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Winter 2004-2005
In this issue: Girls and women who flee the Hasidic world: why is this so hard? Jewish women’s breast cancer fears. Meet Eve Ensler and a crop of new activists. A fabric artist who makes memory quilts from her parent’s clothes. Israel: A “Birthright” Diary. Giving up a pulpit for politics—on Chicago’s mean streets.
Leaving the Hasidic World
- Malkie by Malka Schwartz
- "Yearning to Breathe Free" by Hella Winston
- Seeking a Way Out by Lynn Davidman
Scrupulosity
by David Holzel
Jennifer Traig wanted to be a good Jewish girl. Her religious convictions were hijacked by her compulsions.
Genetics & Breast Cancer
by Shala Erlich
Erlich, a physician, introduces us to "pre-vivors," young women wrestling with a family legacy they never expected.
For This I Went to Rabbinical School
by Jill Jacobs
Foregoing a pulpit for political work on Chicago’s mean streets.
Vertigo
fiction by Karen Paul-Stern
Charlotte Newberger Poetry Contest
- Preparing for Yom Kippur poetry by Mel Patrell Furman
- Landlord to such a Multitude poetry by Sue Swartz
- Things My Mother Gave Me poetry by Jennifer Bloustine
Israel: A Birthright Diary
by Miriam Stone
On returning from Israel, I find myself committed to stand firmly...exactly where I had been before
Another Kind of Israel Diary 1959-2004
by Helen Schary Motro
Joseph’s Niece
by Howard Schwartz
Women on a Glass Cliff
“Bee Season” Flies onto the Big Screen
Giving a Voice—and a Face—to Rio’s Poorest
Sexual Assault in Israel—On the Rise
Perfecting those Private Parts?
Jewish Women on Both Sides of the Prison Walls
Post-Election Cleansing
Is Reform Judaism Becoming Feminized?
The Woman Transforming Old Hatred into New Empathy
Is it Just a T.V. Show?
Deborah Ostrovsky Osmond on ”Survivors: Seven Short Stones”
Idra Novey on “The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp”
Idra Novey on “Fires in the Dark”
Yona Zeldis McDonough on “Dollmakers And Their Stories: Women Who Changed The World of Play”
Rachel Kranson on “The Outside World”
Patty Grossman on “Deborah”
Tradition? Tradition!