Summer 1997

Shabbat without shopping carts. Emily Bazelon on the Moosewood Cookbook. You are what you wear, so check those labels!

Fall 1997

Women challenge their silent fathers. Manic depression: why Jewish women may be at risk. Our former interns dish about life after Lilith.

Winter 1997-1998

Understanding abortion politics. Family secrets, and a hidden sister with developmental disability. One pretty straight lesbian wedding.

Spring 1998

Reclaiming Purim: You will never see a hamantasch the same way again. Two pre-war novels in Germany by Gertrud Kolmar reflect her life.

Summer 1998

Fall 1998

Speaking out as a Jewish woman’s birthright. Deborah Lipstadt on the battle over women’s Holocaust experiences. A hilarious vagina monologue.

Winter 1998-1999

Feminist museum curators tell the story differently. Right-wing women protecting Orthodoxy from feminism. Leslea Newman comes out to her grandma.

Spring 1999

The mohel is a woman! Radical Jewish daughters, from the Spanish Civil War to the offspring of 60’s activists. Dieting to win a mother’s love.

Summer 1999

What happens when a girl's mother dies young. Daniel Belasco on his childhood in a lesbian household. What the conservative movement owes women.

Fall 1999

New takes on challenges to girls’ bodies and powerful books for Jewish teenage girls. Jewish women who fought for civil rights in 1960’s south.