Joelle Keene

Joelle Keene, a mother of three, currently teaches music and journalism at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. Prior to this Joelle worked as an award winning newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Seattle Times. Additionally she was a music critic, and served as Associate Editor of OLAM Magazine.

My Beloved Mechitzah

By Joelle Keene

I didn’t know these lovebirds, but there they were, unmistakably just that, standing at Sabbath morning services amid a sea of men and women…