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Winter 2001-2002
In this issue: War and gender: What Afghan women’s suffering says to us. Veiling, and shame. What a “foreigner” in Greece heard on 9/11, what she said, and what she wishes she’d told her hosts. “Red” Emma Goldman still draws us 60 years later. Holocaust survivors’ daughters: helping parents forget, promising them to remember. Eight lessons from Hanukkah.
War, Through a Gender Lens
- What Does Afghani Women's Suffering Say to Us?
- Don't Censor Yourself! by Meredith Tax
- Burqa Dream by Sarah Blustain
- XENI (Foreigner) by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
- Undo it, take it Back by Nessa Rapoport
Secrets in the Matzah box
by Paula Wolfson
The FBI tormented her union activist parents, this Red-Diaper Daughter remembers. The family fears lived on, even after the activist days were over.
Once Upon a Time, My Mother’s Life
by Anna Kolodner
Daughters of Holocaust survivors have a special, paradoxical burden: helping their parents to forget, and promising them to remember.
Conjuring Emma Goldman
by Rachel Kranson
She’s ubiquitous, this anarchist hero—on coffee mugs, T-shirts and post cards. How come "Red" Emma still speaks to us, 60 years after her death?
Invention of a Feminist Sound Bite
by Alix Kates Shulman
In which our informant confesses her involvement in the invention of one of Emma Goldman’s most famous misquotations.
Peels
fiction by Shani R. Sohn
Fresh fruit, kibbutz sex, and a young woman who gets to the core of some unexpected stereotypes.
8 Lessons for Hanukkah, Useful All Year
by Anna Schnur-Fishman
A ninth-grader derives tzedakah lessons as she sorts through her family’s philanthropy.
Feminist Chanteuse
Orthodoxy and Women: Not Egalitarian But a Step in the Right Direction
The Rabbi Defends the Pediatrician
Debby Hirshman: The Woman Behind America’s Biggest JCC
Trembling Before G-d
Lilith As Textbook
“Knee-Jerk Feminist”
Women and Jewish Meditation
An Israeli Woman will not Shut Up
Old Girls Network
To Serve or not to Serve
And Speaking of Lists – Is Three a Trend?
Who are these Women, Anyway?
Arielle Derby on “Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation”
Reena Sigman Friedman on "Lower East Side Memories" and "The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn"
Rebecca Gutterman on “Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism”
Helen Schary Motro on “Martyr's Crossing ”
Danya Ruttenberg on “Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook”
Terren Ilana Wein on “Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico” and "Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers her Navajo Roots"
Susan Sapiro on "Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation"
Rachel Kranson on “Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National”
Rachel Kranson on “The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce”
Rachel Kranson on “Woman and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives”
Rachel Kranson on “Read Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Women's Handbook of Rituals”
Rachel Kranson on “Chicken soup for the Jewish soul”
Sarah Van Arsdale on “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children”
Danya Hercbergs on “God-Optional Judaism: Alternatives for Cultural Jews Who Love Their History, Heritage and Community”
Dana Hercberg on “The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America”