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In this issue: How the right-to-life movement threatens Jewish women’s rights. Serving coffee, not their country–what women really do in the Israeli army now. Copenhagen: the U.N. conference on women and its horrifying anti-Semitism. Stories of independent, working women in the early 1900s. A Voice from the Sweatshop: an excerpt from the diary of activist Rose Pastor Stokes, girl laborer.
The Jewish Stake in Abortion Rights
by Annette Daum
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Poems About Women’s Bodies
by Janet Ruth Heller and Doris Wight
- Nidah (The Menstruant) poetry by Janet Ruth Heller
- No More Rachels poetry by Janet Ruth Heller
- The Daughter that Fearing Fathers poetry by Doris Wight
Working Daughters
by Sydney Stahl Weinberg
Jewish immigrant women and their parents viewed their jobs as a rite-of-passage into adulthood, and so did their parents.
Voice from the Sweatshop
by Rose Pastor Stokes
From the unpublished autobiography of the early 20th century radical.
Women in the Israeli Army
by Susan Weidnian Schneider
Shuli Eshel’s documentary "TO BE A WOMAN SOLDIER" shows what Israeli women really do in the army: serve coffee, not their country. An interview by Susan Weidman Schneider.
Copenhagen: One Year Later
by "Regina Schreiber"
Jewish women who attended last year’s United Nations Mid-Decade Conference on Women finally begin to deal with their traumatizing anti-Semitic experience—-and its significance for feminism.
Bima
by Peggy Tishman
Introducing a new column – a platform for opinion by Jewish women on issues of the day.
On “The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature”
On “Honey in the Lion”
On “In Light of Genesis”
On “Out of the Desert”
On “The Woman Who Lost her Names: Selected Writings by American Jewish Women”
Susan Weidman Schneider on “The Third Jewish Catalogue: Creating Community”
On “Preparing for Sabbath”
Liz Leshin on “Coming Together (1977) and Love Scene (1980)”
On “Additional Poetry in Brief the New Woman's Broken Heart”
On “Selected Poems”
On “Arrived Safely”
L.L. on “From the Pyramids to Mount Carmel”