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Summer 2014
In this issue: women re-make the tashlich ritual, experience conversion, go defiantly to college, recount their kisses. A firsthand account of a terror attack in Jerusalem. A feminist wields an accordion. What the Bible left out about Lot’s wife. Decoding contemporary Russian-Jewish novels and Roz Chast’s sorrowful humor. Plus: what happens when a feminist goes to summer camp?
The Shabbat Before Her Wedding
a poem by Jamie Wendt
A Feminist Camp Counselor Unpacks Her Baggage
Maya Zinkow
Is camp a place for exploration —or indoctrination? Maya Zinkow speaks out on sex, ritual and gender identity in Jewish summer camp.
The Art of Ornament
Laura Kruger
From Yemenite wedding ornaments to daring modernist designs, Israel’s creators of wearable art cross cultural divides. How did they become such boundary breakers?
The Explosion
Natasha Basin Levina, translated by Sonia Melnikova-Raich
The writer witnesses terrorism from her kitchen and can’t make sense of why her face is front-page news.
Change Beckons
Susan Schnur
- Hear, O Israel: How My Church-Going Boyfriend Made Me a Jew Deborah L. Blicher
- Hineni: Here I Am Gail Hosking
- A Woman's Tashlich Susan Schnur with Marcia Falk
Cut Loose
Leah Vincent
In which a seventeen-year-old struggles to live solo in New York, sent away by her ultra-Orthodox family.