Spring 2003

Sex in an Orthodox marriage. Ceremonies for separating when a relationship comes apart. How summer camp transforms girls.  Frontier bris. A new traveling exhibition spotlights Lilith’s first 25 years.

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Ode to the Passover Egg

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A brand new reading for Passover, to help us remember what’s inside us: generations within generations.

Readers Respond

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Jewish Girls and African-American Nannies I cannot tell you how the article on Jewish girls and African-American Nannies [Winter 2002-2003] affected me. All my feelings about “my Lucy” were expressed.... Read more »

Roadkill

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First it was hit then thrown forward. Up and quickly down under the car in front before it rolled under mine. I could feel the body hit the chassis. I... Read more »

Rhythms of the Blood

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"These things that I tell you are secret," says a young woman who has learned, slowly, to appreciate being the engine of her sex life.

Catching on About

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Power and Politics

Reclaiming Our Reputation

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Too Smart, Too Strong, Too Sexy, Too Loud

Rethinking Our Relationships

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Empathy, Sexuality, Community

Uncovering the Darker Stories

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Taking Risks to Report the Truth

Our Bodies/Ourselves

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Pride, Pain, Prejudice

Amplifying Unheard Voices

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When Others Turn a Deaf Ear

Emerging on the Other Side of a Marriage

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Karen Propp discusses two books on divorcing well.

The New, Improved Jewish Divorce

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A rabbi writes her own get, brings along a minyan of women, and creates a feminist ritual for a male-dominated moment.

Separating

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A Rosh Hodesh group chooses the theme and symbols of Havdalah, the ceremonial farewell to the Sabbath, to ferry a friend out of her marriage.

Frontier Bris

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A twentysomething doc with a gleam in her eye takes herself into the O.R. Here's what she thought when science met culture on the circumcision table.

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