A Process Without End: Seeking the Unrealized Yet Irrepressible Aspects of Self

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Notes

¹I would like to acknowledge the influence of other members of the minyan project through the presentations we have given together: Beverly Greene, Andrea Bergman, Claire Holzman, Sophia Richman, Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, and Sara Zarem. I would like to thank K. M. Crosson for feedback and suggestions (for the title and the reference to Adrienne Rich's “Split at the Root”) and Meg Harmsen for comments on an earlier version of this work.

²This account of my family is solely my point of view, and some information has been changed to protect the identities of others.

³Very observant married Jewish women cover their head in public, whether it is through wearing a wig or alternative covering. My grandfather requested that my grandmother always wear a wig, which was hot and unflattering.

⁴This work is described in depth in Glassgold, J. M. (2008). Bridging the divide: Integrating lesbian identity and orthodox judaism. Women & Therapy, 31(1), 59–72.