![]() ![]() Ladin left home at sixteen years old to attend Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in creative writing and social science. ![]() Ladin has also said that Judaism kept her alive during her childhood while she struggled with gender dysphoria. Her interest in the rituals of Judaism and attending synagogue provided a socially acceptable language for her to articulate her (gendered) differences from her non-observant family. Ladin’s creative theology, therefore, has its roots in her childhood. ![]() While Ladin received some formal Jewish instruction as a result of her mother’s efforts, she has also stated that because she did not receive a strong Jewish education, she was able to invent the Judaism she needed. To foster her children’s Judaism, Lola Ladin encouraged Joy to attend both synagogue services and Hebrew school. While Ladin’s father was largely detached from Jewish ritual and tradition, Ladin’s mother was committed to an ethnic Jewish identity. Irving Ladin’s family were labor organizers with connections to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Both her parents came from non-observant Jewish households, and both were children of immigrants. ![]() Joy Ladin was born in 1961 to Lola and Irving Ladin in Rochester, New York. ![]()
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