Readers Respond

Jewish Women Take to the Streets

Strikes (MOMA and sex workers).  Lori Berenson.  Our sisters taking on Washington.  It looks like a new dawn for Jewish women activists.  

• Marching Against Moma by Leslie Hollis
• Protesting Dr. Laura's Bias by Sarah Blustain
• Challenging Incumbents by Sarah Blustain
• A Step Toward Freedom?
• What A Few Can Do by Sarah Blustain
• Sex Workers Unite! by Sarah Blustain

Sex and Shame in a Different Era

• The “Illegitimate” Daughter Tells Her Birth Mother's Story by Michele Kriegman
• Secrets and Lies: The ”Out-of-Wedlock” Son Finds Them Out by David Siff
• “Get Rid of the Baby. Let's Go Home.” by Campbell Armstrong

Warsaw Diary: Democracy in the Balance

by Shana Penn

Warsaw is seeing a backlash of anti-Semitism and anti-feminism. Here, meet some of the outspoken Jewish women leading the charge for tolerance. 

“God Has Many Messengers”

by Anna Schnur-Fishman

A wise-for-her-age 13-year-old holds her bat mitzvah in a nursing home, where the elders help her deal with loss and change. She has some great ideas for them, too.

Jewish Chicken Soup

poetry by Emma Rosenthal

Women with Ph.D.’s and Their Mothers

by Charlotte Margolis Goodman

Which is more valued: a clean house or a completed dissertation? The balabusta or the professor? Two generations of women discuss the tensions.

Andrea Adds

by Andrea Goodman Hansell

A daughter's perspective

The Myth of La Streisand

by Rachel Kranson

Have you ever been told you look just like Barbara Streisand?  She's been the metaphor for so many things Jewish and female.  As she retires, a scholar/fan reflects on the myth.