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Winter 2008-2009
In this issue: Daughters on mothers: five dramatically different first-person accounts of the story that never goes away. After her husband suffers a brain injury, Alix Kates Shulman’s love has to bend. How a long-ago cousin in Eretz Israel ran off with the Muslim Turkish governor of Ottoman Palestine. Italy’s only female rabbi. New fiction: “Sima’s Undergarments for Women.”
Sima’s Undergarments for Women
fiction by Ilana Stanger-Ross
The Shekhinah Sh’ma: Six Little Words to Shake the World
by Ariadne Lieber and Rabbi Susan Schnur
The Sh’ma, Judaism’s most famous prayer, radically rewritten for women.
What Beauty Does
by Alix Kates Shulman
When her husband suffers a debilitating brain injury, Shulman’s world, and her love, have to bend.
Daughters on Mothers
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
The Story That Never Goes Away
- Fated To Be Ahead of Her Time by Amy Katz
- Only One of Us Can Wear This Dress, Ma by Laurie Deutsch Mozian
- “If Hitler Didn’t Kill Me, You Will” by Evie Litwok with Susan Schnur
- Submergence by Esther Moritz
- Left Behind by Eva White
- Mother, I’ll Always Take Care of You by Rebecca Himber Berg
Fanny in Ottoman Palestine
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
In 1914, she ran away from her Jewish home in Palestine with the Turkish governor, a Muslim. Turns out this forgotten foremother, a distant cousin, now fits beautifully into Alexiou’s own complex family mosaic.
The plague is the “to do” list
poetry by Bonnie J. Morris
Peace is the blithe distraction
poetry by Lynn Levin
Another “First and Only” – Italy’s Rabbi Barbara Aiello
Religious Feminism Finally Makes it in Israel
A Transgender Teacher at Yeshiva
Art from the Womb
No Fear of Flying
Judith Ruskay Rabinor on "Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia"
Naomi Danis on "Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet"
Idra Novey on "Fidelity"
Yaëlle Azagury on "David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair"
Rachel Barenblat on "Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday"
Leah Koenig on "The Book of New Israeli Food"
Debra L. Schultz on "The German Bride"
Debra Reed Blank on "A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book"
Judy Gerstel on "Holding My Breath"
Jordana Horn on "Certain Girls"