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Spring 2001
In this issue: Jewish women’s breasts! (A whole special section takes a forthright look at breast reduction, that bra-buying expedition and more). One Jewish mother talks about her gay son. What should we know about the Queen of Sheba and her fuzzy legs? Worrying as a second-shift job of every Jewish woman. A new short story from Bee Season’s Myla Goldberg.
The Queen of Sheba’s Fuzzy Legs
by Rachel Kranson
What is a Jewish feminist’s relationship to the Q of S? She has a lot to teach us, and it’s not just about how to seduce a famous king.
Jewish Mothers & Gay Sons
by Sarah Epstein*
What to say and do when you find out your son is gay? One woman knew all along; she clues others in to what in the Jewish world has been good for her son, what hasn’t, and what shrinks and books have been helpful.
Let’s Talk About Breasts
From breast reduction surgery to the minimizer bra, Lilith takes a forthright look at Jewish women with big breasts.
- Breasts Notes Toward a New Cartography by Hanne Blank
- Did You Know the Venus of Willendorf was Jewish? by Sander Gilman
- Who Own My Breasts? by Charlotte Wyman
- One Woman's History of her Breasts by Sarah Blustain
Is Worrying a Jewish Woman’s Second-Shift Job?
by Susan Schnur
Rabbi Susan Schnur introduces us to this exquisite preoccupation.
- The Anatomy of Worry by Jane Bernstein
- Always Buy Gold by Ellen R. Portnoy
- Looking Away by Sharon Levy
In Every Girls Heart
fiction by Myla Goldberg
The author of the buzz novel Bee Season bores a peep-hole into an all girls summer camp.
Matka
poetry by Donna Kaz
Big Horn Passover
by Donna Kaz
David Zucker on “The Wholeness of a Broken Heart”
Yona Zeldis McDonough on "Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel on "Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging" and “The Transcendent Child"
Amy Stone on “Dear Sisters Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement”
Renee Ghert-Zand on "When I Lived in Modern Times"
Amy Stone on "The Woman's Kabbalah: Ecstatic Jewish Practices for Women"