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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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In Memoriam: Ethel Rosenberg

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Ethel Rosenberg

Ruth Kluger 1906-1980

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I met Ruth quite by accident, at a restaurant in Tel Aviv. I was with the Director of the Israel Government Tourist Office, for I was doing travel articles on... Read more »

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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Up from the footnotes.

How To Get What We Want by the Year 2000

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A cross-section of Jewish feminist activists dream a different future, and chart the course toward it.

Feminists and Faith

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LILITH: Let’s pick up on the article about Christian feminist anti-Semitism. Where, precisely, is it occurring? Among which elements in the church? PLASKOW: First let me describe the two levels... Read more »

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 Inventing Patriarchy

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There is a new myth developing in Christian feminist circles. It is a myth which tells us that the ancient Hebrews invented patriarchy: that before them the goddess reigned in... Read more »

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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Dear LILITH: I thoroughly enjoyed Cynthia Ozick’s “Notes Toward Finding the Right Question ” [issue #6]. Having fought these battles for so long, I had thought that I was past... Read more »

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