A Guide to Matzo
"Most people find me plain and dry
Packaged in a simple box, living a simple life,
Mistaken for a simple cracker"
Between Barbie Land and the Real World
As we get older, we understand that there are complications and uncomfortable truths about how we girls are perceived and how we think of ourselves.
The Lessons I Learned in France
It would have been a very different experience had I not known the history behind each place, person, and event.
Black Bat Mitzvah
“In predominantly white and Jewish spaces, I was ignored, ostracized, tokenized, discriminated against, othered.”
Fractured Cracks
“We’ve been labeled and scrutinized, we can’t be seen for one language, for one way of being, any longer.”
Broken Lines of Belonging
“The stranger thing was, it felt like I’d been staring down my whole life.”
New Voices Interview for Amelie Liu
A collaboration with New Voices Magazine: An Interview with Amelie Liu
A Message to my Squirrel Hill Jewish Community from a Jew...
“To Jews, did my color either cancel my Jewishness or my Jewishness cancel my color, never coexisting?”
Mothers and Their Teen Daughters, in Conversation
jGirls+ founder, Elizabeth Mandel, discusses the birth of jGirls+ and how she and Lisa Hostein, of Hadassah Magazine, saw an opportunity to provide a space for meaningful mother-daughter conversations.
To Live by the Mandate of Tikkun Olam
Maya and her mother, Jody, discuss the importance of Judaism and how it fits into a determination to make this world a better one.
Navigating Two Worlds
As a person of color, Makeda explores the differences she feels in Jewish life compared to her mother, Rebecca.
