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Spring 2004
In this issue: Two daughter’s-eye views of divorce: one twentysomething is blissfully blind to the conflicts that fractured her family, the other invents a “kashrut of families” to keep her fractious parents apart. Why is the zaftig, sexy Betty Boop Jewish? The poet Zelda’s sensual Hebrew verses. Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s unusual wedding anniversary celebration. Single-sex prayer services in the name of pluralism?
Readers Respond
You have a lot to say about teen girls and oral sex.
The Woman Who Shaped the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
by Hadassah Rosensaft
Her posthumous autobiography reveals why a woman’s suffering and vision changed the way the U.S. Holocaust Museum teaches about the Shoah.
After the Seders, Snow
poetry by Tzivia Gover
Divorce
Two Jewish women-both in their twenties--look back.
- A Kashrut of Families by Shala Erlich
- A "Happy" Divorce by Ilana Kramer
Translating Zelda
by Marcia Falk
A gifted poet and liturgist in her own right, Falk turns her high beam on Zelda’s sensual Hebrew verses.
Separate and Equal?
by Elizabeth A. Richman
Richman wants all her friends to be comfortable. But should feminists sanction prayer services that exclude one sex or another in the name of pluralism?
Betty Boop
by Amelia S. Holberg
Who Knew???
The Guys in the Rabbi’s Class
fiction by Susan Dworkin
One Woman’s Tenement Is Another’s Castle
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Where the whole family gathers to mark a 35th wedding anniversary.
Fixer – Uppers
Fall from a High Place: The Firing of Debby Hirshman
Jewish Women Make News
Eek! To “Zeek”
We are Sad to Report the Deaths of These Outstanding Women
Struggle Over Reproductive Rights Heats Up
Preventing Sexual Abuse by Clergy
On Screen—Shaking Up those Tired Old Gender Assumptions
Headscarves and Feminists
Political Wives—they Just can’t Win
Who’s Minding The Baby?
Family Violence? Not in My Community!
Remembering Georgette Klinger
Sophie Danis Oberfield on “How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences”
Hannah Pressman on “Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman: The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach
Yona Zeldis McDonough on “Family History“
Yona Zeldis McDonough on ”The Joy of Funerals: A Novel in Stories”
Gael Hammer on “In Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering”
Gloria Becker Marchick on Underqround in Morocco
Ilana Kramer on “In Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives.”