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Summer 1993
In this issue: Jewish women in their twenties try to figure out who they are and how they fit into the multicultural mix of the emerging generation. How women’s groups are dedicated to overruling the Jewish law that binds women to husbands who refuse to grant divorce. A physician recalls being a medical student in “normalized” Poland immediately following the Holocaust.
Women Unbound
by Naomi Grossman
Jewish law—-which no longer permits animal sacrifices or slave-holding—-still binds married women to husbands who refuse to grant them divorces. Now Jewish women’s groups around the world, declaring this the Year of the Agunah, vow to overturn, overrule, or overwrite the law’s cruel inequity
Riddles of Identity
Four very different Jewish women in their twenties try to figure out who they are, and how they fit into the multicultural mix.
- Herefords, Hebrew and Me by Karen Praqer
- White Jewish Female by Hadar Dubowsky
- I'm Tired of Checking Off "Other" by Robin Beth Schaer
- Mother Tongue fiction by Alina Sivorinovsky
On the Autopsy Table in Lodz…Biebow from Bremen
by Salomea Kape
A Brooklyn physician recalls with bitter irony her experiences as a medical student in a "normalized" Poland in the year immediately following the Holocaust.
Lunch with the Girls
by Leslie Hollis Margulies
...In which the author, mourning the gradual loss of her mother to Alzheimer’s, discovers a generation of women who remember how to laugh.
KOL ISHAH, Literally
A Hip Jewish Role Model
Feminism in the Genes
Jewish Teens Talk about Aids
Northeastern Exposure
An Alternative to Sexist Jewish Children’s Books
Sharon Ravitch on “Feminist Revision and the Bible.”
Sharon Ravitch on “The Wild Mother”
Nora L Mamlel on “Jews, Money & Social Responsibility: Developing a "Torah of Money" for Contemporary Life.”
Sara Nuss-Galles on "The Man Without a World"
Yona zeidis McDonough on “Playing with Fire” and “Fugitive Blue”