Bridges
Table of Contents for back issues:
Volumes 1-9
Volume 1
Number 1Spring 1990
Number 2Fall 1990
Volume 2
Number 1Spring 1991
Number 2Fall 1991
Volume 3
Number 1Spring/Summer 1992
Number 2Spring 1993
Volume 4
Number 1Winter/Spring 1994
Number 2Winter 1994/1995
Volume 5
Number 1Sampling Jewish Women's Art
Number 2Jewish Women on Land
Volume 6
Number 1Summer 1996
Number 2Young Jewish Women Ages 13 to 30
Volume 7
Number 1Writing and Art by Sephardic and Mizrahi Women
Number 2Summer 1998
Volume 8
Number 1 & 2Confronting Text and Tradition
Volume 9
Number 1Writing and Art by Jewish Women of Color
Number 2An Issue Devoted to Poetry

CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 1Spring 1990

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Some Pieces of Jewish Left: 1987/6

Muriel Rukeyser
Under Forty/23

Poetry
Emily Warn/30
Fran Adler/31
Willa Schneberg/32
Lee Miriam Whitman/39

Alisa Solomon
Jewish Feminists Speak Out on Israel/41

JEB (Joan E. Biren)
A Decade of Jewish Feminism/57

Faith Rogow
The Rise of Jewish Lesbian Feminism/67

Song
Laura Wetzler/80
Carole Rose Livingston/82
Rita Falbel/84

Rita Falbel and Irena Klepfisz
Renee Epelbaum: Still Struggling in Argentina (an interview)/86

Irena Klepfisz
The Lamp/96

Review
Joan Nestle
Into the Mainstream/98

Notes on Contributors/105

CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 2Fall 1990

Michele Clark
No Shuttle to Central Vermont/15

Poetry
Ellen Stone/22
Judith Arcana/23
Judith Chalmer/24
Stephanie Pressman/34
Ayelet Tabak/58
Rachel Tzvia Back/59, 93
Margo Hittleman/60
tova/69
Anita Barrows/95

Miranda Bergman
Susan Greene
Dina Redman
Marlene Tobias
Photo Essay: Painting for Peace/39

Jyl Lynn Felman
Absence/63

tova
Does It Hurt?/74

Irena Klepfisz
Jewish Feminism 1913: Yente Serdatzky’s “Confession”/77

Yente Serdatzky
Vide/Confession/79

Jennifer Kohn and Karen Brown
Report from Two Campuses/100

Janis Plotkin
Jewish Film Festival in Moscow/109

Review Essay
Adrienne Rich
Words Out of the Whirlwind/111

Reviews
Margaret Randall
Exile in the Promised Land, by Marcia Freedman/121

Lois Levine
Jewish Women’s Call for Peace, edited by Rita Falbel, Irena Klepfisz, and Donna Nevel/125

Lori Ginzberg
Standing Again at Sinai, by Judith Plaskow

Ruth Kraut
We Rejoice in Our Heritage, by Judith Seid/128

Notes on Contributors/132

CONTENTS Volume 2, Number 1Spring 1991

Irene Hasenberg Butter and Pamela Butter-Nassar/16
Generation to Generation: An Interview

Chana Bloch
White Ink of Memory/25

Round Table
Jewish Women Talk about Surviving Incest/26
Jyl Lynn Felman
Voices/35

Aurora Levins Morales
Suzi Wizowaty
Agnes Zellin
Hala Deeb Jabbour
Jewelle Gomez
Loving Across Differences: Jews and Non-Jews/42

Chaia Lehrer
Those Old Working Class Values/51

Poetry
Kadya Molodovsky
Dzshike Street (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)/54
Dzshike Gas (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)/55
Chronicle (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)/56
My Paper Bridge (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)/58
Letters from the Ghetto (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)/60

Abraham Sutzkever
My Sister Ethel (translated by Ruth Whitman)/62

Dahlia Ravikovitch
A Mother Walks Around (translated by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch)/84
Expulsion from Beirut (translated by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch)/86
Jewish Portrait (translated by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch)/88
Robin Becker
The Unnamed City/92

