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Spring 1998
In this issue: Women reclaim Purim. (After reading this landmark section, you will never see a hamantasch the same way again!) How to celebrate Holy Body Day. Shlomo Carlebach’s paradoxical legacy to women: religious inclusivity alongside sexual misconduct. Pre-war German by Gertrud Kolmar. Who will say Kaddish?
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s Shadow Side
by Sarah Blustain
He preached the lessons of unconditional love, and his music was adored world-wide. But what was his legacy to women?
Husband And Wife
poetry by Rebekah Edwards
Passover
poetry by Thilde Fox
Our [Meaning Women’s] Book-of-Esther Problem
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
A 12-Page Lilith Feature By Rabbi Susan Schnur
- From Prehistoric Cave Art to Your Cookie Pan by Susan Schnur
- The Womantasch Triangle by Susan Schnur
- The Once and Future Womantasch by Susan Schnur
Retrieving Gertrud Kolmar
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Published in English for the first time, two novels of pre-war Germany reflect their author’s tormented life of anti-Semitism, troubled motherhood, and a brooding sexuality.
Surviving Love
fiction by Susan Thaler
The End of a Love Story
Making Book on Women’s Lives
Why Jewish Girls Starve Themselves
Depressed? Lonely? Start Pulling Some Strings
Noted in the Press
Women and Power
Sarah Wallis on Treif Jews: Feminism and a Living Torah
Mimi Bluestone on In a World of Women-Centered Politics
Susan Sapiro on “Under My Hat”
Eleanor J. Bader on “Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a Feminist Sampler”
Dee Fuller on “A Heart of Wisdom: Making the Jewish Journey from Midlife Through the Elder Years”
Karen Prager Kramer on “Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History”
Natalie Blitt on “The Red Tent”
Tamara Fishman on “Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture”