Unbelievable! Teen girls who like their bodies? After having her own baby, an egg donor revisits her choice. Eighteen authors confess to being outcasts.
Table of contents Get the issueLilith's annual Jewish feminist look at books for young readers
These Jewish lesbian academic activists resist wedded coupledom, for very good reasons.
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari’s densely informative text Women in Israel: A State of their Own (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) is based on the author’s “Report on the State of Israel Concerning... Read more »
Bonjour. Monsieur!” is how the sweet-eyed, frizzy haired protagonist of this new Israeli film greets his Hebrew-speaking grandfather, entering the home that, as its inhabitants arrive, seems more like a circus... Read more »
Savyon Liebrecht, the acclaimed Israeli fiction writer, recently visited Boston, where she was the quiet star of a reception given by the Israeli Consulate and, the next day, a speaker at... Read more »
It would be written on sand, or on a hand colored photo graph of a country with nobody waiting with guns, no thatched roofs on fire, no hiding in trees... Read more »
Many memories were woven together to tell The Dog of Knots, a story of a dog, a little girl, and her friends during the Yom Kippur War The year I... Read more »
An outsider’s observation: Was Egypt really so bad for us strangers? After all, it was in Egypt where a psychic Jewish slave, betrayed and abandoned by his own Jewish brothers,... Read more »
All my life I have felt like an outsider, and it is clearly one of the motivations that pushes me to write. A year after I got married I took... Read more »
Outsider experiences? The question hits home so hard that I don’t know where to start. I am an American Jew, writing in French and living in Nice. I guess my... Read more »
I’m leaving my world of motherhood and children. My busy, safe, laughter-filled, tear-stained, milk-spilling world, to have dinner at Rutgers University and meet my favorite author. Dr. Chaim Potok. My... Read more »
I wanted so many things but more than anything I wantedto write.If only I could write.Dayenu.My parents taught me words in Russian, French,German, English.I added words of my own. In... Read more »
When I moved to Atlanta in my mid-20s, I got a sweet surprise. Up north, I had always had plenty in common with the women around me, Jewish and otherwise.... Read more »
I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx. Although I was hardly a “stranger in the land of Egypt,” I often felt like an outsider. At P.S. 114... Read more »
As a boy in the 1950s, my life had more than a passing resemblance to the Norman Rockwell covers of the Saturday Evening Post. White, middle-class, Christian, a member of... Read more »
So I wasn’t like the other kids. I always thought it was because we were Jewish. That was the usual excuse: we don’t eat lobster because… we’re Jewish. We don’t... Read more »
My mother died when I was in high school. I felt like an outsider because none of my friends had experienced death up close. We were carefree teenagers; death was... Read more »
I was born into a family who, during the Second World War, had indeed become “strangers” in the land of France. After the war, my family returned to France, as... Read more »
I was lucky. I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and attended a small all-girls Hebrew day school, where the teachers valued their students. I never saw myself as... Read more »
As a kid, I often felt different. I had good friends, a loving family, and a Jewish community in Allentown, Pennsylvania. But back in 1968, having parents with gray hair... Read more »
One cold afternoon when I was eleven, my mother met me in our lobby—I remember the cozy heat—and showed me a newspaper. My father’s book was number one on the... Read more »
Nothing in my early life could have prepared me for what it is like to be a Jew living in the Midwest, in an endless expanse of Christianity. Remember the... Read more »
If our theme is Writing from the Outside, I’m your poster child. My first book novelized my escape from Hitler’s Vienna and a childhood in England, living in, as the... Read more »
What this Jewish summer camp offers--common showers--brings unintended lessons, including the body-equalizing revelations most women experience only in a Loehmann's dressing room. And Joan Jacobs Brumberg talks to Ilana Kramer about female appearance and anxiety.
She just gave birth to her own child. Now a Jewish woman who years ago donated her eggs to an infertile couple looks back on her extraordinary choice.
MORE ABOUT MOMMIES On the problems of mothers [“Mommy Wars,” Summer 2004]. I am in exactly this position—a professional woman (with a Ph.D.), unemployed because I followed my husband to... Read more »
