A New Kind of Tu B’Shevat Celebration
Tu B’Shevat, or New Years for the Trees, is one of my favorite quirky Jewish holidays
Tu B’Shevat, or New Years for the Trees, is one of my favorite quirky Jewish holidays
My most recent piece for Jewish Women’s Archive is live! I wrote about the unlikely connection between feminism, water conservation, and the mikveh. It’s short and sweet but highlights the importance of remembering that Judaism cannot exist in a vacuum, unresponsive to the world around us.
This weekend I had the distinct honor to present my research on mikvah at the Mathias Undergraduate Research Conference. I often get so caught up in everything I’m working out outside of the classroom that I forget about my actual studies (the whole reason I’m at AU in the first place). So having my research […]
Last week I had the lovely opportunity to be interviewed by Washington Jewish Week about my work at the Adas Israel Community Mikvah! Sam and I talked for almost an hour about my work, my activism, and my thoughts on Jewish justice. The result was a fun overview of what working at the Mikvah means […]
Wednesday night, many months of hard work came to a beautiful conclusion. Though it feels like I talk about it a lot (and scream it from the rooftops) many of my friends don’t quite understand what I do when I say I work at the mikvah. I was hired in August of 2018 to aid […]
I am so excited this piece is up! I explore what ways that mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath, is being reclaimed and revamped as a progressive, feminist, MODERN, practice. Check it below: