By Miriam Moster. Watching My Unorthodox Life on Netflix, a reality tv series that showcases Julia Haart’s successful fashion career as she and her family grapple with leaving the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community, there were many things I could relate to, raised as I was in a similar community to the one Haart left behind. The […]
By Sarah Kurzweil. Growing up in an affluent New York City suburb with a large Jewish population, I heard the term Jewish American Princess make its way into conversations quite frequently. In the past few years—and especially in light of rising expressions of antisemitism in the United States—I have considered how stereotypes such as the […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (FSR) has a new podcast, Madang (conversations on Christianity, religion, and culture), now available on YouTube and Spotify. N.B. If you are an FSR […]
Black feminists and other scholars of gender studies have critiqued the whiteness of the Feminist movement, noting how the suffrage movement and second and third wave feminism have often betrayed or overlooked Black and brown women’s needs, rights, and organizations. Feminism has benefited from and participated in White supremacy. Religions have, as well, been complicit […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. This month we celebrate all the accomplishments of our board members in 2020! January February Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) shares three new publications: Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. VOICE, the Yale Divinity School Women’s Center student journal, was recently resurrected by the current directors. Alumna and editor emerita, Kate Ott (JFSR), wrote an introduction to […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sylvia Marcos (JFSR) has been invited to teach and publish with the Catedra de Teología Feminista in the Department of Religious Sciences (Ciencias Religiosas) of Universidad Iberoamericana Campus, […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) was interviewed on the Spiriosity podcast where she spoke on trauma in sacred texts. N.B. If you are an FSR Board member and want […]
By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder. There is a theology of geography. There is a connection between space and fate. There is something unspoken that connects destiny with places, places with people. Towns and cities do not surface with notoriety. Sometimes the most unexpected places produce the most extraordinary people. Before August 9, 2014, there was little […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) has recently published a book chapter and a magazine article: “Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic […]