fiction by Naama Goldstein

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Nine candle holders made of soda-bottle caps glued on a piece of plywood. Paint and glitter and industrial scraps, bolts, nuts, pebbles, a whole mess of extra trimmings if you wanted. I did not. I only swamped the thing with glue, hoping it wouldn’t dry. When school let out the substitute sneaked up on me just past the gate, panting. “Oy va’avoy! Look what we almost forgot!” The glue had set, unfortunately. She made me take my Menorah.

Winter 2011-2012

Passover celebrations from five unusual perspectives, including a new ritual for an adopted daughter. Naming ourselves, including appreciating our hyphens. The challenges in getting an abortion in Israel today.

My Hyphen

by Anna Schnur-Fishman

Passover, Kaleidoscopically

by Rabbi Susan Schnur

Abortion in Israel

by Elana Maryles Sztokman and L. Ariella Zeller

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

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