Linda Hirschhorn
Music/64

Rebecca T. Alpert
Exploring Jewish Women’s Rituals/66

Amy Beth
Women Struggle for Peace in a Time of Crisis/81

Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Maps in My Bible/93

Reviews
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of Work War II Jewish Resistance/117<

Ellen Stone
Dreams of an Insomniac and A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, by Irena Klepfisz/122

Cheryl Clarke and Bernice Mennis
Making Faces, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, by Gloria Anzaldua/128

Ellen Herman
Enter Password: Recovery, by Elly Bulkin/138

Notes on Contributors/144

CONTENTS Volume 2, Number 2Fall 1991

Irena Klepfisz
Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust/13

Lisa Jacobson
Art Gallery/44

Helena Lipstadt and Pam Mitchell
Loving Across Differences in Class/48

Linda Mannheim
Politics/59

Poetry
Adrienne Rich/55, 124
Margaret Randall/66
Carol. V. Davis/97
Barbara A. Clark/68
Kathryn Hellerstein/109
Susan Sherman/Cover 4

Julia Porper
Nowhere at Home/69

Special Section: Breast Cancer in Our Lives
Sandy Polishuk
Interview with Jackie Winnow/72
Breasts/78

Cancer Risks for Jewish Women/85
Resources/86

Rosanna Sorella
Inheritance/89

Nancy Fried
Sculpture/74, 80
Marian Wise Broida
Coming of Age in Seattle: Families Look toward Bar and Bat Mitzvah/90

Jessie Montell
Israeli Identities: The Military, The Family and Feminism/99

Nabila Espanioli and Dalia Sachs
Peace Process: Israeli and Palestinian Women/112

Sherry Gorelick
Geneva Conference Report/120

Laura Wernick and Leila Wice
The 12th International Conference of Gay and Lesbian Jews/129

Reviews
Ghada Talhami
Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke/131

Susan Sherman
Woman Sitting at the Machine Thinking: Poems 1978-1987, by Karen Brodine/135

Bettina Aptheker
117 Days, by Ruth First
Ties of Blood, by Gillian Slovo/139

Pam Mitchell
Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party, by Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman/144

Notes on Contributors/155

CONTENTS Volume 3, Number 1Spring/Summer 1992

Mab Segrest
An Organizer’s Memoir/21

Special Section: Loving across Differences of Physical Ability
Satern
Crossing Over/34

Jessica Barshay and Judith Masur
Love and Tsuris/36

Evelyn Neuhaus
Resources/45

Wendy Uhlmann
Tribute to My Dad/47

Jill Lessing
Collages/50

Mickey Spencer
Caretaker Nightmares/51

Poetry
Elana Dykewomon/15
Karen Propp/33
Anita Barrows/55
Carole Bernstein/57
Diana A. Cohen/58
Lynn Ungar/134

Special Section: Making Our Lives Visible: Poor and Working Class Women Speak Out
Pesha Gertler
Journal Notes/63

Rebecca Alpert
Jews, Class and Education/67

Carmen Canales
Going to School in Hondoras/70

Aurora Levins Morales
Tsu got vel ikh veynen/74

Chaia Lehrer
In My Neighborhood/78
tova
Whispers/81

Janice Gutman
Poor in Money but Not Much Else: Aura, Elana and Barbara Myerson (an interview)/86

Pam Mitchell
A Daughter of Communists: Emily J. (an interview)/91

Tania Kravath
Matriarchs/98

Sora Newman
Legacy of Confusion/100

Felice Yeskel
Coming Out about Money/102

Carole Vopat
And Then I Got a Beating/115

Ellie Barbarash
Naming Ourselves, Telling Our Stories/125

Conference Report
Jenney Milner and Donna Spiegelman
Carrying It On/138

Music Review
Miriam Gerberg
Timepieces: Between Jewish Past and Future, by Rita Falbel

