Why Is This Chair Different From All Other Chairs?
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A Londoner’s reflections on being Jewish, female and … unmarried.
Spring 1999
The mohel is a woman! Radical Jewish daughters, from the Spanish Civil War to the offspring of 60’s activists. Dieting to win a mother’s love.
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Out of the Silence, Out of the FlamesTwo daughters tell Passover stories of personal exodus.
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The Yoke
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Somebody’s yoke around my neck—how can I think about God nowand what a kvetch he became in Genesis? He walked there calling for Adam.Then the verses fell down like a... Read more »
Fighting Fascism
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Spanish Civil War. Lincoln Brigade. Guernica. The touchstones for generations of left-wing activist men. Sixty years after the fall of the Spanish Republic, we hear about the gutsy Jewish women who defied America in defense of democracy.
When Our Parents Neglected Us to Save the World…
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Radical Sixties parents spawn ideological Nineties daughter. Beyond anti-war activism and feminist consciousness-raising, what else did their legacy include? Plus Red Diapers, reviewed by Eleanor Bader.
Watching the Fire
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My 29-year-old mother was smuggled out of the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto one month before its obliteration. She had lived within the city all her life and inside the Ghetto since... Read more »
The Morning My Father Met Ernest Hemingway on the Way to the Promised Land
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The Haggadah tells us that five second-century rabbis stayed up all night retelling the story of the Exodus from Egypt. They must have been fine, natural-born storytellers because when my father,... Read more »
God No. 2
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My God who is the bodies of all the men I’ve lovedthe breasts I could not suck enoughwho is the cat’s bodywith the eyelashes of a dolland the hardness of... Read more »
When the Mohel is a Woman
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As an ancient, boys-only rite of passage moves into the modern era, we have to wonder: What would Sigmund Freud have to say?
First Feminist Hebrew Poet
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Two poems are reprinted by Rachel Morfurgo (1790-1871), who was the first modem female (and feminist) Hebrew poet and lived in Trieste, Italy. She wrote when she couldn’t sleep at... Read more »
Women in Iran: Since Khatami
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Erela Daor writes on the lives of women since the May 1997 election of Muhammad Khatami as president of Iran. (He was elected with a mandate for liberalization by an... Read more »
“Is Marriage A Prerequisite For Womanhood?”
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“On Single Women in the Palestinian Community in Jaffa,” by Amalia Saar, explicates the status of women who are referred to as banat (those who remain girls), signifying—at least officially—that... Read more »
“The Concrete Ceiling; Women In Israeli Politics”
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“The Concrete Ceiling; Women In Israeli Politics” by Sylvia Bijawi cites the third Knesset, elected in 1955, as the zenith for women’s participation, with 12 female Members. This 10% has... Read more »
Letters
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Woman: ‘A Constant Giver’ I can’t get over the wasted energy that went into the article “Sexing the Answering Machine” [Spring 1997]. Many forms of languages are separated into male... Read more »
