by Karen Mandell

Rose Has a New Walker

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A poem with a pitch-perfect ear for the tones and rhythms of dialogue, and a pitch-perfect heart for the art of preserving a feisty elder’s dignity—with a deft surprise ending. Three generations of caring, tactful family love and humor are captured here, and “the gravity of home” is the poem’s perfect close. — Alicia Ostriker

Charlotte A. Newberger Poetry Prize

The articles in this special section:

Rose Has a New Walker

by Karen Mandell

And These Are Different Days

by Julie Sugar

Away from Babi Yar

by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Summer 2013

New models for how to manage the expectations (and expenses) confronting Jewish mothers in the “lean in” era. The kinesthetics of feminist prayer. And three new short stories: the haiku as revenge, an angel on the balcony, and how to hate your hair.

Not Your Zayde’s Shokl

by Stacey Zisook Robinson

Motherhood in the “Lean In” Era

by Gabrielle Birkner

Of an Honorable Antiquity

by Susan Schnur

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.

Rose Has a New Walker

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