Review Essay
Elly Bulkin
Reading Class: Lesson in Privilege/151

Reviews
Judith Arcana
My Jewish Face and Other Stories, by Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz/161

Joanna Kadi
A Mountainous Journey, by Fadwa Tuqan/164

Notes on Contributors/169

CONTENTS Volume 3, Number 2Spring 1993

Yiddish Fiction in Translation
Blume Lempel
Scenes on a Bare Canvas (translated by Sheva Zucker)/12

Poetry
Judith Chalmer/25
Willa Schneberg/43
Pesha Gertler/45
Alexandra Grilikhes/53
Rochelle Nameroff/78
Terry Hauptman/92

Lisa Link
Warnings/27

Ruth Knafo Setton
Songs from My Mother’s House/39

Edith Chevat
It Won’t Happen to Me/46

Christie Balka
Lesbian Parenting and Jewish Communities/57

Sophie
An Unexpected Friendship/66

Nan Fink
A Question of Belonging/70

Stacey Freed
Hebrew Lessons/74

Yiddish Poetry in Translation
Malka Locker
The World without a Protector (translated by Julia Mazow)/80
Celia Dropkin
Young Girl (translated by Julia Mazow)/82

Rajzel Zychlinska
Miracle (translated by Julia Mazow)/84

Basya Hunter
Lillian/93

Galia Goodman
Papercuts: Traditional and Contemporary/97

Anna Rubin
Ruth Rubin
Alicia Svigals
Laura Liben
Adrienne Cooper
Rita Falbel
Roundtable: Jewish Women Discuss Their Music/102

Judith Cohen
Women in Judeo-Spanish Music/113

Tobe Levin
Feminism and Nazism/120

Reviews
Joan Ariel and Ellen Broidy
Cancer in Two Voices, by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum/121

Virginia R. Dominguez
Walking the Red Line, edited by Deena Hurwitz/125

Notes on Contributors/138

CONTENTS Volume 4, Number 1Winter/Spring 1994

Irena Klepfisz
Di mames, dos loshn/The Mother, the Language: Feminism, Yidishkayt, and the Politics of Memory/12

Poetry
Gwynne Garfinkle/48
Terren Ilana Wein/49
Elana Dykewomon/62
Enid Dame/71

Roger McDougle
Linda Eber
Jetta Fraser
At The March on Washington with Bridges (photo essay)/50

Naomi Finkelstin
Celebrating Differences or the Difference between Pain and Oppression/59

Ruth Behar
Mi Puente/My Bridge: Revisiting a Jewish Childhood in Cuba/63

Linda Mannheim
Prism/75

Art Gallery
Rebecca Alexander
Carol Hamoy/81

Rebecca Alpert
If Not Now, When: A Jewish Delegation in Haiti/89

Arlene Stein
Back to the Ghetto/97

Ruth Cohen
Women in Black/101

Reviews
Gayle Kirshenbaum
Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality: A Sourcebook, edited by Dianne Ashton and Ellen M. Umansky/103

Elana Dykewomon
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, by Judith Katz/107

Rebecca Ripley
Biblical Symbolism in Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound/111

Notes on Contributors/123

CONTENTS Volume 4, Number 2Winter 1994/1995

Carol Hamoy
Louise Kramer
Marilyn R. Rosenberg
Jenny Tango
Elyse Taylor
Artists Talk with Edith Chevat/13

Poetry
Rita Karman/32
Sherry Lee Linkon/34
Kyla Wazana/57
Netta Blatt/72
Adrienne Ross/74
Elaine Batcher/76

Marjorie Agosin
A Cross and a Star (translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman)/36

Loolwa Khazzoom
A Bridge between Different Worlds/49

Yiddish Poetry in Translation (translated by Ruth Whitman)
Anna Margolin/58
Celia Dropkin/75
Rachel Korn/76

Sarah Jacobus
Airlift/64

Myrna Yoder
Blockprint/75

Arlene Spencer Nadel
My Dinner with Fat Jewish Dykes/77

Arlene Levy
The Lesson of the Rabbi/82

Reviews
Ellen Rifkin
A Price below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals, by Naomi Shepherd/96

