Summer 1986

My Children Are Disappeared: an Argentine mother’s nightmare. A feminist rabbi reclaims mikveh. Why Jewish women get raped, and how to stop it.

Spring 1987

Racism & sexism meet in South Africa. Aviva Cantor interviews Vitke Kempner, WWII partisan. Campaigning to free Soviet prisoner Ida Nudel.

Fall 1987

JAP-baiting on campus. Jewish men: detoxifying our relationships. Reading the writing on the wall: German Jewish women who saw what was coming.

Winter 1987-1988

Is Israel liberating for Ethiopian women? Poetry about Jewish women in love through the ages. Prisoners of divorce: abusive husbands, women in limbo.

Spring 1988

The struggle to juggle work and life: a Lilith survey. Motherhood and the “new” infertility. A Roaring 20s Yiddish lesbian play.

Summer 1988

Stopping violence in Jewish families. The last taboo: Incest. A women’s Mideast peace dialogue you don’t know about.

Fall 1988

Nine political issues for the 1990s. A ceremony for a first period. Sacred moments from Fran Liebowitz, Debbie Friedman and more.

Winter 1989

Feminists breaking into Jewish scholarship. Spy wives take the heat—from Ethel Rosenberg to Annie Pollard.

Spring 1989

Family systems: pioneer therapist Olga Silverstein on life, love and Jewish identity. Campus life for Jewish women.

Summer 1989