Read Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Teenage Essay on the Holocaust

My Own Words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s new collection of her legal writings, which appears to double as a professional semi-autobiography, feels like a long time coming. The Supreme Court Justice and liberal lioness has today become an outspoken cult hero, although she was widely rebuked recently for coming out against Donald Trump, a growing chorus of which she cannot be a proud member because of that whole SCOTUS job thing. Anyway, she’s no-no-no-notorious and enjoys wine and is cool in my book.

And there’s an essay in her new book that makes RBG, who grew up in Brooklyn, stand out even more in my eyes because it’s something that reveals her humanity and her ability to express her emotions and grapple with the realities and aftermath of the Holocaust. Written in 1946, when she was just 13 years old, “Ginsburg (then known by her maiden name Bader) went to both Reform and Orthodox synagogues as a child, the book reveals, before her family found a good fit at the Conservative East Midwood Jewish Center,” reported JTA. “She wondered as a young girl why boys got to do a bar mitzvah at age 13, while “there was no comparable ceremony for me,” a struggle that may have shaped her into the gender equality advocate she is today.”

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