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Winter 1991-1992
In this issue: For women in the Israeli army, sexual harassment, depression, and ingenue/hero marriages. A campus queen struggles to understand the immigrant grandmother who raised her. The circumcision panic of a new father. Sephardic and Ashkenazi cultures clash in the kitchen. Vashti, the Purim tale’s anti-heroine, as a gay guy’s role model.
Purim
poetry by Susan Charles Groth
Sisters unite: the revenge of Vashti and Esther!
His Army Her Army
by Gail Hareven
What happens to women’s worldview when their bosses have more power and less education than they do? A Tel Aviv journalist describes a military system that fosters sexual harassment by men, depression in women, and doomed, ingenue/hero marriages for both.
Homecoming Queen
by Marlene Roberts
Waving stupidly from the back of a flatbed truck at half-time leads a 1950s co-ed to a new understanding of the immigrant grandmother who raised her.
Circumcision
by David Kotzen-Reich
Bris anxiety? All the feelings you’ve ever had against this practice will surface again as this father describes his struggles over whether or not to circumcise a first-born son.
“Santa Kloz Hot Gekhalesht”
by Susan Schnur
An extraordinary piece of agitprop puppet theater by Jenny Romaine adapted from a 1930's, Yiddish Marxist primer. Romaine's toy theater of Terror As Usual will mesmerize you.
The Doctor’s Plot of 1953
by Natalya Rapoport
When Stalin declared that "killer doctors" were deliberately poisoning and infecting the country’s leaders, prominent physicians, mostly Jewish, were rounded up and murdered or exiled. Natalya Rapaport, now a scientist herself, is the daughter of the only survivor of the notorious "doctors’ plot." Here she describes her excruciating ordeal as a 14-year-old who waits for her other parent to disappear, too.
East/West Culture Clash
by Gloria L Kirchheimer
Is crossover eating disloyal? Nibble on and see.
And Vashti Refused: A Gay Man Find a Biblical Role Model
by Gary David Com stock
A gay man finds a role model in the anti-heroine of the Purim story.
Holtzman: Investing with a Conscience
Building on Jewish Values: Teenagers Put Tzedakah to Work
Rita Falbel Singing the Jewish Experience
Computer Shiva-Call On-Line Friendships, Found and Lost
Sexual Harassment in Jewish Organizations
Jewish Community Response to Family Abuse
Sara Brzowsky on “Children With A Star” and “Children Of The Flames”
Susan Schnur on “Gloria Goes to Gay Pride”
Randi Locke on “Ahead of Time”
Eleanor J. Bader on “Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation”
Naomi Danis on “Bible Heroes I Can Be”
Alison Gardy on “Daughters of The Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation”
Mora Rothenberg on “A Portrait of American Mothers and Daughters”
Molly Abramowitz on “Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women”