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About Sotah

I am a young lawyer, a writer and a mom to a baby girl. I have three wishes: 1. Write a book, a short story, write something. My writing like my knitting projects are all unfinished. 2. Talk to God - aka have a profound revelatory spiritual experience, where I will know myself in the presence of the Divine. 3. Heal from the c-section birth of my baby - and have another baby someday, and a birth of wonder and awesomeness, a healing birth whatever corporal form it will take.

The leap of faith & and the narrative of the other at Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2010

As I near Christmas, I am reminded of attending of Jewish elementary School where Christmas was not a day off. There were no school buses, so our parents drove us to school instead.  At NCSY, an orthodox Jewish youth group, … Continue reading →

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Gather the Jews revisited

Posted on December 17, 2010

GathertheJews.org true to their word, embraced a bit of blogging diversity. I will be blogging the weekly portion for Gather the  Jews  starting this week. You can read my take on the Shabbat children’s blessing here.

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And then I got fat and immodest

Posted on December 13, 2010

I am no fan of modesty. In the name of full disclosure, I used to be seriously “modest.”  For several years in high school and college I covered by elbows, knees and cleavage.  I swam in the Dead Sea in … Continue reading →

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What would a feminist Chanukah Midrash look like?

Posted on December 1, 2010

There is the Hebrew School Chanukah, where the Macabees are guerrilla fighters leading an uprising in the name of liberty (kind of like George Washington) and then there is the other Chanukah, the civil war Chanukah, where Jews killed other … Continue reading →

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Jewish text learning online

Posted on November 19, 2010

I will never know the magic of google’s  algorithm;  however, I do know that when I look up “Jewish learning” the websites that I know to have rich, complex, and varied textual learning are nowhere to be found.  Instead, I … Continue reading →

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Choice-feminism & Egaliterian Halacha

Posted on November 7, 2010

Choice-feminism Ideas that can change the world have a way of at least temporarily giving away their radical-ness in exchange for adoption by society at large.  Feminism (speaking in giant strokes) was domesticated through the emergence of choice-feminism.   Arwyn, at … Continue reading →

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There is something odd about DC’s Gather the Jews

Posted on October 28, 2010

“Gather the Jews” is a clearing house for DC Jewish information – a self proclaimed space for “hyperlocal Jewish News and Events in Washington DC.”  The website is easy to navigate and use.  It is simply a communal Google calendar … Continue reading →

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Raising a Jewish daughter v. raising a daughter Jewish-ly?

Posted on October 18, 2010

Raising a Jewish daughter v. raising a daughter Jewish-ly? I am Jewish, so is her father. We live a life within the Jewish community. At seven months, she has never gone for longer than two weeks without attending services.  All … Continue reading →

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The radical “Sister-Wives” – a review

Posted on October 14, 2010

My last year of college I wrote a rather lengthy thesis, where after many interviews and  much reading,  I came to believe  a rather simple idea:  many women who practice patriarchal forms of a variety of religions, understand their practice … Continue reading →

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The blog I never write

Posted on May 27, 2010

This is the blog that I never write. I have had this blog since I started law school. This summer I finished law school – I have written less then forty entries in three years into the blog I never … Continue reading →

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