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Summer 1990/5750
In this issue: The anti-Semitism underneath anti-abortion rhetoric–You may have more to lose than your right to choose. Chilean poet Marjorie Agosin on the evils for Latin American Jewish women face… New rituals to help you through divorce, miscarriage and more. Vanessa Ochs explores gender differences in Jewish learning, in Jerusalem.
The Anti-choice Movement: Bad News For Jews
by Susan Weidman Schneider
What are the anti-Semitic roots of the current anti-abortion rhetoric? We may have more to lose than our right to choose.
Marjorie Agosin: A Woman, A Jew and A Chilean
by Susan Schnur
The evils Latin American Jewish women confront are inexpressibly different from what scares or angers us in Los Angeles, Tulsa or New York. Agosin, a poet and scholar, tries to tell us about the demons her women face.
On the Path To Power: Women Decode the Talmud in Their Own Style
by Vanessa Ochs
Into the Future with the Rituals From Our Past
by Susan Schnur
We’ve written about women changing ritual; now we learn how new rituals change the women who use them.
- The New Improved Jewish Divorce: Hers/His by Vicki Hollander
- A Midwife's Kaddish by Diane Solomon
- ...And An Anthropologist Says… by Riv-Ellen Prell
T.V. Men: Wimps Or What
by Maria Stieglitz
Reconsidering “Ms. Daisy”
by Barbara Quart
Beyond Belly Joy: Weddings For The Socially Responsible
by Shoshana Jedwab
For everyone who's ever wondered if Jewish weddings have to be "that way"… Shoshana Jedwab takes us "Beyond 'Belly Joy.' "
Finding Homes For Jewish Babies
New Rabbinical College Excludes Women
Helping Poor Women Afford Abortions
Women Direct Moscow Film Festival
Bringing Feminism To Camp Ramah
Synagogues Sponsor Aids Dinners
Mazel Tov
Obits
Uja Mission To Israel Includes Feminist Bus
Joan Joffe Hall on “Remember Who You Are: Stories About Being Jewish”
Alicia Ostriker on “Sarah's Daughters Sing: A Sampler of Poems by Jewish Women”
Eleanor Bader on “Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them and What We Do With Them”
JJH on “Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish”
Pamela Renner on “The Great Letter E”