Noga, Israel’s Feminist Magazine

translated by Naomi Danis

• The Reasonable Woman In Court by Dafna Barak-Erez
• The Assassination of Rabin: A Provocative Interpretation
• The Invisible Women of Afghanistan by Erella Daor

Letters

Among the Gypsies

by Toby Sonneman

"My counterparts," she calls German Gypsies, as they share recipes for kuchen and strudel, and a horrifyingly parallel legacy of attempted annihilation.

Motherloss

A section exploring the reverberations through a lifetime when girl's mother dies prematurely

• White Butterflies by Yael Flusberg
• Can You Be a Family Without a Mother? by Lynn Davidman
• The Shame of Having No Mother by Francine Cournos, M.D.
• Mothering Without a Map by Karen Paul-Stern

Conservative Judaism’s Unfinished Business

by Mindell Kaplan (with Responsa from the Rabbis)

Stop! Just when you thought it was safe to use the new prayerbooks! A rabbi’s wife speaks her mind on injustices against women, and claims that he new manual for Conservative rabbis skirts the issues. With responsa from rabbis.

Giving to Ethiopian Immigrant Children

by Michele Chabin

An American journalist in Jerusalem marks a milestone birthday creatively.

My Perfect Family: Two Moms

by Daniel Belasco

Belasco, one of a new generation of Jews raised in a lesbian household, is among the first to speak out about how normal his life was.

The Hudson River School of Tashlikh

In which a quintessential Upper West Side single Jewish woman casts away crumbs with rituals that renew her at Rosh Hashanah.