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Maya Rosen, 19, has been wearing tzitzit for three years, making her own for two, and last week launched Netztitzot, a not-for-profit organization that will sew and sell tzitzit for women.
For some, wearing tzitzit is just about halachic egalitarian practice, and not about queering Jewish ritual items. Rachel Schwartz, a straight cisgender woman, ...
What is the purpose of wearing tzitzit, the ritual fringes that are attached to the four cornered garment mentioned in our parsha? (Numbers 15:37-41) Several classic answers come to mind. Some sugg… ...
Binya Kóatz has been inspired to wear tzitzit every, day but she has been less inspired by the offerings available in online and brick-and-mortar Judaica shops.
The commandment of tzitzit tells the story of a relationship between the Jews and God, one that would never go out of fashion ...
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JTA — Binya Kóatz remembers the first time she saw a woman wearing tzitzit. While attending Friday night services at a Jewish Renewal synagogue in Berkeley, California, she noticed the long ...
Wearing tzitzit is meaningful for me because when they dangle for all to see, my values are on display. Even though the consequences of this choice are not always what I would like, ...
She began thinking about what it would mean to wear tzitzit outside of a performative context. Film still from Julie Weitz, “Prayer for Burnt Forests” (2021) (courtesy the artist) ...
Religious Jewish soldiers wearing tzitzit attend a swearing-in ceremony as they enter the Orthodox Jewish IDF "Nahal Haredi" unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on May 26, 2012. Hamas terrorists ...
Wear Tzitzit, Skip Sex. By Daniel M. Bronstein ... In this story, a tzitzit-donning man undertakes a faraway and expensive journey to procure the services of a well-known courtesan.
Or is there a deep spiritual meaning of wearing tzitzit that holds a message for contemporary Jews? The commandment “You shall make yourself twisted fringes upon the four corners of your garment” ...