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Fall 1990/5750
In this issue: Susan Weidman Schneider interviews Israeli Knesset Member Yael Dayan about her dreams for peace, her famous father, and why women matter in Israeli politics. How female rabbis are shifting traditional hierarchical relationships. Jewish women in Chile probe their identities, together. AIDS in the Jewish community.
Night of the Staircase
by Ada Aharoni and Thea Wolf
"Night of the staircase," an Egyptian memoir by Ada Aharoni and Thea Wolf
Yael Dayan
by BH
Pragmatic Israeli politico Dayan talks about her dreams for peace, her famous father and her own political aspirations. Plus--our Tel Aviv correspondent Barbara Harshav and lawyer Miriam Benson update us on how Israeli women’s issues are faring right now.
Reworking The Rabbi’s Role
by Julie Coss
Moving beyond the traditional hierarchical relationships, women rabbis today differ from their male counterparts. Here we find out how their congregations gain, and what the costs are for the women themselves.
In A Cafe
by Sara Felder
See the bagels fly! Hear the croissants speak! Step right up for words and action from Felder, a juggler who keeps her identity components in the air from coast to coast.
Requiem for Oma Berta
poetry by Anneliese Wagner
A Precious Moment in Chile
by Hilary Marcus
Jewish college women in Chile
Our Lives, Circa 1919
by Maxine Schwartz Seller
What we can learn about life and loves of the emerging woman, circa 1919.
Teenagers Confront Our Past in Poland
For Families Touched by AIDS
Raising Awareness of AIDS in Israel
Making Jews Visible to Academic Feminists
The Cantors Assembly Convention: A Spy Story
Women Cantors Hold Their Own Convention
Rediscovering and Creating a Women’s Literature
Spunky Woman
What Soviet Anti-Semitism Looks Like Now
Jewish Singles Introductions Go Global
Ruth Knafo Setton on “America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers”
Sue Levi Elwell on “Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective”
RK on “Women's Rights Pioneer”
RK on “Daddy's Home! Reflections of a Family Man”
Carole L. Glickfeld on “The Classic Tales, 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore”
Ruth Schnur on “Mothers”