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Winter 1988-1989
In this issue: Lilith discusses the emergence of feminists into Jewish scholarship and how their terrain is different. Sara Nelson talks about her work as an AIDS volunteer. June Barsky rethinks the Pollard and Rosenberg spy cases from a feminist viewpoint. Ruth Mason’s tribute to a Bukharian mother’s cooking.
Our True Legacy: Radical Jewish Women in America
by Janet Zandy
Finding role models—-from the turn of the century to last week—-in Jewish women who have tried to change the world.
Turning
poetry by Adrienne Rich
The Rituals of Death
by Betsy Kaplan
A group of women take on the ritual responsibilities of preparing women’s bodies for burial according to Jewish law and custom. Why, what they did, and how the experience changed them.
A Weary Optimist on Peace Dialogues
by Lilly Rivlin
Warily and wearily, a Jerusalem-born American Zionist reveals the details of a decade of one-on-one dialogue with Palestinian, Egyptian, and other Arab women.
The New Power of Palestinian Women
by Reena Bernards
More than twenty years of occupation and a year of the uprising in Israel have helped the women of the West Bank shake off some patriarchal yokes even as they are trying to shake loose politically.
Countertransference
by Michele Bograd
When a feminist psychotherapist faces her own Jewish identity as she treats Jewish patients.
In Grandma’s House
by Toby Joan Rosenstrauch
The secret cupboards and crannies—-and the secret habits—-that exert their magical pull on every visit.
Women Runs Jewish Bookstore in Munich
Jewish Caucus Forms at Women’s Studies Association
Obituaries
“Event” Rediscovers Sarah
Help to The Aged and their Adult Children
A Study of Refusal
Ethiopian Immigrants Start Handicraft Business
Reaching Out to Eastgerman Jews
Mazel Tov
Helping the Hungry and Homeless
Homelessness Circa 1931