Bima
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Introducing a new column – a platform for opinion by Jewish women on issues of the day.
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The Jewish stake in abortion rights. Women in the Israeli army. A U.N. conference on women raises ugly issues. Immigrant foremothers, circa 1900. Diary of Rose Pastor Stokes, sweatshop laborer.
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Copenhagen: One Year Later
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Jewish women who attended last year’s United Nations Mid-Decade Conference on Women finally begin to deal with their traumatizing anti-Semitic experience—-and its significance for feminism.
Women in the Israeli Army
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Shuli Eshel’s documentary "TO BE A WOMAN SOLDIER" shows what Israeli women really do in the army: serve coffee, not their country. An interview by Susan Weidman Schneider.
Voice from the Sweatshop
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From the unpublished autobiography of the early 20th century radical.
Working Daughters
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Jewish immigrant women and their parents viewed their jobs as a rite-of-passage into adulthood, and so did their parents.
The Daughter that Fearing Fathers
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You who brood on raping Sabine women, who dream of ramming rods blood-full and juicy into warm soft unawakened maidens, graceful, slim, stain-barked young birch trees or large-eyed nervous-nostriled velvet... Read more »
No More Rachels
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What if there were no more Rachels Striding, graceful and confident, to the well? Each woman would cast her eyes down When a man looked at her And she would... Read more »
Nidah (The Menstruant)
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I cannot enter the sanctuary Or share the communal supper. Everything on which I sit is unclean, And my touch makes any man impure Until the evening. I cannot enter... Read more »
The Jewish Stake in Abortion Rights
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Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Lines of Communication
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Dear LILITH: As Jewish women with a deep commitment to Jewish-Christian dialogue, we read with interest your articles in Issue #7 by Judith Plaskow and Annette Daum. As Jews, we... Read more »
