In this issue: Sex and shame in a different era: Jewish women who relinquished their babies for adoption. Roseanne Barr meets the baby she gave up. Women with PhDs, and their mothers. Barbra Streisand becomes a metaphor. Jewish feminists rally for tolerance in Warsaw. A girl’s nursing home Bat Mitzvah.
Strikes (MOMA and sex workers). Lori Berenson. Our sisters taking on Washington. It looks like a new dawn for Jewish women activists.
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.
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.
poetry by Emma Rosenthal
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.
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.
Anita Altman on “Not to People Like Us: Domestic Abuse in Upscale Families”
Susan Sapiro on “The Literary Imagination of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women: An Assessment of a Writing Community”
David J. Zucker and Bonita E. Taylor on “The Road to Fez”
Yona Zeldis McDonough on “Star in My Forehead: Selected Poems by Else Lasker-Schuler”
What's New on Lilith's Shelves
Naomi Danis on "The Chimney Tree"