Readers Respond

A Good Egg: A Donor’s Story

by "Rebecca Greenberg" as told to Esther D. Kustanowitz

She just gave birth to her own child. Now a Jewish woman who years ago donated her eggs to an infertile couple looks back on her extraordinary choice.

Flora

fiction by Ann Shaftel

A short story about the inquisition and its aftermath

Teenage Girls Who Like Their Bodies? Get Out!!

by Anna Schnur-Fishman

What this Jewish summer camp offers--common showers--brings unintended lessons, including the body-equalizing revelations most women experience only in a Loehmann's dressing room. And Joan Jacobs Brumberg talks to Ilana Kramer about female appearance and anxiety.

Writing from the Outside

by Naomi Danis

Our annual spotlight on books for young readers asks 18 writers to confess. The refugee, the girl too smart, the gay boy who played with dolls, the creative outcast--they're all her, given voice by Lore Segal, Michelle Edwards, Barbara Feinberg, Deborah Heiligman, Francine Klagsbrun, Sylvie Weil, Miriam Stone, Etgar Keret, Ellen Kushner, James Howe, Susan Goldman Rubin, Emily Nussbaum, Pnina Moed Kass, Carol Snyder, Susie Morgenstern, Galila Ron-Feder-Amit, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger and Kathy Walden Kaplan.

• Different from Other Boys by James Howe
• An Adult Can Be Your Best Friend by Kathy Walden Kaplan
• In Favor of Outsiderhood by Rebecca Alban Hoffberger
• An Israeli Foster Mother by Galila Ron-Feder-Amit
• My Country is Judaism by Susie Morgenstern
• Chicken? by Carol Snyder
• What Would Be Sufficient? by Pnina Moed Kass
• At Last! I Didn't Belong! by Emily Nussbaum
• Uptown Jews, Downtown Jews by Susan Goldman Rubin
• An Indigestible Childhood by Lore Segal
• Growing Up Weird by Ellen Kushner
• Writing to Become Whole by Miriam Stone
• Inventing Rashi's Granddaughter by Sylvie Weil
• The Shame of Being Smart by Francine Klagsbrun
• Politics Make Her a Stranger by Deborah Heiligman
• The Hobo Book Exchange by Barbara Feinberg
• A Jew Amid the Alien Corn by Michelle Edwards

If My Grandmother Could Have Written a Postcard to the Sister Left Behind

poetry by Lyn Lifshin

Fresh Views of Israel

• "Following a Story, Like in a Dream" interview with Savyon Liebrecht by Karen Propp
• A Cinderella-Like Boy in a New Israeli Film by Talya Lieberman
• Why Laws Hardly Improve Women's Status in Israel by Susan Sapiro