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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Journey Toward Freedom: A Haggada for Women Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence is designed to transform the seder into a service that addresses the oppression—and liberation—of women journeying from abuse to safety. Available from The Faith Trust Institute: Working Together to End Sexual &Domestic Violence (formerly the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence) (877)860-2255.
www.faithtrustinstitute.org

Winter 2003-2004

“This isn’t sex!” say bat mitzvah girls about their parties. A Syrian Jewish family bonds over cooking. Muslim lesbian feminist Irshad Manji, on Islamic terror against women. Patients’ stories.

Allspice in the Family

by Dina Cheney

They Say “It’s Not Sex”

by Susan Weidman Schneider

Why Write a Patient’s Life as a Short Story?

by Julie Heifetz

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Happening

Where to go for what if you're Jewish and female

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