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TRAVEL THIS SUMMER Bat Kol, a feminist interdenominational beit midrash in Jerusalem, will open its first summer session of study June 24 to August 10, with up to 30 students of varied Jewish... Read more »
Happening
Spring 1997
Lilith provides a walking tour to the doors of 16 important Jewish women in Jerusalem. A Muslim woman re-imagines Hagar’s life. How Sophie Tucker’s robust sexuality liberated audience’s imaginations.
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So Big and Ugly
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Critics called the vaudevillian “big, gawky, entirely lacking in ‘allure,’” but Tucker’s robust sexuality—-her “red-hot mama” persona—-liberated audiences’ imaginations.
My Muslim Ancestor Hagar
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Jewish women aren’t the only ones writing feminist midrash. Here, a Muslim woman beautifully re-imagines Hagar’s life (and Sarah’s). Plus . . . the Qur’anic etiology of female genital mutilation and the author’s response: revulsion.
The Woman with Israel in her Head
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“She is in bed with the juice from a cyprus tree . . . She is in bed with a country,” writes Blatt in her love poem to Israel.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
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Here we beat a path to the doors of 16 important Jewish women. There are plenty of pilgrimages to the Holy Land, but none that focus on females—-until now! And, in celebration, Rabbi Susan Schnur sacralizes our tour with an update of “Woman of Valor.”
Separated at Birth
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Fall 1985 Inside the same steel pyramid, at five of nine, you and I check ourselves in spotless mirrored walls, train our mothers’ cool eyes on our own reflections. The... Read more »
Magid: The Telling
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“Ich Bin a Yid.” What Grandpa told Pharaoh in 1945, and how a tape recorder transformed his story into sacred text last Passover. You can do it too.
Sex-Segregated Schools
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Paradoxically, just as the most progressive Jewish schools are more committed than ever to coeducation, there’s a push (based on the work of Carol Gilligan and others) to create all-girls public schools. What’s the risk?
Letters
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POWERFUL NAMES I was pleased and honored to have my piece, “The Pronunciation of My Name,” included in your article on Jewish women and their names (“Each of Us has... Read more »
