by Naomi Danis
Why does Frances, the female badger whose bedtime has come and gone (Russell Hoban’s Bedtime for Frances), keep trying to get her parents’ attention, while the male hero of Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen embarks on a fantasy escape when he is banished to bed? These and other questions are explored in the endearing Inside Picture Books, by Ellen Handler Spitz (Yale University Press, $25). Spitz, a psychoanalyst—who incidentally writes with a Jewish sensibility—interprets the art, the words and the meanings of the culture adults transmit to children in the act of reading them picture books.
by Susan Weidman Schneider
What the Jewish community often is when it comes to teenage girls
by Susannah Jaffe
by Naomi Goodman
by Sarah Blustain
by Susannah Jaffe
by Naomi Goodman
by Karen L. Smith
A psychotherapist offers a fascinating new take on the challenges to Jewish girls' bodies.
by Sarah Blustain
by Naomi Goodman
Lilith college interns Naomi Goodman and Susannah Jaffe confess to continuing their relationships with their dark-haired American Girl dolls, and tell why it was hard to love them unconditionally.
by Susannah Jaffe
by Mark Oppenheimer
by Carol Matas
by Naomi Goodman
by Susannah Jaffe
by Susannah Jaffe
by Talya Lieberman
by Naomi Danis
by Talia Milgrom-Elcott