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Spring/Summer, 1982/5742
In this issue: Questioning roles dictated by custom and not law, Blu Greenberg finds room for feminism in Orthodox Judaism. Aviva Cantor redefines the Passover seder with her egalitarian hagadah, incorporating stories and poetry by and about women. A short story about a mentally disabled girl and the Nazis.
An Egalitarian Hagada
by Aviva Cantor
Over the past decade, women have been holding feminist Seders and have drawn strength and inspiration from joining in such ceremonies that focus on and celebrate our experiences. Now the time has come to share these insights with a wider audience, and to make them an integral part of the Passover ceremony. The non-sexist and egalitarian hagada in this special section incorporates stories and poetry by and about women—-as well as other passages and poems translated from Hebrew and Yiddish—-about the Holocaust and Resistance, Israel, Soviet Jewry, and struggles for justice into the traditional narrative of the Seder.
Gerta
fiction by Maxine Rose Schur
The scene is Berlin under the Nazis. Gerta has two counts against her: she is mentally disabled—and she is Jewish. She is also unprotected...