Bridges
Volume 11
Number 1Health Matters
Number 2Autumn 2006

CONTENTS Volume 11, Number 1Spring 2006

Special Issue: Health Matters

From the Editor/1

Essays
Elaine Fox
Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Health Care Is a Human Right/7

Renee Gal Primack
Breast Care and the Mind/Body Thing/29

Maskit Bendel
More than Miracles Needed: Breast Cancer among Palestinian Women/33

L.A. Reed
Drugs No Easy Answer for Women on the Edge of Time/46

Photography/Photomontages
Lisa Link
Primary Care/18
Warnings/67
Birth Matters/118

Susan Eisenberg
Sometimes Lucky, Sometimes Not/50

Poetry
Gretchen Primack
Toni 1C/23

Judith Arcana
Fiction, Science/69

Willa Schneberg
In an Airplane Lavatory on Route to Her New Home/71
Now a Good Morning/73
Piercing One Ear/75
My Hair/77
Hunger Strike/79

Susan H. Case
In Hospital/81

Claire Drucker
Flight/82
Karen Mandell
Rose Has a New Walker/84

Brenda Serotte
The Last Kaddish/86

Sheryl Luna
Gall Bladder {back cover)

Yiddish Poetry
Esther Shumiatcher
Trans. Myra Mniewski
In Hospital/39

Creative Prose
Jyl Lynn Felman
Terri Schiavo, Inc./55

Jessica Weissman
Writing Shiva/88

Fiction
Lili Artel
Cantata for Five Voices/91

Rose Rappoport Moss
Judy’s Kaleidoscope/102

Ellen Meeropol
Necessary Fierceness/108

Stephanie Waxman
In the Flat above the Bakery/113

Reviews
Penelope Scambly Schott
What If Your Mother, by Judith Arcana/122

Sarah Buttenwieser
The Truth behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?, by Mariam Peskowitz

Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform, by Sharon Hays/124

Contributor Notes/130

CONTENTS Volume 11, Number 2Autumn 2006

From the Editors/1

Oral History
Harriet Malinowitz
Jenny and Pearl: A Retrospective/6

Non-Fiction Prose
Peggy Landsman
The Community Chorus/32

April Rosenblum
Ethics of the Soldiers/36

Anonymous
Jewish Women Watching/89

Wendy Marcus
Words like Arrows/100

Poetry
Lois Roisman
Looking for Lamed Vovs/45

B.E. Kahn
Between Capernaum and Safad/47

Davi Walders
R.U./49
General Dr. Roza Papo Reports from the Front/51
Emilie’s List/54
One White Rose/56

Elaine Batcher
Come Again (Resisting the Right, Yesterday)/93

Sandra H. Tarlin
My Uncle the Golen/95
The Meaning of the Word Semitic/98

Joanne Seltzer
The Tenth Woman/119
The Tenth Woman’s Morning Song/120
Women’s Minyan at the Western Wall/121

Buff Lindau
Fritata for Hanukah/123
The Girls of Rosh Hashanah/125

Sarah Rose Horowitz
Hineini/127

Vera Schwarcz
Dreaming the Song of Songs/Back Cover

Sarah Rose Horowitz
Hineini/127

Vera Schwarcz
Dreaming the Song of Songs/Back Cover

Hebrew Protest Poetry
Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back
Liat Kaplan
(In Reply to the Question What Are You Still Doing Here)/60

Dvora Amir
Retinal Tear/64

Dahlia Falah
The Night after the Surgeries/68

Then We Didn’t Yet Know/70
Thursday at Angel’s Bakery/74

Interview
Cole Krawitz
Beyond the Big Bucks and Media Savvy: An Interview with Jean Hardisty and Esther Kaplan/77

Yiddish Poetry
Shoshane Tshenstokhovska, trans. Hinde Ena Burstin
A Vaybele/A Little Wife/110

Fiction
Gila Tal
Rivka’s Tomb/114

Nina Judith Katz
The Good and the True/128

Miriam Budner
Further/139

Reviews
Wendy Kenin
Young Jewish and Left, a film by Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer/148

Frances Payne Adler
The Angle of Sharpest Ascending, by Ingrid Wendt/153

Dror Abend-David
Proletpen: Rebel Yiddish Poets, ed. Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub, trans. Amelia Glaser/158

Contributors/162
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