The trees are more than landscaping. They are my neighbors, my deep-rooted friends. But our neighborhood, like our climate, is changing.

A writer reflects on how learning to cook deepened her connections with her Mountain Jewish ancestors and shares a Purim recipe.

In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Jewish women served their communities as spiritual leaders and paid religious functionaries. The main women’s leadership roles documented in Yiddish literature, memoirs, memorial books, and ethnographic studies include the midwife, the evil eye healer, the cemetery measurer, the prayer leader, and the mourning woman. 

The most interesting tension here isn't between the romantic leads, but between Jewish woman's sense of identity and the pull of assimilation. 

Every piece of Judaica Dolin creates is an expression of Jewish tradition and intention.

I hadn’t thought much at all about why I engaged with Judaism—or even why I was Jewish beyond having been born that way.

Purim’s festivities celebrate not only Jewish survival but also Jewish resistance.

JWA chats with Orthodox rabbi Dov Linzer and Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin about their new book,It Takes Two to Torah. 

Chef Jerzy Gonzalez-Arroyo takes her clients on a cultural journey of amazing Sephardi flavors.

JWA chats with Persian-American cantor Jacqueline Rafii.

JWA chats with sociology professor and author Helen Kim.

The British Library shares a fifteenth-century prayer book commissioned by a father to his daughter, Maraviglia, a testament to women’s participation in fifteenth-century Italian Jewish ritual life.

In the awful days since October 7, the people in my tight-knit, mostly Orthodox LA neighborhood have come together to share their sadness, anger, and grief. 

JWA talks to Dr. Galeet Dardashti, cultural anthropologist and singer, about her new albumMonajat.

JWA talks to Loolwa Khazzoom, frontwoman of the rock band Iraqis in Pajamas, about the inspiration for her new single.

Megillat Esther reminds us of a different way to lead, a different way to change the world.

Next year in Jerusalem, we like to say. But really, next year, who knows?

Roz Bornstein interviewed Magda Altham Schaloum, on June 5, 2001, in Mercer Island, Washington, for the Weaving Women's Words Oral History Project. Schaloum shares her experiences growing up in Hungary, including enduring antisemitism, the impact of anti-Jewish laws, her family's separation and deportation to Auschwitz, her survival through slave labor camps, and her life after the war, including immigrating to Seattle and building a new life with her husband and children.

When I thought about where I learned how to make amends, I realized it wasn't just from Hebrew school or from my family. It was, instead, one of my most-read books from childhood: Kevin Henkes’Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.

Queen Esther used her power to save and lift up other Jews. That’s my version of Jewish power and feminism. But Julia Haart, the star of My Unorthodox Life, uses her power as a weapon against other Jews.