Balancing the good with the questionable doesn’t mean we should ignore the harder parts of history, but in the end, it’s important to focus on what we can learn from them.

My parents explicitly educated me in social justice issues, but not everyone learned these things as a child. What was the difference between my parents and my friends’ parents that had shaped the way we were raised?

For some reason, wearing kippot gave me that same itchy, wrong feeling I had experienced from feminine clothing in elementary school or masculine clothing in middle school

The thought of wearing something that declared my Judaism felt strange.

At the Hamburg synagogue, I found myself in a place literally built to go against the foundational egalitarian principles my Judaism had always been about.

Let's talk about pretty privilege.

As a Jewish feminist, I have a responsibility to further the movement started by the writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Out of 20 Jewish Survivor contestants, only six have been women.

My ancestral history is like a 1,000-piece puzzle with half of the puzzle pieces missing.

My reaction to antisemitic gun violence is not one of fear, but of alertness to a threat far more normalized for me than for my elders.

How many other teenagers around the state of Florida, around the country, shared my bitterness and anger, but didn’t have the tools to be where I was then?

That Simchat Torah, I saw the Torah not as something I had easy access to, but something generations of women had to fight to even touch.

We’ve questioned the way sex ed is taught and brainstormed new methods health teachers should be using.