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Winter 2007-2008
In this issue: How Jewish women fare in Internet dating. One-night stands in the Talmud, as a traveling rabbi takes a “pilagesh,” a temporary wife, in every town. Lactivism! A nursing mother’s introduction to breastfeeding politics leads her into the real thing. Iceland warms a writer after her chilly divorce. “The Shul Detective,” Liana Finck’s graphic diary.
Who Will Be Mine For Today?
by Ruth Calderon, translated by Ilana Kurshan
A very peculiar practice is mentioned in the Talmud: a traveling rabbi who takes a wife, for one night only, in every town he visits. Now, hear her thoughts on the matter.
Never Again
poetry by Lesléa Newman
After Ten Years, I Tell An American Boy About The Army
poetry by Yosefa Raz
Winner of this year’s fiction contest
An Evening At Rosie’s
fiction by Phyllis Bronstein, Winner of the 2007 Lilith fiction contest
Winner of this year’s fiction contest
Is E-Dating Good For Jewish Women?
by Susan Schnur
Investigating how women fare in the addictive world of Internet matchmaking, our fearless reporter uncovers the mix of pain and pleasure in this undertaking.
- And An Expert Says… as told to Susan Schnur
- A Shrink (Anonymously) Reflects
Finding Myself In Iceland
by Jordana Horn
When Horn needs to escape after an icy divorce, can a vacation in the chill restore her soul to her, the way the morning prayer promises?
How I Became A Lactivist
by Wendy Wisner
A mother’s induction into the utterly traditional maternal activity of breastfeeding. And how it pulled her into politics (of a sort).
Clare Hedwat on ”When We Were Bad”
Ilana Stanger-ross on ” The Last Chicken in America”
Susan Sapiro on ”Women remaking American Judaism"
Joanne Palmer on ”Caspian Rain,” and "The September of Shiraz"
Deborah Ostrovsky on “Rather Laugh than Cry: Stories from a Hassidic Household”
Alice Sparberg Alexiou on "uzanne Braun Levine," and ”Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way"
Idra Novey on ”The Broken String," "Inflorescence," "The steam sequence," and "Love Poems of a Philanderer’s Wife"
Vanessa Ochs on ”Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry"
Jordana Horn on ”Away”
Tammy Hepps on ”The Empress of Weehawken”
Haviva Ner-David on ”Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation”