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Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.

Happening

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Study DRISHA, a new institute for Jewish studies designed “to meet the intellectual needs of the committed Jewish woman of today,” has opened on Manhattan’s West Side. The institute’s program,... Read more »

Honoring Gail Rubin

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A new library-lecture hall was dedicated at Kibbutz Ma’agen Micha’el’s nature field school in honor of Gail Rubin, the wildlife photographer murdered by terrorists March 11, 1978 near the kibbutz... Read more »

Bella Out, Landa Stays

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When former Rep. Bella Abzug was fired by President Carter from her job of Co-Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee for Women, 25 of that Committee’s 40 members resigned in... Read more »

Seminar in Miami

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When the University of Miami first offered Literature of the Holocaust as an undergraduate English course in the Fall of 1973, Professor Helen Fagin had to define the Holocaust for... Read more »

Women in the Holocaust

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LILITH is planning a special issue on Women in the Holocaust and the Resistance. We welcome manuscripts (including translations), in these categories: survivor testimony, oral history, autobiographical and experiential accounts,... Read more »

“Holocaust”‘s Real Lesson

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A recently released American Jewish Committee study revealed that more viewers than non-viewers of the television mini-series “Holocaust” “reacted negatively to what was seen as Jewish passivity.” The study, “Americans... Read more »

Follow-Up on News

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Jailed Women Since the publication of Lilith’s feature story on Jewish women prisoners at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility [“Jewish Women in Jail, ” Lilith #5], there have... Read more »

American Women Seek Ties

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A group of North American Jewish women are discussing the formation of an ad-hoc committee to facilitate liaison between Israeli and American feminists. The women, many of whom are active... Read more »

Rape Crisis Center Closes

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The Feminist Center in Tel Aviv, which included a Rape Crisis Center providing a telephone hotline for rape victims (see Kol Ishah, LILITH No. 5), as well as counseling, discussion... Read more »

Szold Museum

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A mini-museum memorializing Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, organizer of Youth Aliyah, and a leader of the Yishuv (Jewish community in pre-state Israel), was dedicated on March 18, 1979, at... Read more »

Hadassah: Choosing Powerlessness

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“What had our mothers been doing then that they had no wealth to leave us?” — Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own Surely Virginia Woolf’s protest about our mothers’... Read more »

Women’ s Bookstore Opens in Haifa

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“Only when we women learn to believe in our own strength will we succeed in influencing society. I hope Woman’s Voice will help women learn to believe in themselves.” Thus... Read more »

Women for Women: Haifa’s Shelter for Battered Wives

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“All their lives, people have been telling these women what to do. What we want to do is give them time to think. Here, they’re not in danger of their... Read more »

Battered Wives and the Law

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Some 60,000 cases of women beaten by their husbands were reported in Israel in 1978, according to WIZO, the Women’s International Zionist Organization, which offers legal aid to women in... Read more »

I. B. Singer’s Misogyny

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The Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally, but is also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.

Golda’s Ambiguous Legacy

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Why did this extraordinary woman leave us a legacy of Zionism without Feminism when she herself suffered discrimination as a woman and struggled mightily against stereotyped gender roles "to be a person?"

The Politics of Women’s Ordination

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Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.

Mazel Tov

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Ordained as Rabbis Reconstructionist: Linda Holtzman of Philadelphia; and Gail S. Shuster-Bouslika of Evanston, II., the first Reconstructionist woman rabbi to settle in Israel. She is teaching in the Jerusalem... Read more »

No Longer Among Us

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Sara Feder-Keyfitz (January 8) age 80. Keyfitz was a former president of the Pioneer Women (1951-1955), a prominent sociologist, and an advocate of women’s rights. Sara Herzog (January 13) age... Read more »

Our Soviet Sisters

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Underground Kindergarten The Jewish kindergarten started by the Moscow Women’s Committee is expected to open again this fall. During the past year, some dozen young children of Refuseniks and those... Read more »

Protest CCAR Arizona Convention

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The 90th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the organization of Reform rabbis in the United States and Canada, was held last March in Phoenix despite... Read more »

Pogroms in Ethiopia

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The Falashas (Beta Israel) of Ethiopia are “on the verge of a black Holocaust,” according to reports and spokespeople coming out of the war-torn African country. The Falashas have lived... Read more »

Leadership Skills Seminar

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Three years ago, the Milwaukee Jewish Federation Women’s Division passed a resolution, subsequently accepted by the Executive Committee of the Federation, calling for increased participation of women in top policy... Read more »

Women Professionals

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A top official of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council has urged member agencies to actively recruit more women as both lay leaders and professionals. Speaking before some 400... Read more »

Jewish Women’s Studies

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The session on “Women and Female Imagery in Jewish Literature” at the 10th annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, held last winter in Boston, marked the beginning recognition... Read more »

San Diego Seder

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“And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.” (Ex. 12:37) The Exodus: the men were counted; the children were... Read more »

San Diego Jewish Women’s Institute

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The Women’s Institute for Continuing Jewish Education and Growth and Teshuvah in San Diego, which offers Jewish women in that city a program of classes, workshops, lectures and vocational counseling,... Read more »

Immigrant Women

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In May, 1902, scores of outraged Jewish housewives took to the streets chanting slogans, dousing the meat in butcher store windows with petroleum and setting it afire. Some 15 years... Read more »

Discrimination Against Women Educators

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A study by the American Association for Jewish Education revealed that the small percentage of women in supervisory jobs in the field stems both from discrimination and from women’s response... Read more »

Lines of Communication

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The theme of the major features of this issue is how we as Jewish women are affected by how Jewish men and the Jewish tradition view us and treat us.... Read more »

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