Our Bodies Ourselves

by Shala Erlich

Erlich, born in the same year as Our Bodies Ourselves, credits this landmark book with introducing her to sex, strong bodies and medical school. But the world-shaking classic women's health bible at 35 appears in a new edition with some unsettling changes.

Readers Respond

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• Making Women Rabbis by Bob Lamm
• That JAP... by Nita Polay Levin
• "The damage done has never left me." by Lois Martin

That Night in the Museum

by Dara Horn

You'd think that you could read the thoughts of a twentysomething guy who shows up at a Jewish Museum's singles night. But you'd be very surprised at the truth.

Joan Snyder

Catch up with the artist who has led the vanguard since feminist art got its label 30 years ago.

Judith the Obscure

by Rivy Poupko Kletenik

(Preparing Ourselves to Meet Another Matriarch)

“…And We Eat Like on Yom Kippur”

by Helene Sinnreich

In the Lodz ghetto under the Nazis, starvation was public policy. Historian Sinnreich finds out what women did--from refurbishing potato peels to harvesting garbage--in the heroic struggle against the savage gnaw of hunger.

Disputed Ruins (Ours)

poetry by Leah Kaplan

Shema

poetry by Helena Lipstadt

How Do We Become Grown-Up Jewish Women?

by Naomi Danis

Naomi Danis asks 15 writers to name that indelible moment when adulthood struck. Tune in to Anita Diamant, Ruth Andrew Ellenson, Judith Katzir, Nessa Rapoport, Shulamit Reinharz, Isabel Rose, Fiona Rosenbloom, Danya Ruttenberg, Hannah Goodman, Marilyn Sachs, Esme Raji Codell, Sarah Darer Littman, Penina Adelman, Valerie Zenatti and Sonia Levitin. Lilith's 10th annual feminist exploration of books for young readers.

• You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah* by Fiona Rosenbloom
• Yentl's Revenge by Danya Ruttenberg
• The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt by Ruth Andrew Ellenson
• Room in the Heart by Sonia Levitin
• The JGirl's Guide by Shulamit Reinharz
• My Sister's Wedding by Hannah R. Goodman
• Lost in America by Marilyn Sachs
• The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
• The J.A.P. Chronicles by Isabel Rose
• Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Darer Littman
• House on the River: A Summer Journey by Nessa Rapoport
• Closing the Sea by Judith Katzir
• When I Was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatt

Motherhood Galore!

by Lauren Kranson

7 New Books Stake Out the Scene