Jenney Milner
Hot Chicken Wings, by Jyl Lynn Felman/105

Michele Dore and Susan Nosov
The Issue Is Power, by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz/109

Notes on Contributors/122

CONTENTS Volume 5, Number 1Summer 1995

Sampling Jewish Women’s Art: British Columbia, Oregon, Washington

Sima Elizabeth Shefrin/15
Sidonie Caron/27
Lynette Brodsky/36
L.B. Goodman/46
Annie Dawid/50
Marilyn Marcus/77
Selma Waldman/81

Berta Freistadt and Rebekka Wedell
Histories of Estrangement—Motherless Jews/17

Helene Hoffman
Miriam/30

Barbara Baer
Pearl St. to Jew St., A Journey/38

Poetry
Lyn Lifshin/47
Gabrielle S. Kaplan/49
tova/60
Susan Gold/78
Ellen Bass/82
Pesha Gertler/84

Hinde Burstin
Yiddish Poetry in Translation/51
Libby Bottero
Jewish Women and Welfare/64

Alyson Cole
Premarital Syndrome/70

Gershon Winkler
Pioneering Women Rebbes of the Southwest/85

Lia Lynn Rosen
War Zone/Blessing Shields/87, 90, 93

Tobe Levin
Women, War and Peace/97

Art Review
Sharon Kahn
Judy Chicago’s Holocaust Project/100

Reviews
Susan Rosenberg
Memoirs of a Race Traitor, by Mab Segrest/104

Marcia Freedman
Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk about Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives, edited by Tracy Moore/109

Notes on Contributors/121

CONTENTS Volume 5, Number 2Winter 1996

Special Issue: Jewish Women on Land

In Memory
Reena Bernards
A Tribute to Mary Khass/7

tova
In Memory of Leah Moussaioff/9

Liza Rankow
Rosh Hashanah 1994/13

Elizabeth Mary Larson
What Passes for Love, These Days/14

Yonit Kosovske
Ceremony/16

Introduction to Jewish Women on Land/17
Judith Arcana
I’ll Tell You What My People Know of the Land/18
Stone on Stone/68

Ellen Rifkin
Fun di oysyes koyekh shepn/Drawing Strength from the Letters/20

Aurora Levins Morales
Nadie La Tiene: Land, Ecology and Nationalism/31

Hinda
Ice Skating Across California: Adventures of a Roving Yid/40

zana
Desert Home/46

Thyme S. Siegel
The Lost Tribe/49

Netta Blatt
The Woman with Israel in Her Head/54

Merrill Black, Gail Simon, and tova
Working Class Words on Tenements and Gardens/56

Nadell Fishman
Planting/69

Claire Sherman
Tu B’Shvat: A Different Women’s Seder/70

Carey Glass Morris
Jewish Women and Ecofeminism/74

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg
My Vision of Shalom/Peace with Justice/80

Irene Diamond
What, You’re an Ecofeminist and You Don’t Practice Mikvah?/85

Susan Rothbaum
Mayim Chayim/89

Judith Werner
“Water Lily” and “Transplanting Lettuces”/92

Books and Resources for Further Reading/101

Willa Schneberg
You Know the Killing Fields/102

tova
Notes on Jewish Vegetarian Cooking/107

Reviews
David Mevorach Seidenberg
Fertile Ground: Women, Earth and the Limits of Control, by Irene Diamond/90

Hannah Ashley
Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, edited by Deborah Bernstein/94

Beth Hege
In Honour of our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival, by George Littlechild, et al/103

Elana Dykewomon
Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, edited by Frieda Forman, et al/114

Notes on Contributors/127

CONTENTS Volume 6, Number 1Summer 1996

Edith Chevat
Bd Magdoff
Sherry Most
Annette Rubinstein
Conversation with Annette & Friends/7

