Creative Non-fiction
July 8, 2019
Published by Hippocampus Magazine, November 2017https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/11/taunting-the-abyss-by-y-l-fein/ Almost 30 years ago, Mary-Claire King located the region on the genome that became known as the BRCA1 gene. Later […]
July 8, 2019
A legendary man said to have been condemned by Christ to wander the earth until the Second Coming. Or A person who never settles down. Or […]
July 8, 2019
A long time ago, when it was still possible to tell the difference – intellectually and politically – between the lunatic extremes of the left and […]
July 8, 2019
“Jewish women,” writes Shira Schmidt (AJN 9/6/2000 Finding Hannah’s Voice) “do not pray like Jewish men.” With that truism begins her contentious article that women should […]
July 8, 2019
To purloin a sentence from Shakespeare’s Shylock, ‘I am a Jew.’ As a feminist, I have been known to proclaim, ‘I am a Jew in a […]