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Summer 1992
In this issue: Documents from medieval Spain reveal a housemaid’s incriminating testimony and make the Inquisition appallingly real. Blu Greenberg’s “Revolution in Small Steps” brings feminism into Orthodox Judaism. A “Red-Diaper Daughter” grows up in a 1950s Marxist-Jewish family. An innovative rabbi hikes new converts to a hot-springs mikveh. Roberta Kalechovsky explains becoming vegetarian.
Red – Diaper Daughter
by Ilana Girard Singer
Growing up in a Jewish-Marxist family in the frightened ‘50s, the author feels alien in white-bread America—-and estranged from rye-bread America, too.
Feminism Within Orthodoxy
by Blu Greenberg
Is feminism possible within Orthodoxy, or is it oxymoronic? Greenberg, in this state-of-the Union message, defies both right and left, and insists—-through an accretion of radical anecdote—-that women are launching Orthodox Judaism inexorably into gender equality.
Legajoo 162: The Rediscovered Case of Isabel Lopez, Burned at the Stake November 30, 1518
by Claudia Wise with Susan Schnur
New documents from medieval Spain bring to life a Spanish-Jewish woman who could have been us—-had we lived 500 years ago. Homely but incriminating testimonies from Isabel Lopez’s housemaids make the Inquisition painfully real. Plus...how Isabel Lopez’s relationship to Catholicism makes Wise ponder her own conversion to Judaism.
RU-486
Sharon Lieberman and Andrea Boroff Eagen
This is the other fight for abortion rights. The abortifacient drug that has been lurking at the periphery of our consciousness is being kept out of the U.S. by those who don’t much like Jews or women.
Hot Springs Mikveh
by Marna Sapsowitz
Two Jews-by-choice and their funky feminist rabbi pack hiking shoes and a bracha for a dip in the hot springs of the Pacific Northwest.
Myself Surprised at Becoming a Jewish Vegetarian
by Roberta Kalechofsky
If, as the author posits, in Judaism the sensual precedes the intellectual, how do you give up Bubbie’s delicious brisket for tofu?
The Back of Men’s Heads
by Hedy Markowitz
A Kurdish boy's Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall brings an intimacy of strangers, and what feels like a blessing from the grave.
Women on the Road to Peace: Between Love and Hate, Many Shades of Feeling
Jewish- and African-Americans
Gagged by Red Tape: Israeli Bureaucracy Limits Women’s Access to Information on Abortion
Feminist Philanthropy
The Umbrella Tree
A Liberal Education
The Global Anthology of Jewish Women Writers
A Ceremonies Sampler
Tradition in a Rootless World
Generations of Memories
And the Bridge is Love
Rachel Kadish on “Hagar the Egyptian: The Lost Tradition of the Matriarchs”
Susan Schnur on “Womanwords: A Dictionary of Words About Women”
Karen Prager on “Mars and Her Children”
Hadar Dubowsky on “Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook”
Beth Uval on “Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel”
Susan Schnur on “Rescuers: Portraits in Moral Courage”
Susan Schnur on “Come Chelm or High Water”