by Jordana Horn

Mommy and Me

A very different kind of motherhood novel

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Meg Wolitzer’s The Ten Year Nap (Riverhead Books, $24.95), though presented as a novel, is more of an ensemble piece, where the voice of each of her female characters works best in juxtaposition with the others. It’s less plot than plotting: these are the stories of women who’ve each chosen, one way or another, to make their families their careers.

Fall 2008

For Lilith’s 100th issue, 100 of the best Jewish feminist ideas. Women employed in Jewish nonprofits tell what they love, and why they leave. Navigating through conversion.

Epilogue

by Anne Roiphe

An Unquiet Revolution at the Water Cooler

by Susan Weidman Schneider

100 Best Jewish Feminist Ideas

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

Mommy and Me

A very different kind of motherhood novel

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