Documenting Working Class Lives: An Interview with Sharon Vance/31

Sandra Haar
Seeds of Doubt: Constructing a Sephardic Identity/36

Tobi Asmoucha
Jerusalem and Dalyat el-Carmel (photo gallery)/36

Michele Lefkowith
The Radical Right and the Christian Coalition: Some Things Jews Need to Know/86

Felice Yeskel
The Growing Divide/91

Gila Svirsky
Bombs, Revenge and One Iota of Hope/97

Yiddish
Sarah Traister-Moskovitz
Poems in Yiddish/Poems in English/54

Troim Katz Handler
The Yiddish Vocabulary of Love and Sex/60

Poetry
Laurie Suzanne Lessen
Abba Kovner Listened/52
Lynne Meredith Cohn
Universal Spoon/66

Emily Warn
Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings/72

Susan Rich
The Woman with a Hole in Her Face/96

Creative Writing
Nathalie Stephens
Starting from Scratch: My Jewish Closet/43

Colleen Umbogy McKee
Statues and Stones/67

Michelle Clark
The Bat Mitzvah Mother

Sandell Morse
The Temple Chooses a Rabbi/80

Art Review
Tania Kravath
Passages: Jewish Women’s Immigration and Family History/101

Reviews
Naomi Graetz
Jewish Women/Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life, by Aviva Cantor/107

Tobe Levin
Born After the Shoah: Jewish Women in Germany, edited by Jessica Jacoby, Caludia Schoppmann, and Wendy Zena-Henry/111

Notes on Contributors/123

CONTENTS Volume 6, Number 2Spring 1997

Special Issue: Jewish Women “13 to 30”

Amanda Seigel
Introduction/8

Bridges Interviews the Editors of HUES/10

Ophira Edut
Working Class Words: From Sacred Soil to Top Soil/17

Dana Goldberg Brenner
Aliyah/20

Edith Chevat Interviews Three Teenagers/22

Miriam Budner
Tualitan Bottom/32

Hannah Sarvasy
Ozah: A Drash on Sodom and Gemorrah/36

Tanya Tolchin
Turn/37

Rachel Jane
Free Write on The Others/38

Anna Kuperberg
Photographs/40

Rebecca Gould
Young, Jewish and Lesbian/43

Shira Spector
Cartoons/45

Kyla Wazana
Sketch/51
What Do You Say to an Anti-Semite?/54

Shauna Richler-Lancit
Untitled Story/56

Anonymous
The Monster at the End of the Book/60

Reena Mitchell Katz
Hotel Jewropa/62

Robin Bernstein
Burnt Words/64

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
Lucia/66

Tamara Ruth Cohen
Y’mai Shoah/69

Yaya Padawer
Sculpture/70

Tanya Tolchin
The Yellow Book/72

Deborah Goldschmidt
The Kibbutz (1989)/74

Daveena Mara Tauber
Sister of Clay/75

Blythe Horman
Diving Is My Dream/82

Alana Suskin
Moving Away/85
Though She Tarry/86

Caryn Aviv
Standing Apart, Creating from Within/87

Movie and Video Reviews
Faith Jones
Naomi’s Legacy, by Wendy Levy
Emily and Gitta, by Rosalyn Jacobs and Tami Gold
Like a Bride, by Guita Schyfter/92

Fiction
Lilian Nattel
The Speaker/101

Poetry
Jill Bellrose
Juliana and Esther/107

Maggie Jaffe
Lilith/108
Exile’s Return/109

Kenith Simmons
Honey from the Rock/110

Jill Hammer
The Problem of Immortality/112

Review
Rabbi Debrah Cohen and Ruth Kraut
The Book of Blessings, by Marcia Falk

Notes on Contributors/122

CONTENTS Volume 7, Number 1Winter 1997/1998

Special Issue: Sephardi and Mizrahi Women Write about their Lives

Debra Crespin and Sarah Jacobus
Introduction/5

Poetry
Brenda Serotte
Crossing the Bridge of Sighs (excerpt)/8
Star of the Harem/25

