My grandmother, Rae Stern, was born 50 years too early for the feminist movement, but 80 years before the drugs that might have helped her take advantage of it. My grandmother was the rabbi’s wife. The rabbi was my grandfather, and the synagogue in question was Temple Sinai, the large Reform synagogue in Oakland. My…
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