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Fall 2000
In this issue: “Husband of Valor:” laugh out loud this Purim. Feminists in the pulpit show how to diversify your synagogue. A new law protects women from sex trafficking in Israel. A natural history of divorce. Lillian’s Hellman’s film classic, “Julia.” The mitzvah of preparing a friend’s body for the grave.
When Jewish Women Care for Others
by Susan Weidman Schneider
New legal, social and very personal issues come into play. Here’s some guidance.
It Helps to Be a Feminist
by Sarah Blustain
If you’re a rabbi trying to open up your synagogue to Jews with diverse needs, feminist forbears in the pulpit (or on the ground) show how to succeed at changemaking.
“Let My Husband Die”
by Ann Moliver Ruben
The author's beloved husband was raced to the hospital after a stroke; why did she try, and fail, to let him die? Here, also, a prayer if you have to remove life support from a parent, a poem by Sharon Olds, and clues to choosing someone to make health-care decisions for you.
- A Prayer of Trust adapted from Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
- The Promise poetry by Sharon Olds
- What to Do resources compiled by Caryn Tamber
- Where to Turn resources compiled by Caryn Tamber
- What It Means resources compiled by Caryn Tamber
Equality Soldiers on in Israel
by Helen Schary Motro
The Knesset passes three revolutionary laws protecting women from sex trafficking, discrimination and harassment...And in New York, women are "honored" at the Israeli consulate.
Ladies’ Day at the Israeli Consulate
by Amy Stone
A Husband of Valor
poetry by Susan Ellman
A Natural History of Divorce
by Judyth Har Even
My First Aliyah
by Marianne Langner Zeitlin
Wherein a grown woman caught without a hankie in the web of her own memories, cries her eyes out.
Still Life with Poodles
fiction by Valerie Ann Leff
A short story about the single life
Change
poetry by Irene Simon Sipos
Julia Revisited
by Bonnie J. Morris
Coming out as a Jew and a lesbian watching Lillian Hellman's classic story on the big screen
Ties That Bind
by Michelle Friedman
A psychiatrist joins the chevra kadisha and finds herself preparing a friend's body for the grave.
Tales of life and death, orphanages and escapes, rescues and friendship mark this Fall's rich harvest.
Arielle R. Derby on “Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt”
Naomi Danis on “Dave at Night”
Susannah Jaffe on “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer”
Caryn Tamber on “Halinka”
Nonye Gilliard-Sullivan on “Saying It Out Loud”
Arielle R. Derby on “Baby's Bris,” and “Rosie and the Mole,”
Karen L. Smith on “Making the Body Beautiful:A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery,” and “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”
Chanita Baumhaft on “Garden Primitives,” “Foreign Brides,” “The Law of Return,” “The Free Thinkers: Two Novellas,” and “The County of Birches”
Pamela S. Nadell on “The World Split Open,” “The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America,1900-1918,” and “The Feminine Mystique”
Alicia Ostriker on “Coiming Home to Jerusalem” and “Intifada”
Amy Stone on “Discovering Jewish Meditation: Instruction & Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice”
Debbie Perlman on “tkhines,” “Voices of the Matriarchs,” and “Siddur Sim Shalom”