Ruth Behar
Forty Nameless Poems/45

Netta Blatt
Grandma Wasina’s Laundry Day/74

Fiction
Shoshana Simons
Searching for Fritada/10

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
Skirmish in the Desert/21

Rita Arditti
My Mother’s Wedding/26

Essays
Rena Varon Down
My Cousin the Nun/15

Ruby Daniel
Memories of Cochin Jew Town/39

Flora Samuel
Bene Israel Cradle Ceremony/43

Sherri Cassuto
Sephardic Lesbian at the Bar Mitzvah Games/78

Shoshana Madmoni and Loolwa Khazzoom
Reports from the First Feminist Mizrahi Conference/83

Memoir
Miriam Israel Moses
Survivors and Pieces of Glass/29

Interview
Alice Haya Lotate Kinberg
What Is of Importance: An Interview/50

Haya Shalom
Ilana Eliya/71

Novel Excerpt
Ruth Knafo Setton
Myth/61

Review
Rachel Amado Bortnick
Sephardic American Voices: 200 Years of a Literary Legacy, edited by Diane Matza/94

Poetry
Carol Dine
In the Story of Solomon
With My Sister/102

Leah Zazulyer
Visiting My Fifty-Nine Year Old, Just Divorced College Roommate in Her New, Needs-Work House in Rhinebeck, New York/104

Nikki Stiller
On Both Frontiers (excerpt)/106

Review
Nancy Ross
La Bode, by Sabina Berman/109

Film Review
Sally Sheklow
A Healthy Baby Girl, by Judith Helfand/117

Notes on Contributors/123

CONTENTS Volume 7, Number 2Summer 1998

Essays
The Memory of Their Lives Inspires Us/3

Lori Ginzberg
Reflections on Jewish Secular Traditions/7

Liora Moriel and Alana Suskin
Jewish Feminists Talk about the Promise Keepers/15

Reviews
Liora Moriel
Between Jesus and the Market, by Linda Kintz

Sarah Wetherson
Life on the Line, by Faye Wattleton

Francia
Personal Visions: Art and History Meet/27, 108, 119

Israeli Issues 1998
Essays
Gila Svirsky
Alternative Israeli Independence Day/28

Henriette Dahan-Kalev
Keshet: The Mizrakhi Democratic Rainbow/30

Larissa Remennick
Russian-Speaking Women in Israel/36

Review
Esther Fuchs
Ribcage: Israeli Women’s Fiction, edited by Carol Diament and Lily Rattok
New Women’s Writing from Israel, edited by Risa Domb/44

Poetry
Rowena Silver
Plummer Park/48

Yiddish Literature
Fiction
Rokhl Brokhes
Avremelekh/Little Abrahams, translated by Frieda Forman and Ethel Raicus, with drawings by Selma Waldman/49

Margo Rabb
Farmer Girls/94

Poetry
Melissa Cahnmann
Photograph/68

Rita Karman
The Time When I Bought Everything Two or Three Sizes Too Large/74

Colleen Umbogy McKee
Lilith and the Parisian Man/76

Rebecca Schwartz
Wedding Night/77

Leah Thorn
Working Class Jewish Blues/90

Herman Asarnow
Heir’s Loom/92

Jessica Weissman
How to Be Sisters Even though You Won’t Admit You Look Alike/99

Judith Werner
The Trouble with Informers/100

Rita Falbel
I’d Give Anything to be Able to Sing (poem and essay)/101

Joan Annsfire
Genealogy/106

Willa Schneberg
The Poet as Witness (poem and essay)/109

Deborah Bacharach
The Only Jew
Sestina for My Family/114

Reviews
Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Di froyen/Women and Yiddish/69

Ruth Abrams
Unheroic Conduct, by Daniel Boyarin/78

Joanne Cohen
Like Bread on the Seder Plate, by Rebecca Alpert
Beyond the Pale, by Elana Dykewomon/83

Naomi Graetz
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women, edited by Rachel Josefowitz Siegel and Ellen Cole/116

