New York

Avital Chizhik Goldschmidt does most of her outreach to the Russian-speaking Jewish community through the printed word, publishing articles about émigré life and Jewish feminist issues for media outlets including the New York Times, Haaretz, Tablet and the Forward. She also teaches Torah classes. Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt’s outreach is more public, delivering sermons from the […]

As a black Orthodox Jew, Chava Shervington is constantly being noticed. And she finds it exhausting. There was the time at a Reform synagogue when two women stared at her for the entire service. The time someone at a grocery store explained what gefilte fish was. The offers to help her read the prayer book […]