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The Triangle Fire as a comic-strip narrative. Judith Plaskow and Annette Daum on Christian feminist anti-Semitism. Why can’t women say kaddish? How to get what we want by the year 2000.

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Feminist Mourning

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Poetry: In Memoriam, Ethel Rosenberg

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A poem by Louise Berkinow in memory of Ethel Rosenberg

Ruth Kluger 1906-1980

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A story of soul connection and the friendship of Ruth Kluger and Peggy Mann.

The Kaddish

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A young girl’s struggle to be her father’s "Kaddish" finds an important ally in her grandfather.

Over My Dead Body…

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How the funeral prayer diminishes women.

The Mourning Minyan

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Saying Kaddish is a consciousness-raiser when two sisters try to honor their mother’s memory.

The Triangle Fire

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Retold in comic-strip form by Trina Robbins.

Reclaiming Jewish Herstory

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Discover the academic reframing of a course entitled "The Jewish-American Experience" utilizing feminist literature, reclaiming space for women in scholarly Jewish discourse.

How To Get What We Want by the Year 2000

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Explore the aspirations of 1980s Jewish feminist thinkers Sue Levi Elwell, Jane Litman, and Rebecca Alpert as well as what their hopes for the 2000s held.

Feminists and Faith

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LILITH interviews Judith Plaskow and Annette Daum. A dialogue at the brink of the abyss--feminist religious thinkers Plaskow and Daum ask if man-made religions should be salvaged by and for women. And do Jewish and Christian feminists have anything to say to each other?

Blaming Jews for the Death of the Goddess

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Some recent feminist spiritual writing reveals old biases in new books.

Blaming Jews for the Birth of Patriarchy

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Christian feminist anti-Semitism---women fall back on ancient scapegoat.

Prophecy or Paranoia?

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The subject we’ve been avoiding: it doesn’t only happen in France.

Lines of Communication

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Letters from our readers on women rabbis, I.B. Singer, and more.

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