Notes on Contributors/122

CONTENTS Volume 8, Number 1 & 2Spring 2000

Special Issue: Confronting Text and Tradition

Essays
Alison Gass
The Art and Spirituality of Helene Aylon/12

Thistle Parker-Hartog
The Stranger’s Perspective/38

Ellen Cassedy
Honoring the Everyday: My Daughter’s Yidishe Bas Mitsve/46

Jessica Montell
Uncharted Territory: Generating Opposition to Torture in Israel/106

Nina Jo Smith
The Sudden Jew/113

Conversation
A Conversation between Helene Aylon and Rabbi Rolando Matalon/19

Poetry
Alicia Ostriker
Jephthah’s Daughter: A Lament/25

Bonnie Lyons
Deborah’s War Song/58
Walking Out/59

Carol Barrett
Esther Counsels the Wife of a Confederate General/64

Leah Berger
Huh, Rootwumum/88

Malca Litovitz
Four O’Clock/90
Nehama in White/91

TAMIR
Lady Shekhinah/92
Jerusalem/94

Anne W. Silver
SHMA/96

Vicki Angel
The Inquisitor’s Pan/109

Muriel Moulton
War Story/110

Ellen Bass
Pesach/111
They Lied/112

Donna Patt Gallers
Writing in Yiddish Today/135
Although, Maybe, Not/136

tova
Stop All Jewish Cooking Now!/146

Sherry Gorelick
Emma Gorelick at Ninety-One/148

Jacqueline Karp Gendre
Keeping My Moth Shut/150

Elaine Terranova
Ministry to the Jews/152
The Cleansing/153

Rachel Zucker
Waiting for Elijah/154

Interview
Monica Szurmuk
One Single Countless Death: An Interview with Nora Strejilevich/97

Novel Excerpt
Nora Strejilevich
One Single Countless Death (translated by Cristina de la Torre)/101

Fiction
Elissa Goldberg
Unkosher/53

Farideh Dayanim Goldin
A Bridge for My Father/81

Reviews
Norma Rosen
Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First Women, edited by Enid Dame, Lilly Rivlin, and Henny Wenkart/55

Dawn Robinson Rose
Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics, by Rachel Adler/60

Rabbi Gail Labovitz
Judaism Since Gender, edited by Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt/67

Alana Suskin
Silence Is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wife Beating, by Naomi Graetz/77

CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 12001

Special Issue: Writing and Art by Jewish Women of Color

Shahanna McKinney
Introduction/4

Poetry
Hilary Tham
Scenes from a Marriage/15

Amal Rana
Ebony-Vermilion Stories/46

Mary Loving Blanchard
In the Sudan/98
Hanukkah Celebration/99
A Village of Witches/100

Memoir
Carolivia Herron
Peacesong/9

Essays
Dina Dabhany-Miraglia
Moving Women, Moving Me/26

Katya Gibel Azoulay
Jewishness After Mount Sinai: Jews, Blacks and the (Multi)Racial Category/31

Siona Benjamin
Finding Home and the Dilemma of Belonging/59

Rosa Maria Pegueros
Of Faith and Fire/66

Molly Malekar
The Compass of Human Conscience: Notes on the Israeli Peace Camp, May 2001/76

Tamu Ngina
Afram Jews Forum: Creation of an Online Community/90

Internet Resources on Jews of African Descent/93

Harriet McKinney
Reflections of a Jewish Mother/95

Conversations/Interviews
Reena Bernards
An Ethopian Gilgul Come to Life: An Interview with Toni Eisendorf/21

Sigal Eshed
Shula Keshet
Ahuva Mu’alem
Shuli Nachshon
Zmira Poran Zion
Dafna Shalom
Chen Shish
Parvin Shmueli-Buchnik
Orna Zaken
Sister: Mizrahi Women Artists in Israel/49

