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Winter 1998-1999
In this issue: How museums invent us: A new wave of feminist museum curators tell the Jewish story differently, tchochkes and folk art included. Right wing women protecting Orthodoxy from feminism. An open letter to Buddhist Jews. Leslea Newman comes out to her grandma. Debbie Perlman, our first female psalmist. And … Israel at 51: half a century, but only half the story?
Right-Wing Woman: Keeping Orthodoxy Safe from Feminists?
by Sarah Blustain
While "Modern Orthodox" women seek a harmony between Judaism and feminism, sisters to their right are digging in, sponsoring lectures and classes to draw women (even high-powered careerists) back to home and hearth.
Israel at 51 and Beyond
by Naomi Danis
In half a century, have we heard only half the story? Now you can read about the women—and their projects—you saw nothing about in all the other media coverage of Israel’s anniversary.
- Right and Left: The Petrifaction of Israeli Society by Gail Hareven
- The Second Zionist Revolution by Leah Shakdiel
An Open Letter to Buddhist Jews
by Michele Kriegman
With an ex-husband and extended family who are REAL Buddhists, our author thinks Jews may be worshipping the Buddha for the wrong reasons.
How Museums Invent Us
by Carolyn Feibel
Your great-aunt’s soup pot in a museum? Priceless artifacts in your attic? Introducing the new wave of feminist curators, who’ve fought to have shoes, cookbooks and miscellaneous tchochkes-cum-folk art included in the exhibited history of the Jews.
Objects of Desire
by Carol Bergman
A daughter’s haunting account of her father’s obsession—the naked, strangely mutilated children of painter Egon Schiele. Bergman asks: "Why did he subject me to this work?"
Life
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
Debbie Perlman is the only Resident Psalmist in the world, a job that’s been vacant for 3,000 years. "A new psalm helps people recognize that life has more holy moments in it than we think," she told LILITH.
- Five by Debbie Perlman
- Twenty-Eight by Debbie Perlman
- One Hundred Thirty-One by Debbie Perlman
One Hundred Years of Gratitude
by Lesléa Newman
Why did 99-year-old grandmother have to know? Newman comes out to her beloved grandmother, and the consequences surprise them both.
Francine Klagsbmn on "Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985"
Tamara Fishman on "The Jew Store"
Elaine Starkman on "Apples from the Desert "
Jane Litman on "With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey Into The Heart of Her Faith"