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Summer 2002
In this issue: Hyphenates attract! Does that mean 4 last names per couple? Jewish female identity in the Diaspora: Greece, Baghdadi Jews in India, Bombay’s Bene Israel women, Latin American Jewish women, Mexican brides-to-be and immigrants to America from the former Soviet Union. The Halakhic skinny on piercing and tattoos; why a belly-button ring at 40? Class and privilege in the Jewish world.
Jewish Women Modified: The Halachic Skinny on Piercing and Tattoos
by Charlotte Honigman-Smith
What Jewish law says about body art.
Homeland / Diaspora
- Ellinides Evraies by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
- Class and Caste: Jewish Women of India by Sarah Blustain
- Persecution & Belonging Memory & Identity by Paulette Kershenovich
- 2 Girls, 2 Opposing Jewish Culture in Mexico by Rachel Kranson
- Beyond Borscht and Babushkas by Rachel Kranson
The Wedding Photographer’s Assistant
fiction by Ilana Stanger
Wedding pictures are always the same…aren’t they?
From Privilege to Poverty… What I Learned in the Move
by Erica Katske
Is the Hope for Peace a Delusion?
by Laura Blumenfeld
In Jerusalem, a crackerjack journalist attempts to get one man—the Palestinian who tried to murder her father—to say he is sorry.
Tashlich
poetry by Yiskah (Jessica) Rosenfeld
Hineni
poetry by Bonnie Lyons
Hyphenates Attract
by Zachary Pelta-Heller
Growing up with a hyphenated last name, his parents’ feminist principles are now his own. The dilemma is obvious: his girlfriend is also a hyphenate. A true story.
“I do”… “I don’t”
There’s no prophet in her own land . . .
Safeguarding Women’ s Rights
A Break With Spring Break
Jewish Grandes Dames:
Mikvahs Are Hot
“The Essence Of Abuse Is Secrecy”
Mazal Tov To
A Beit Din Of Peers
Priceless Shopping
What Jewish Teen Girls Are Doing Now
Jewish Girls, The Musical
Judios Latinos: Young Latin American Jews in the US
In the Arts
Outspoken Jewish Students
A Safe House in Kenya
Sophie Danis Oberfield on “To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength and Faith in Difficult Times”
Rebecca Metzger on "Kissing Jessica Stein"
Helen Schary Motro on "Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Write"
On "Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, & Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration"
Rachel Kranson on “Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant”