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Spring 1993
In this issue: Out of Africa: An Ethiopian Jewish woman’s story of journeying pregnant through Sudan to reach the promised land of Israel. How summer camp can be where you learn to be both a Jew and a woman. A Jew and a gentile are reunited at a class reunion. Adult children of Holocaust survivors talk about their yearning for intimacy.
Out of Africa
by Kessaye Tevajieh as told to Penina V. Adelman
Pregnant while walking though the Sudan, giving birth in the desert, Kessaye comes to the promised land propelled by her indomitable will.
How Our Mothers Nursed Us: The Children of Holocaust Survivors Revisit Their Infancy
by Dina Wardi
Adult children of Holocaust survivors talk about their yearning for intimacy in an unusual therapy group.
Identity Politics at Summer Camp
by Hadar Dubowsky
For campers, some questions to ask; for counselors, some terrific feminist programs and resources; for parents, a checklist of what you really need to bring on visiting day.
Separating
by Ruth Berger Goldston
Havdalah, the ritual moment when one says farewell to Sabbath and faces the week ahead, provides the theme and the symbols for helping a woman friend get through her divorce.
Women’s Hall of Fame
A Jewish Feminist Contribution to Multiculturalism
Anti-Choice, Anti-Jew
A New Spin on an Old Tradition: Bringing in the Bride
Rape on Kibbutz
“Hate Issues are Hot Now,” Says TV Producer
Susan Schnur on “Out of the Depths I Call You: A Book of Prayers for the Married Jewish Woman”
Susan Schnur on "The Big Lie: A True Story"
Susan Schnur on “The Secret in Bubbie's Attic”
Hadar Dubowsky on “Shayna Maidels: Orthodox Teenage Girls” and H.D. on “The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era ”
In Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound
Kathy Sillman on “Slow Fire”
Excerpt from "The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women's Prayers"
Molly Abramowitz on “Hot Chicken Wings”
Molly Abramowitz on “Someday Songs: Poems Toward a Personal History”
Rachel Kadish on “My Jewish Face & Other Stories”
Rachel Kadish on “Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World”
Rachel Kadish on “Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction”
Rachel Kadish on “Jewish Women's Awareness Guide: Connections for the Second Wave of Jewish Feminism”
A Peephole into the World of Ultra-Orthodox Men