by Susan Shapiro

Jewish Woman Gamble Too

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Elaine Goldman (a pseudonym) is a 31-year-old college-educated Jewish woman who comes from a wealthy, high-profile family in Westchester County, just north of New York City. Within the last three years, she lost $73,000, passed bad checks, borrowed money illegally from loan sharks, alienated her family became a pathological liar and almost destroyed her entire world.

Fall 1988/5749

Nine political issues for the 1990s. A ceremony for a first period. Sacred moments from Fran Liebowitz, Debbie Friedman and more. “A Letter to Harvey Milk:” Leslea Newman’s short story.

Sharing Sacred Moments

Becoming A Crone: Ceremony At 60

by Marcia Cohn Spiegel and friends

Turning 12: A Menarche Ceremony

by Judith Chalmer and Fran Solin

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.

Spring 2019

“Unfaithful,” the theme of 3 prize-winning short stories • Israel’s little-known School for Peace and the woman who created it • The new questions those male policy-makers didn’t know to ask

Jewish Woman Gamble Too

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