Winter 2000-2001
Sex and shame in a different era: Jewish women who relinquished their babies for adoption. Barbra Streisand is a metaphor. Teen bat mitzvah in a nursing home. Jewish feminists rally for tolerance in Warsaw.
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The Myth of La Streisand
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Have you ever been told you look just like Barbara Streisand? She's been the metaphor for so many things Jewish and female. As she retires, a scholar/fan reflects on the myth.
Andrea Adds
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Five years after my mother and grandmother sat together in that sunny garden, I sat in the audience as my mother, who was being honored as the Moseley Scholar of the... Read more »
Women with Ph.D.’s and Their Mothers
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Which is more valued: a clean house or a completed dissertation? The balabusta or the professor? Two generations of women discuss the tensions.
Jewish Chicken Soup
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It is not any soup it is a deep and dark mystical connection boiling pots while ancient hands read tarot and Kabalah ... Read more »
“God Has Many Messengers”
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A wise-for-her-age 13-year-old holds her bat mitzvah in a nursing home, where the elders help her deal with loss and change. She has some great ideas for them, too.
Warsaw Diary: Democracy in the Balance
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Warsaw is seeing a backlash of anti-Semitism and anti-feminism. Here, meet some of the outspoken Jewish women leading the charge for tolerance.
“Get Rid of the Baby. Let’s Go Home.”
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Plus...Oregon’s new legislation on "open adoption" and an update from Roseanne Barr on reuniting with the baby she gave up
Secrets and Lies: The ”Out-of-Wedlock” Son Finds Them Out
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The author’s history is a tangled web. After years of lies, he discovers he is the child of his mother’s love affair, adopted- not conceived- by the man who raised... Read more »
The “Illegitimate” Daughter Tells Her Birth Mother’s Story
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The woman who gave birth to me did so in a very different age. lt was the 1960s, and my arrival was what would now be called an out-of-wedlock birth. At... Read more »
Sex Workers Unite!
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Julia Query and I are wandering through a brick housing complex built by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in Manhattan. Query, who needs a set of keys to get into... Read more »
What A Few Can Do
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In a year when every vote counted, there were at least 800 new voters registered thanks to the living-room efforts of a handful of Jewish women in New York City.... Read more »
A Step Toward Freedom?
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Amid political upheaval in Peru, efforts to free American journalist and activist Lori Berenson from a Peruvian prison may have taken a small step forward this season. A Supreme Military Council of... Read more »
Challenging Incumbents
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It was a banner year for Jewish women political candidates, who in large numbers took on incumbents in Congress, though with mixed results. In a bid for Senate, Michigan Democratic... Read more »
Protesting Dr. Laura’s Bias
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Attempts to foil Laura Schlessinger’s anti-gay rhetoric and her new TV show this fall took a Jewish turn in large part thanks to the efforts of Robin Tyler, the national protest... Read more »
Marching Against Moma
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The New York City Labor Day parade is a major family event. Kids running everywhere dripping ice cream. People carrying banners, balloons and flags. Lots of flags, bearing old familiar initials:... Read more »
Readers Respond
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Wild About Laura What’s wrong with “Dr. Laura” is not, as Sarah Blustain asserts, that she is “promoting the agenda of the Christian Right” (“The Stealth Politics of Laura Schlessinger,”... Read more »
