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Summer 1997
In this issue: Ilana Trachtman on a totally different bridal shower. You are what you wear, so check those labels; Sarah Wildman alerts you to today’s sweatshops. New commandments: Shabbat without shopping carts, and Deena Metzger’s ecology epiphany. Meet Moosewood Cookbook’s creator; Emily Bazelon asks Mollie Katzen why she did it. A poem about a Jewish drunk.
Kisses and Ashes
fiction by Fredric Fastow
Returning to Auschwitz, a Holocaust survivor finds her way back to a confluence of love and desire.
Move Over Martha Stewart
by Ilana Trachtman
How to throw a different kind of Jewish wedding shower. Clip and save this for the next time you’re a bridesmaid!
You Are What You Wear
by Sarah Wildman
Check your labels! Almost a century after the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire brought to light the dismal reality of sweatshops, we’re still wearing clothing made under inhumane conditions—only we often don’t realize why.
Women Find Those Extra Commandments God’s Been Keeping in Her Back Pocket
by Susan Schnur
Rabbi Susan Schnur introduces us to a maturing integration of tradition and feminism, combining the canon and “tincture-of-girl.”
- The 11th Commandment Brought down from Sinai by Deena Metzger
- Shabbat Without Shopping Carts by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell
- Too Busy to Read this Article? Save it for Shabbat by Susan Schnur
Shicker
poetry by Sondra Zeidenstein
Under the Spell of Silken Tofu
by Emily Bazelon
What we learned from the Moosewood, and how Mollie Katzen’s cooking enchanted a whole generation. This Fall she’ll bring us a new vegetarian cookbook.
Lilith Speaks
poetry by Alison Stone