Topic Tags: women

Our offering: // cakes baked in the shape of her womb. // Poppy seeds populate the holy center, // gifts of gratitude to the goddess of fertility; // this, our devotional expression— // cakes for the Queen of Heaven.

A person poem told from Vashti’s perspective

“Ribono shel Olam / Make me like our mothers and heroines…”

‘Woman Is a Tree of the Field’ is an original work of art inspired by trees in Jewish text and mystical tradition.

“The cries that carry / from one end  of the earth / to the other.”

“her presence undimmed but hidden as the new moon”

A midrashic tale of how twelve sisters, representing each of the twelve months, gather to mourn on Tisha b’Av

A modern Tu B’Shvat seder based in the mystical tradition of the four worlds

A new ritual based on an older North-African custom celebrating women’s roles in the Chanukah story on Rosh Chodesh Tevet

A short version of the story of the Book of Judith, and ideas for incorporating Judith and other women into the celebration of Hanukkah