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Spring 1990/5750
In this issue: Deena Metzger on the gory Bible story of Dinah, raped. Bat Mitzvah in the divorce crossfire. Anxiety 101: how a young man leads Passover seder for the first time. An Israeli Jew, a Catholic feminist, and a nun speak their minds about Poland and Jews.
What Dinah Thought of the Whole Matter is not Recorded
by Deena Metzger
Finally the biblical figure of Dinah in a modern incarnation. In an excerpt from a moving new novel, we read about an American woman in Israel today who reenacts part of her story.
Anxiety 101: Leading the Passover Seder
by Jeff Axelbank
Judaism is such a public religion! So participatory! So have a little pity for a young man who takes on the task of leading his relatives through the desert--and even through the dessert--trying to meet everyone’s needs.
Near Quiet Places: Twelve Days in Poland
by Yehudit Hendel, translated by Barbara Harshav
Israeli author Hendel, here translated by Barbara Harshav, gives us a haunting, bone-chilling vision of this memory soaked land. Plus observations by two Christian women--on Poland today.
When will we come to understand the Jews as they do themselves?
by Sister Rose Thering
Milk
poetry by Shirley Kaufman
“Who has Made Me Woman”
by Elyse Goldstein
Rabbi Elyse Goldstein creates a personal ritual for menstruation.
After the Revolution in Poland Today, Woman Still Sweep the Floors
by Mary E. Hunt
Israel’s Broadcasting Authority Silences Women’s Voices
Women and Power, B’nai Brith Style
20 Years Later, Younger Women Still Debate “Feminisms”
U.S. Women Sue for Women’s Rights at the Wall
500 Women Attend Jewish Feminist Conference
Woman Cantor Breaks Tradition in Yugoslavia
Gail Rubin Memorialized
Obituaries