Aurora Mendelsohn’s Writing and Interviews

Newspapers, Magazines, Book Sections

• Religious rights don’t justify discrimination (Toronto Star)
• Other People’s Children (Shm’a)
• Partnership Minyan and the Egalitarian Threat (The Forward)
• Having It All and Being Good Jew Too (The Forward)
• School Tuition Should Be Based on Income (The Forward)
• From the Civil War to Our Seders, a Song of Redemption (The Forward)
• ‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange (The Forward)
• Raising Cups, Dropping Oranges (The Forward)
• But Bubbe and Zaide Were Hippies (The Forward)
• The Jewish Pregnancy Resource Book – Section on God and Breastfeeding
• Nursing In Shul (Lilith)

Liturgy

• Indigenous Land Acknowledgement- Jewish Version (Open Siddur Project)
• Prayer for Safe Sleep for a Newborn Baby   (Open Siddur Project and Ritual Well)
• The Four Cups of Wine and the Four Freedoms (Open Siddur Project and Haggadot.com)

Edited Blogs and Websites 

• Strange Thoughts: A New Take on Loving the Stranger (Jewschool)
• The Othering of Tzedaka in Jewish Education (eJewish Philanthropy)
• The Old English Drinking Song about Esther and Haman (The Jewniverse).
• When Women Wear Kippahs (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• An Orthodox-Friendly, Egalitarian Bencher: Something Old, Something Very New (The Torch)
• The Four Cups of wine and the Four Freedoms  (Open Siddur Project)
• The Paradox of the Mechitza (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• The Cost of Attachment Parenting (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• Egalitarian. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means… (Jewschool & blog)

Rainbow Tallit Baby Blog

• Whores and harems: Sexual Politics and the Book of Esther
• Recon Rabbis and non-Jewish spouses
• It’s not about the extra mitzvot: Mansplaining the Morning Blessings 
• Learning about spirituality from Oliver Sacks 
• It wasn’t the “grassroots” of Orthodoxy. It was liberal Jews.
• Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s Own Reconstructionism: a brief exegesis on “Hannuka O Hannuka” 
• If they were sons 
• The evidence of polygamy is in our genes?!? Poor Science writing and the danger of sociobiology
• Girls are Easy: A Rant 
• My daughter on Kippah and tfillin 
• Atereth Zekaynim, The Crown of the Elderly – On the death of Reb Zalman  
• All-of-a-kind Family tore down the mechitzah on Simchat Torah 
• Conservative Movement and Egalitarianism- Really Time to make up their minds 
• Jewish Feminists, Liberal and Orthodox, Seek Mutual Respect
• Orthodox Feminists- Why haven’t they left? Not because a lack of observant alternatives 
• Patralineal Descent- What is right isn’t easy 
• It’s all about sexuality, not vaginas or porn: The Anne Frank controversy and our denial of female sexuality 
• Matzah and how authoritarianism is crumby 
• Well, Conservative Movement it is time to make up your mind 
• Day school tuition: A heartfelt plea and hope via income caps
• Has the Forward become Kveller? 
• Frog and Toad Christmas story – a Jewish FAIL 
• On Men and Modesty 
• Midrash manicures inspires this rant 
• How the Reconstructionist Rabbis of My Youth Ruined (Other) Shuls for Me. Part 1: Liturgy 
• Real World Kashrut- Honouring what people actually do 

Interviews:

• Centre for Jewish Feminism Telecourse, Safe Sanctuaries: How to Create Feminist Prayer and Synagogue Communities, The Sancutuary
• Reconstructionist Movement, Cutting Edge Judaism, Building a Jewish Future (podcast transcript)
• New York Post, Sept. 9, 2012, Jews complain gay weddings are more fair than straight ones

Writing by Date:

• Recon Rabbis and non-Jewish spouses
• Religious rights don’t justify discrimination (Toronto Star)
• It’s not about the extra mitzvot: Mansplaining the Morning Blessings  (blog)
• The Othering of Tzedaka in Jewish Education (eJewish Philanthropy)
• The Old English Drinking Song about Esther and Haman (The Jewniverse).
• Learning about spirituality from Oliver Sacks (blog)
• When Women Wear Kippahs (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• It wasn’t the “grassroots” of Orthodoxy. It was liberal Jews. (blog)
• An Orthodox-Friendly, Egalitarian Bencher: Something Old, Something Very New (The Torch)
• Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s Own Reconstructionism: a brief exegesis on “Hannuka O Hannuka” (blog)
• If they were sons (blog)
• Other People’s Children (Shm’a)
• The evidence of polygamy is in our genes?!? Poor Science writing and the danger of sociobiology ( blog)
• Girls are Easy: A Rant (blog)
• My daughter on Kippah and tfillin (blog)
• Atereth Zekaynim, The Crown of the Elderly – On the death of Reb Zalman  (blog)
• All-of-a-kind Family tore down the mechitzah on Simchat Torah (blog)
• Conservative Movement and Egalitarianism- Really Time to make up their minds ( blog)
• Jewish Feminists, Liberal and Orthodox, Seek Mutual Respect(blog)
• Orthodox Feminists- Why haven’t they left? Not because a lack of observant alternatives (blog)
• Patralineal Descent –What is right isn’t easy (blog)
• It’s all about sexuality, not vaginas or porn: The Anne Frank controversy and our denial of female sexuality (blog)
• The Four Cups of wine and the Four Freedoms  (Open Siddur Project)
• Matzah and how authoritarianism is crumby (blog)
• Partnership Minyan and the Egalitarian Threat (The Forward)
• Well, Conservative Movement it is time to make up your mind (blog)
• Day school tuition: A heartfelt plea and hope via income caps.(blog)
• Has the Forward become Kveller? (blog)
• Having It All and Being Good Jew Too (The Forward)
• Frog and Toad Christmas story – a Jewish FAIL (blog)
• The Paradox of the Mechitza (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• The Cost of Attachment Parenting (The Sisterhood / The Forward)
• On Men and Modesty (blog)
• Midrash manicures inspires this rant (blog)
• How the Reconstructionist Rabbis of My Youth Ruined (Other) Shuls for Me. Part 1: Liturgy (blog)
• School Tuition Should Be Based on Income (The Forward)
• Real World Kashrut- Honouring what people actually do (blog)
• Egalitarian. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means… (Jewschool & blog)
• From the Civil War to Our Seders, a Song of Redemption (The Forward)
• ‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange (The Forward)
• Raising Cups, Dropping Oranges (The Forward)
• But Bubbe and Zaide Were Hippies (The Forward)
• The Jewish Pregnancy Resource Book – Section on God and Breastfeeding
• Nursing In Shul (Lilith)