Aurora Mendelsohn
By Aurora Mendelsohn
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Opinion Raising Cups, Dropping Oranges
At the first Seder my husband and I hosted in 1999, we eagerly incorporated two feminist rituals we had seen in the Ma’yan Passover Haggadah. We placed a Miriam’s Cup (a wedding gift from several years beforehand) on our Seder table and an orange on our Seder plate. Our mothers cheered. In the following 10…
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Opinion But Bubbe and Zaide Were Hippies
On a Friday night at my shul, the children gathered to hear the rabbi tell an after-dinner story. His engaging style had them riveted to the tale of a bubbe who teaches her little grandson all about how faith and song magically hid her in the shtetl from the Cossacks. Part of me settled comfortably…
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