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Blood: Young girls tuck tampons quickly into backpacks, secret them in purses, hide them in Ugg boots. It’s not blue dye that the river is running with, and periods are more trouble than the pamphlet in that goody bag from middle-school health class would leave one to believe. “It’s beautiful to be female,” we’re told, but nobody accounts for cramps and cramps and cramps and bloodied sheets and cramps. We are under no obligation to love our bodies, to delight in...

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Paschal Offerings– Jen SteinThis year, on the seder plateinstead of the bloodied shank bonewe place a cluster of sweet grapeswhich serve as a symbol of fertility,of new life and abundance.We choose this, life, and not death:for before us is set life and deaththe blessing and the curse.Therefore, we choose lifethat we may invite not only Elijahbut the spring into our homes,that we may set an exampleof compassion and of lovefor the things of His kingdom,the new fleeced lambs in the fieldswhose...

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Paschal Offerings– Jen SteinThis year, on the seder plateinstead of the bloodied shank bonewe place a cluster of sweet grapeswhich serve as a symbol of fertility,of new life and abundance.We choose this, life, and not death:for before us is set life and deaththe blessing and the curse.Therefore, we choose lifethat we may invite not only Elijahbut the spring into our homes,that we may set an exampleof compassion and of lovefor the things of His kingdom,the new fleeced lambs in the fieldswhose...