In this issue: Jewish women’s salons: Making a revolution, right in your living room. How one courageous bubbe defied the bosses and saved striking Kentucky coal mines. Raising the vulva consciousness and why even fearless Jewish women have trouble saying it. A growing cadre of Jewish mothers with autistic kids bond in the Midwest.
Susan Weidman Schneider
How to make a revolution, right in your own living room.
by Barbara M. Stock
After her divorce, she still wants a man to lead the seder. Find out what changed her mind. We follow Stock through heartbreak, outrage and, finally, to gleeful power when she takes the reins herself. Plus...Rabbi Susan Schnur's clues for making your seders even more satisfying next year.
poetry by Sarah Antine
by Maya Bernstein
How one courageous woman saved the strikers and defied the bosses, 75 years ago.
by Michelle Ephraim
For a child of Holocaust survivors, Shakespeare is a refuge
fiction by Amy Gottlieb
by Barbara Gingold
Even in her 90s, her clear eye made Sonnenfeld the photographer of record for the humble poignancies of Jewish life around the world.
by Harriet Lerner
Even fearless Jewish women have trouble saying it! Surprising findings from the bestselling psychologist.
by Cynthia R. Harp
In a city in the Midwest, a growing cadre of Jewish moms bond. They have special-needs kids and a special Jewish community. Illustrations by Israeli artists--children and adults--with autism.
by Elizabeth S. Bennett
Real estate, so cruel to so many, hands Bennett a new relationship when her engagement breaks off.
Jewish Fashion Conspiracy
Highest-Ranking Woman Says Goodbye
Serving up Judaism as Soul Food
Our Mother Mary, Found
Gay Rights are a Natural Extension of Jewish Feminism
Palestinian Women Make Gains
Remembering Susan Sontag
“I Had an Abortion”
Natalie Portman Reconnects with her Israeli Roots
New Adoption Rights in Israel
IBD: A Jewish Disease
Letter from Kigali
Faye Moskowitz on “The Stories of Fanny Hurst”
Susie Morgenstern on “Irene Nemirovsky,”
Miriam Sivan on “The Place Will Comfort You ”
C. Devorah Hammer on “The Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problem”
Miriam Stone on “So Far, So Good,” “Exchange for a Homeland,” ”Fall,” and “The Last Clear Narrative”
Eleanor J. Bader on “Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism”
Yael Flusberg on “Naked in the Promised Land,” ”Scraping By in the Big Eighties,” and ”Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless”
Toby Axelrod on “Fraulein Rabbiner Jonas: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi”
Swimming with—and against—the Tide
C. Devorah Hammer on “Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism”