Fall 1990

Happening

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A LITTLE LIGHT READING Without a Single Answer: POEMS ON CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL, a new collection, includes poems by Marcia Falk, Irene Klepficz, Alicia Ostriker, Dahlia Raviko-vitch and others. $11.95 plus... Read more »

Our Lives, Circa 1919

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What we can learn about life and loves of the emerging woman, circa 1919.

A Precious Moment in Chile

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Jewish college women in Chile

“Mothers”

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Mothers by Gloria Goldreich Boston: Little, Brown 439pp., $18.95 In this fictionalized version of the Mary Beth Whitehead story, Nina and David Roth visit the Museum of the Holocaust in... Read more »

“The Classic Tales, 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore”

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The Classic Tales, 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore by Ellen Frankel Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1989 659 pp., $60 In her selection and retelling of 300 “classic” tales, Ellen... Read more »

“Daddy’s Home! Reflections of a Family Man”

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Daddy’s Home! Reflections of a Family Man by Steven Schnur New York: Crown Publishers, 1990 152 pp., $12.95 In Daddy’s Home! Steven Schnur’s subjects range from the intrigues of first... Read more »

“Women’s Rights Pioneer”

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Ernestine L. Rose, Women’s Rights Pioneer, 2nd edition by Yuri Suhl New York: Biblio Press, 1990 340pp., $15.95 hardcover, $11.50 paperback Ernestine L. Rose seems an unlikely person to find... Read more »

Standing Again at Sinai

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Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective by Judith Plaskow San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990 282 pp., $21.95 hardcover, $12.95 paperback For the past twenty years, in... Read more »

America and I

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America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers edited and with an introduction by Joyce Antler Boston: Beacon Press, 1990 351 pp., $19.95 As the first historically based... Read more »

Tears

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A CHICKEN SIMMERS IN JULIA’S SOUP POT, THE FIRST KOSHER CHICKEN SHE HAS . EVER COOKED, THOUGH SHE IS NOT NEW TO COOKING. JULIA, HER EYES ON THE CLOCK, HER MIND... Read more »

Requiem for Oma Berta

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It’s not the absence of your lavender scent or lack of your voice calling me in German or your old woman’s wrinkles not therefor my finger’s trace, it’s not that... Read more »

In A Cafe

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See the bagels fly! Hear the croissants speak! Step right up for words and action from Felder, a juggler who keeps her identity components in the air from coast to coast.

Reworking The Rabbi’s Role

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Moving beyond the traditional hierarchical relationships, women rabbis today differ from their male counterparts. Here we find out how their congregations gain, and what the costs are for the women themselves.

Yael Dayan

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Pragmatic Israeli politico Dayan talks about her dreams for peace, her famous father and her own political aspirations. Plus--our Tel Aviv correspondent Barbara Harshav and lawyer Miriam Benson update us on how Israeli women’s issues are faring right now.

Night of the Staircase

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"Night of the staircase," an Egyptian memoir by Ada Aharoni and Thea Wolf

Jewish Singles Introductions Go Global

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Jewish mothers, grandmothers and doting aunts who have been despairing that the eligible bachelors in their family would ever meet “Ms. Right” can now take heart. Susie Carter, editor and... Read more »

What Soviet Anti-Semitism Looks Like Now

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The poster shows a caricatured Israeli soldier marching over the bodies of dead and mutilated Lebanese. In one hand, the soldier carries a bloody axe; in the other, he waves... Read more »

Spunky Woman

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The LILITH Mother’s Day “spunky women” column has been dedicated by Vivian Leith of Minneapolis in memory of her mother, Lillian Arkin Schwartz of Winnipeg, Manitoba. “My mother had indomitable... Read more »

Rediscovering and Creating a Women’s Literature

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“The story of Bruria [second century women renown for her scholarship] should be read by women as the haggada is read during Passover!’ said the Israeli novelist Ruth Almog in... Read more »

Women Cantors Hold Their Own Convention

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“I remember coming home after my first workshop;’ recalls Elie Schaeffer of the Women Cantor’s Network (WCN) convention. “I was so high, I had a feeling that all of my... Read more »

The Cantors Assembly Convention: A Spy Story

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I attended my first Cantors Assembly convention in the Cat-skills this May with some trepidation. 1 knew that the group would be primarily composed of men; I also knew that... Read more »

Making Jews Visible to Academic Feminists

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Are Jewish women — or are Jewish women not — women of color? Should anti-Semitism be categorized as racism? What are the constraints a family-oriented Jewish tradition places on both... Read more »

Raising Awareness of AIDS in Israel

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Sections of the International AIDS memorial quilt containing panels created by Israeli and diaspora Jews and by Arabs will be displayed in Israel this winter. The entire quilt, an enormous... Read more »

For Families Touched by AIDS

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“I am not religious but…!’ So begins a typical call to Congregation Beth Simchat Torah’s AIDS counselling hotline. Saul Zalkin, who answers calls from his home, responds with a welcome.... Read more »

Teenagers Confront Our Past in Poland

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AUSCHWITZ, Poland, 1943: A young Jewish woman named Sophia, in her twenties, trudged down a dirt road. A wife and mother, she had no idea where her husband and child... Read more »

Letters

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ABORTION, NOT THE JEWISH WAY? I would like to comment on your article “The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News for Jews” [Summer 1990). It is bad news for Jews such as yourself... Read more »

From the Editor

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In the Jewish calendar, autumn is the official time of self-evaluation. For me, the stock-taking increasingly revolves around the question of transitions, personal and political: One child leaving for a... Read more »

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