In this issue: Analyzing our inner JAP: do we reclaim or revile her for her hair, her shoes, her attitude? A visit to the women’s steam bath in Tangiers brings a Moroccan Jew Muslim friends. How Jewish do Jewish women feel in interfaith marriages? The Holocaust’s legacy in the lives of the second generation.
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin on violence in Jewish families
poetry by Jane Ellen Iburl
by Jeri B. Zeder
Plenty has changed since the last century; a new study looks at how Jewish Jewish women feel who choose partners who aren't. Plus...Eve Coulson on two books about interfaith marriage.
poetry by Yakov Azriel
poetry by Davi Walders
by Eva Hoffman
The noted author of Lost in Translation explores the Shoah's legacy in the lives of the second generaiton. She speaks with Carolyn Slutsky on writing about memory and history.
by Yaelle Azagury
Back in Morocco, a first-time visit to the Muslim women's baths delivers Moroccan-born Azagury unexpected sightings of tender friendhsips (and terrors) that cross religious boundaries.
fiction by Marti Zuckrowv
by Alana Newhouse
Alana Newhouse joins those who laugh a little at themselves, claiming fealty to the JAP as an unabashed consumer--her worldliness somehow entangled in her Jewishness.
by Rebecca Goldstein
In which the novelist and philosopher reveals who really makes her feel guilty.
by Elaine Shizgal Cohen
Elaine Cohen and Steven P. Cohen celebrated the committment ceremony of their daughter Tamara. Here's how Elaine toasted the couple.
Teaching Teens to Read – in Jail
Haircuts, a New Bat Mitzvah Ritual
Queerspawn – What’s That??
The First Read-Aloud Book for Alzheimer’s Sufferers
Muslim Women Struggle to Lead Prayers. Does this Sound Familiar?
20 Years of Conservative Women Rabbis (That’s Capital-C Conservative)
Religious Restrictions on your Medical Care
Trying to Close Out Israeli Academics