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Spring 2006
In this issue: Single Jewish women adopted Chinese orphans; how they’ll celebrate bat mitzvah. The trafficking of modern-day sex slaves in the U.S. and Israel; who’s working to free them? Mourning a younger sister. Is a stay-at-home mom wasting her Harvard degree?
The Truth, in 3 Memoirs: Mother, Daughter, Sister
- Momifesto by Karen Prager
- Sorrel Summer by Marlene B Samuels
- First Wednesday by Barbara Gingold
Female Merit Badges
by Mary YaeGer
Charlotte Newberger Poetry Content 2006
- The Poet
- The Prize is Named for
- The Judge
- Abba Kovner Listened poetry by Laurie Suzanne Lessen-Reiche
Flight
fiction by Phyllis Carol Agins
Jewish Moms, Chinese Daughters
by Merri Rosenberg
Single Jewish women adopt the orphans of China's one-child-only policy. Now the first wave of these Chinese daughters perpares for bat mitzvah. Plus…how the offspring of Jewish-Chinese imtermarriages celebrate
Modern-Day Sex Slavery
by llana Kramer
"Right around the corner from me!" The hidden trafficking of girls and women in the U.S. and Israel; who is trying to free these captives?
The World, To Come
Dara Horn interviewed by Merri Rosenberg
Dara Horn talks with Merri Rosenberg about lies, betrayal, and her new novel.
Merri Rosenberg on “The World to Come”
Hannah S. Pressman on “Mandrakes from the Holy Land”
Liz Kiistein on “Memoirs of a Muse”
Liana Kurshan on “Good Place for the Night”
Rebecca Schwartz on “Rashi's Daughters,” and "My Guardian Angel"
Merri Rosenberg on ”The History of Love”
Julia WolfMazow on “Without Shame”
Faye Moskowitz on “Ester and Riizya”
Laura Levitt on ”Why aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism”
Gillian Steinberg on “My Kafka Century”