Sybil’s Last Tape

by Bonnie J. Morris

Aunt Sybil spills the beans about life for a Jewish girl in the Twenties, and how she toughened up her immigrant mother to improve her parents’ marriage.

Childless In Israel

by Barbara Gingold

Up close and personal in the Promised Land: women without children in this intensely pro-natalist society.

Sound Effects

fiction by Michele Ruby

A Philanthropist Gives Feminist Art What It Deserves

by Susan Weidman Schneider

“Feminist art is all about the politics.” Elizabeth Sackler enshrines Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” — and more — at the Brooklyn Museum center that bears her name. And now Judy Chicago explores her own Jewish identity. Photos by Joan Roth.

• Judy Chicago’s Jewish Identity by Susan Weidman Schneider

Each Other’s

poetry by Elizabeth Swados

The REAL History of the Jewish Mother

Susan Schnur talks to Joyce Antler

Two seriously funny Jewish mothers go behind the jokes that have reined us in to reveal the secret messages of power beamed at us from stage, screen and stand-up mic. Susan Schnur interviews historian Joyce Antler about her new book, You Never Call! You Never Write!

Navigating Sexuality

• The Rehearsal Man by Jill Dearman
• What’s Next, After Gay Rabbis? by Melanie Weiss with Rabbi Susan Schnur
• Forbidden and Permitted Relations by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon
• Blessings for Gender Transitions by Rabbi Elliot Kukla