Winter 2008-2009

Vol. 33.4 , Winter 2008-2009

Six Words to Change the World
by Ariadne Lieber and Rabbi Susan Schnur
The Sh'ma, Judaism's most famous prayer, radically rewritten for women.

What Beauty Does
by Alix Kates Shulman
When her husband suffers a debilitating brain injury, Shulman's world, and her love, have to bend.

Daughters on Mothers
The Story That Never Goes Away
Fated to Be Ahead of Her Time
by Amy Katz

Only One of Us Can Wear This Dress, Ma
by Laurie Deutsch Mozian

"If Hitler Didn't Kill Me, You Will"
by Evie Litwok

Submergence
by Esther Moritz

Left Behind
by Eva White

"Mother, I'll Always Take Care of You"
by Rebecca Himber Berg


Fanny in Ottoman Palestine
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
In 1914, she ran away from her Jewish home in Palestine with the Turkish governor, a Muslim. Turns out this forgotten foremother, a distant cousin, now fits beautifully into Alexiou's own complex family mosaic.

From the Editor
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Voices: Jewish Women Speak Out
Ortho-feminists on Israeli t.v.
Italy's only female rabbi
The transgender teacher at Yeshiva University
Art from the womb
Who's leading Conservative rabbis?
Obama's Jewish female law professor

Fiction
by Ilana Stanger-Ross
"Sima's Undergarments for Women"

Reviews
Idra Novey on Grace Paley's final poems. Judith Ruskay Rabinor on eating disorders. Young adult fiction explored by Naomi Danis. Judy Gerstel on Sidura Ludwig's Winnipeg novel. And more...

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

Poetry
by Bonnie J. Morris and Lynn Levin