Leah Sarna
Esther and Other Captive Women
How the Purim story shaped Jewish activism.
The Hebrew Midwives of Exodus—and Jewish History
The midwives in this week's Torah reading set the precedent for centuries of Jewish women.
Life among the Readers
Ilana Kurshan's reading cure.
An Unusable Past?
What did Jewish women know about Torah, and when did they know it?
Before & After October 7: A Symposium
We asked distinguished friends and contributors a simple question: what did you believe before October 7 that you no longer believe?
“I Will Not Speak to Dullards”
“Without leaving the Zoom lecture, I quickly pulled up the YIVO Encyclopedia entry on Leah Horowitz and sent it to my family WhatsApp group: ‘Any chance we’re related?’”
Persian Daughters of Israel
Leah Sarna imagines Jewish and Gentile women doing their laundry on the banks of the Tigris, sharing tricks for keeping their headscarves tied and their bedrooms pure. She reviews Shai Secunda’s new book on just how Babylonian the Babylonian Talmud was.