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Summer 2001
In this issue: The balancing act: teaching teen girls to both love Jewish texts and to challenge their view of women. A young feminist reclaims lighting candles, baking challah and the ritualistic laws of married sex. On being black and Jewish: Mo Fleming and Rebecca Walker. Is fat still a feminist issue? Safeguarding abortion rights.
A Hard Row to Hoe
by Mo Fleming
An African-American woman talks frankly about the joys of becoming Jewish—and about the pain of being insulted by other Jews.
Portrayed, or Betrayed?
by Charlotte Honigman-Smith
Why does Rebecca Walker stereotype Jewish women? Our reviewer has some surprising criticism of Alice Walker’s daughter’s much-touted autobiography, Black, White and Jewish.
“I am their Text”
by Sophie Danis Oberfield
A Yale senior on the tightrope, teaching teen girls to love Jewish texts and at the same time challenge how Judaism views women. Plus: Tamara Cohen on pre-bat mitzvah daughters and Rachel Kranson on accepting versus resisting Jewish tradition.
Taking Back Our Rites
by Yiskah Rosenfield
A young feminist reclaims women’s traditional rituals.
Ruth
poetry by Jennifer Thomas
Fat Talk
by Mimi Nichter
Lessons for mothers and others from Nicther’s new book about teens and dieting. And...22 years after Susie Orbach’s Fat is a Feminist Issue became an international best seller, Barbara Gingold talks to Orbach in Jerusalem about Jewish women and body image.
- Fat is Still a Feminist Issue: Susie Orbach in Israel by Barbara Gingold
Memorial Day in Tel Aviv
by Talia Carner
Susan Shapiro on “Neurotica,” “Run, Catch, Kiss,” “Slut.' Growing up Female With a Bad Reputation,” ”The Oy Of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica,” “Bittersweet Journey: A Moderately Erotic Novel of Love,” and “Longing and Chocolate”
Pamela Brant on “The Reason For Wings,” and “Glass Hearts”
Robetra Bernstein on “Swimming Toward the Ocean”
Sarah Van Absdaleon on “Love and Modern Medicine,” “Lunar Eclipse,” and “House Fires”
Alice Sparberg Alexiou on “The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory”
Helen Schary Motro on “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation”
Caraid O'Brein on “God, Man and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation”
Mindy Aloff on “Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y”
Yona Zeldis McDonough on “The Life and Photograph of Doris Uhmann“
The Marriage Sabbatical: The Journey that Brings You Home