Fall 2009

Fall 2009
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

Jewish Men Now
Guest Editor Sarah Blustain spotlights men who are incubating some pretty radical thoughts on gender and Judaism: Rabbis Steven Greenberg and Jeremy Kalmanofsky and writers Jay Michaelson and Paul Zakrzewski, Melanie Weiss's short history of the "boy crisis" and Sally Gottesman on how to pull boys back to Judaism.

Celebrations
by Elizabeth Bennett
Look again at how we're marking the passages in our lives, from publishing a new book to hilarious seder homework, from wedding seriousness to birthday frolicking. Not to get all Martha Stewart on you, but this is definitely the moment to do things differently.

The Tighter I Held On, the Better He Wrote
by Bel Kaufman
The author of Up the Down Staircase captures her very special grandfather on the 150th anniversary of his birth; he was that entrancing weaver of Yiddish tales, Sholom Aleichem, whose stories about daughters and parents became "Fiddler on the Roof."

Home
a short story by Zeeva Bukai

Poetry
Tishre by Yiskah Rosenfeld and Whenever I Am Hungry by Judy Neri

Voices
Dueling views of therapy * Housewives and heroines from Israel * At 95, grateful for contraception * A "shocking" girls' school * Inside the Beltway with Ann F. Lewis and Belle Moskowitz * And more...

Happening
compiled by Naomi Danis
Going. Doing. Indispensable resources.

Reviews

Grasping for the Remote
by Deborah Adelman
In 1968, when none of the news was good, her grandmother tried to protect her.

From the Editor
Susan Weidman Schneider on how women model Judaism for boys and men.

Cover: Aliza Dzik.