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Advance directive: Describes two kinds of legal documents, living wills and medical powers of attorney. These are papers which allow a person to give instructions about future medical care in case he or she becomes unable to participate in medical decisions because of serious illness or incapacity. Each state regulates the use of advance directives differently.

“Let My Husband Die”

The articles in this special section:

A Prayer of Trust

adapted from Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin

The Promise

poetry by Sharon Olds

What to Do

resources compiled by Caryn Tamber

Where to Turn

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What It Means

resources compiled by Caryn Tamber

Fall 2000

Laugh out loud at “A Husband of Valor.” Israeli law protects women from sex trafficking. The power of Lillian Hellman’s “Julia.” How to diversify a synagogue. The natural history of divorce.

Ties That Bind

by Michelle Friedman

A Husband of Valor

poetry by Susan Ellman

It Helps to Be a Feminist

by Sarah Blustain

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.

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