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Fall 1999
In this issue: Lilith examines programs for Jewish teenage girls, a new take on challenges to girls’ bodies, relationships with American Girl dolls and powerful kids books, both censored and approved. Unsung heroines: Jewish women who fought for civil rights in 1960’s south. An author who recently discovered she is Jewish discusses how terrifying it is to expose what has been hidden.
Noga
translated by Naomi Danis
Selections from Israel's Feminist Magazine
- Money is the Name of the Game: Women in the Israeli Welfare State
- Women's Basketball? Yes
- Detective Fiction: A Suitable Job for a Woman
Unsung Heroines of the ’60s
by Debra L. Schultz
Women in the civil rights movement integrated bus terminals, taught in Freedom Schools, registered black voters and served time in Southern jails. Now they talk frankly about the danger, their mothers' reactions, and what in their Jewish consciousness propelled them.
- Why I Tracked Them Down by Debra L. Schultz
- Our Unsung Civil Rights Movement Heroines by Debra L. Schultz
- The Golden Ghetto's Shame by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Milk
fiction by Racelle Rosett Schaefer
A Whole New World for Girls
- Clueless? by Susan Weidman Schneider
- Breasts - Check Them Out by Susannah Jaffe
- Spirituality for Girls by Naomi Goodman
- No More GYN Dread! by Sarah Blustain
- BBG! Mind! Body! Attitude! by Susannah Jaffe
- Violence in Teen Relationships by Naomi Goodman
- Living Full Jewish Lives in a Barbie Doll World by Karen L. Smith
- Girls and Food by Sarah Blustain
- Dolls to Live By by Naomi Goodman
- Molly's Christmas Dilemma by Susannah Jaffe
- Judy Blume and the Embarrassment Factor by Mark Oppenheimer
- Carol Matas on the Fear Factor by Carol Matas
- Miriam; The Deeper Song by Naomi Goodman
- If You Could Be My Friend by Susannah Jaffe
- Speed of Light by Susannah Jaffe
- Star of Luis by Talya Lieberman
- Grown-Ups Analyze Kid's Books by Naomi Danis
- When the Beginning Began by Maren Lange
- Strong Female Characters, One of Them a Lamb by Talia Milgrom-Elcott
What Madeleine Albright Couldn’t Know
by Helen Fremont
An author who only recently discovered that her own parents were Jews illuminates how terrifying it can be to expose what has been hidden, and how tempting it is to let sleeping secrets lie.
Unexpected Feminist Poems, from the Hebrew
- My Mother Was a Prophet poetry by Yehuda Amichai; translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
- My Son Was Drafted poetry by Yehuda Amichai; translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
- “Unborn” from Leviticus Rabba 14:8; translated by Shirley Kaufman with Galit Hasan-Rokem
- To My Country poetry by Rahel; translated by Robert Friend
Embroidery As Prayer
by Kay Faye Fialkoff
Judy Blume and the Embarrassment Factor
Carol Matas on "The Primrose Path," "Sworn Enemies" and "Daniel's Story"
Naomi Goodman on "Miriam" and "The Deeper Song"
Susannah Jaffe on "If You Could Be My Friend"
Susannah Jaffe on "Speed of Light"
Talya Lieberman on "Star of Luis"
Maren Lange on "When the Beginning Began"
Naomi Danis on "In the Night Kitchen," "Inside Picture Books" and "Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom"
Talia Milgrom-Elcott on "Raisel's Riddle," "When Mama Gets Home," and "Pearl's Marigolds"
Linda K. Kerber on "Betty Friedan: Her Life" and "Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique"
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel on "Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust" and " Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust"
Susan Weidman Schneider on "Marrow and Other Stories"
Natalie Blitt on "The River Midnight"
Naomi Danis on "Kosher Sex"