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In this issue: In prison for drug-dealing and even violent crimes, Jewish women serving long terms talk about anti-Semitism behind bars and their once-a-week Jewish women’s group. Vanguard or rear guard: what Jewish women’s volunteer organizations really do to women. The television docudrama “Holocaust” and the selling of assimilation: a feminist critique. The work of photographer Gail Rubin, murdered in Israel.
A Jewish Women’s Community-Behind Bars
by Susan Weidman Schneider
Seven Jewish women serving long terms in a New York State jail talk about life behind bars—-particularly oppressive because of the anti-Semitism of other prisoners and guards. What helps keep them going is their once-a-week Jewish women's group.
Volunteerism: The Great Debate
The great debate
- The Volunteer Organizations by Paula Hyman
- The Experience of Two Volunteers by Pearl Water
- The Experience of Two Volunteers by Betty Lieberman
- The Sheltered Workshop by Aviva Cantor
Gail Rubin
by Amy Stone
A photo memorial of Gail Rubin, 39 years old when terrorist bullets ended her life. With her acute appreciation of the world, she found elegance in everything she photographed.
Our Fourmothers
poetry by Elsa Nad
Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel through the eyes of a poet.
TV’s “Holocaust”
by Aviva Cantor
The much-publicized "docu-drama" projected the subliminal message that only assimilated Jewish men, like its hero Rudi, can fight—-and survive. It is no accident that none of the Jewish women in the TV mini-series was allowed to be heroic-—or to live. A feminist critique.
Bloodroot
fiction by Enid Levinger Powell
"You don’t look Jewish," she was told. Her grandmother had taught her that this was no compliment.
Record Number of Women Studying to be Rabbis
First Jewish Woman in Chaplaincy Program
Decision Near on Women Conservative Rabbis
Bay Area Jewish Women Told : “Reclaim Our History”
Jews not All-the-Way on E.R.A
Report Card on Sexist Education
Israeli Feminists – From Theory to Action
Exemptions Eased for Religious Women in Israeli Army
Feminism no Burning Issue for Jewish Students
Our Soviet Sisters “Guardian Angel” in Siberia
Women Refuseniks Organize
Mazel Tov
No Longer Among Us
Oy Vey
Reena Sigman Friedman on “The Maimie Papers”
Bonnie Gordon on “Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy,”
Diane Levenberg on “Periods of Stress”