A Zionist in Spite of Herself

Judy Shotten interviewed by Barbara Gingold

The Canadian-born feminist psychologist - who brought sex therapy to Israel - has been transforming things there since 1949.

What Was a Nice Jewish Girl Like Me Doing in a Man’s Body?

by Joy Ladin

The complicated story of becoming a woman gives a whole new dimension to Rabbi Hillel’s famous creed, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”

• Becoming a Woman at Yeshiva University by Joy Ladin

When Food and Love Collide

by Cynthia Graber

Two kosher-keeping Jews walk into a restaurant… and the true challenges of breaking bread with a partner who has different food rules become painfully apparent.

In The Beginning There Was This: Fat

by Marni Grossman

A young woman recounts a painful struggle, through adolescence and young adulthood, which is only relieved through disordered eating and then 103 cuts.

Dear Editor

fiction by Marcia Slatkin

Three Sisters: Breast Cancer in Our Family

by Sarah Byck

Grappling with the diagnosis, deciding what to do, figuring out how — or whether — to tell the next generation of girls and women that cancer is in their genes.

• Four (Same-Sex, Half-Jewish) Weddings and a Funeral by Susan Goldberg