Siona Benjamin
Belaynesh Zevadia: Israeli, Ethiopian Diplomat/81

Art
Margo Mercedes Rivera-Weiss
Incajew/64

Personal Narrative/Fiction
Miri Hunter Haruach
Born to be Yeminite/84

Lital Levy
Conversations with a Jinni/102

Reviews
Shahanna McKinney
Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker/114
Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of your Kin and Other Myths of Identity, by Katya Gibel Azoulay/117

Notes on Contributors/124

CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 22002

Special Issue: Calling Every Resource: An Issue Devoted to Poetry

Introductions/3

Poetry
Judith Arcana
You Ask, I Answer/10
The Stepmother or, She Means Well/97

Judith Clark
Wild Geese/11

Ellen Bass
Touching the Untouches/12
All I Have To Do/20

Judy Benoliel Belsky
The Massage Therapist in Tiberias Hot Springs/14
Acupuncture/106

Anne Babson
Faith Healer/15

Martha Shelley
A Solstice Flowering/16

Jessica Stein
Your Little Civil War, Brighton Beach/18
Moving from Place to Place/113

Willa Schneberg
What We Want/21

Nicole Louise Reid
Kissing Stars’ Points/23

Mary Loving Blanchard
Graffiti/24

Janet Kaplan
On the Eve/32

Veronica Golos
Sa’rai in Egypt, Ha’gar Sees Sa’rai/33
A Tree of Dead Birds/44

Tzivia Gover
What Hagar Conceived/35

Frances Payne Adler
The Breasted God/36

Jennifer Arin
December in an Apartment Complex/38

Meg Jochild
Dixie Cups Revisited/39

Joanne Seltzer
On the Conversion of Jews/42
Obsessively Jealous Husband and the Response from the Book of Numbers/43

Stephanie Hammer
Torah Bones/45

Enid Dame
Thoughts on the Way to a Women in Black Vigil/47
The Daughters of Zelophehad/82
The Space Between/114

Elana Dykewomon
My Mother and the Wars/48

Ann Sylvester>br> The River/55

Kathryn Hellerstein
Holy Places/56

Alana Suskin
Machpelah/59

Lisa Katz
Photographs Taken Near Ma’aleh Adumim, March 1998/61
Nahum Gutman’s Resting at Noon, 1926/98

Dorothy Field
Chava in Black/62
Feasting in the Ba’Ka/63

Adrienne Rich
Collaborations/64

Amira Hess
A Land in Which No Rain Falls/67

Sharon Kessler
Say Yes to the Fire/68
An Old Picture of Napalm/69

Shirley Kaufman
Daily Ritual/70

Yosefa Raz
Ghazals for Jacob/71

Karen Alkalay-Gut
Suicide Bomber/73
Belly Dancing—Tel Aviv March 2002/76

Ruth Knafo Setton
Speaking in Tongues/74

Genie Zeiger
To Go to Jerusalem/77
Faith/111

Roberta Gould
The Norm/79

Layle Silbert
The Greenness of Grass/81

Tillie Friedenberg
What Papa Always Said/85

Doris Ferleger
Dark Horse/86

Susan Terris
Boychick/88
Jewish Holiday Tattoos/88

Kim Roberts
The Immigrant/90

Maxine Susman
Exodus from Kosovo/91

Carol V. Davis
The Choral Synagogue, I and II/93

Sharon Garsten
Probably/96

Raphael Dagold
For Whom/104

Madeline Tiger
Cocktail Talk/105

Jennifer Markell
To Have and Have Not/107

Lyn Lifshin
August 6: Enola Gay and My Mother’s Last Trip to Me/108

Vera Schwarcz
Edim/109

Teya Schaffer
Kaddish/110

Elean Stone
Night Walk in the Month of Tevet/112

Judith Clark
I Want To Go Inside/115

Jessica De Koninck
The Last Chapter/117

Art

Claire Wasser
Liberation/46
Claremont/80

Essay
Anne Herzog
Art of the World: Muriel Rukeyser’s Poetry of Witness/26

Interview
Edith Chevat
A Talk with Naomi Replansky/99

Notes on Contributors/118
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