakness?

Image of the city of Jerusalem with a dove in the sky
January 22, 2025

A Call to Prayer and a Call to Action

Amia Kaplun

The simultaneous presence of two distinct yet intertwined faiths struck me with a profound sense of unity that I had never truly grasped before.

Collage with photo of Charlotte Charlaque surrounded by black and white designs.
January 17, 2025

A Young Liberal Feminist’s Post-election Message to Her Peers

Jess Shapiro

Charlaque lived through perhaps one of the most horrific periods in world history as a Jew AND as a transgender woman, AND she survived.

Megaphones on either side with an artistic interpretation of the flag of Turkey in the middle
January 15, 2025

Addressing Violence Against Women in Turkey

Lea Davis

Attending my friend’s club truly opened my eyes to the horrific reality that is day-to-day life for many Turkish women.

A white rectangle with a Stars of David pattern. A pink rectangle in the middle with the artistic silhouette of the bust of a woman.
January 10, 2025

Fighting for Better Breast Cancer Treatment as Jewish Feminists

Bee Foster

Jewish women, likePatricia Barr andRose Kushner, fought so people like my grandmother could live happy and full lives after breast cancer. 

Collage with images of Bella Abzug and a rainbow background.
January 8, 2025

How Bella Abzug Inspires Me to Never Give Up

Dany Dorsey

One of the themes in Bella’s story is a refusal to stay down when pushed into a corner.

Collage of hand holding a megaphone with stars in the background
January 6, 2025

Let’s Get Angry Together — And Make Change

Charli Duchalski

Anger can be a very powerful tool for Jewish women.

Text reads "I sang then and my song was our sun." with an image of the sun.
January 3, 2025

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim: Poetry as Spiritual Resistance

Margaret Lockman

Yet at the moment when her humanity was threatened the most, Basman Ben-Hayim turned to art.

Repeated images of the Statue of Liberty on the top row. Repeated images of Emma Lazarus on the bottom row.
December 20, 2024

Lifting Our Lamp to Welcome the Stranger

Yona Pianko

Learning about Emma Lazarus' important work aiding Eastern European refugees fleeing from discrimination, violence, and pogroms inspired me to think more deeply about immigration: both its connection to my own life and to today’s world.

Topics:Activism

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