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Fall 2013
In this issue: Our reproductive selves—meet a powerful repro-rights foremother; a ritual for when the abortion on the table is your own; the unspoken grief of I.V.F.; introducing Generation Midwife, and more. Erica Jong reveals her fears about “Fear of Flying” 40 years later. The missing piece in the new Shlomo Carlebach musical. What women architects can teach us about “relational creativity.” And how did Los Angeles become the source of all this woman-led, game-changing, Jewish energy?
Why L.A.? Why Women? And Why Now?
by Liz Safirstein Leshin
Rabbis, restauranteurs, radical filmmakers. From Sharon Brous to Jill Soloway, how did Los Angeles become the source of all this woman-led, game-changing, Jewish energy?
- Mayim Bialik: Exposing Herself While Dressing Modestly by Liz Safirstein Leshin
- Suzanne Tracht & Racelle Rosett: The Ultimate Seder — Food and Storytelling to Understand Who We Are by Liz Safirstein Leshin
- Marcia (Marty) Cohn Spiegel: A Trailblazer for L.A. Women by Liz Safirstein Leshin
Revising Our Ideas about Collective Inspiration
by Esther Sperber
What women architects can teach us about “relational creativity” and how
we define achievement.
- Jews, Women, Architects. At the Same Time. by Melissa Tapper Goldman
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Our Reproductive Selves
- Abortion Foremother by Merle Hoffman
- Ambivalence: When the Abortion on the Table Is Your Own by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur
- A Ritual for Abortion by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur
- Generation I.V.F. by Miriam Zoll
- Don’t Say “VAGINA” By Sarah Erdreich
- Generation Midwife Jessica Angelson talks to Susan Schnur
Right to Left
fiction by Lee Conell
Shame
poetry by Karen Alkalay-Gut
At 40, “Fear of Flying”
by Aryanna Garber
Though initially categorized as smut, the screaming, liberating voices of this body-and-soul narrative can’t be silenced. Find out why.
Ilana Kurshan on "The Wayward Moon"
Elissa Goldstein on "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P."
“Some kids got Disney, I got the Holocaust.”
Tahneer Oksman on "The Big Feminist But: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism"
Yona Zeldis McDonough on "Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoos"
Ilana Kurshan on "The People of Forever Are Not Afraid" and "New Face in the Mirror"