Winter/Spring 1985

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An entirely new way to see the links between feminism and Judaism: Lilith's Bima (platform) section.

Happening

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CONFERENCES “The Jewish Woman’s Spirituality Convocation” is the title of a seven-day meeting to be held June 16-23, 1985, hosted by Oregon Jewish Women. This will be an opportunity for... Read more »

Cherries From the War

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Blonde and perfumed is my neighbor and her husband is a colonel.She is not to blame.I lead her through the clutter of children and out to the patio.“Come, have some... Read more »

Rivkah the Whore, The Spring After

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I don’t want your grushneither silver nor goldonly heroin can buy my dreams chasing my shadow in the darkgrowing tan in my long white gowngrowing thin, my hair bleached the... Read more »

The Messenger

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"All Jews are responsible for one another"—but how do we define the boundaries between responsibility and guilt?

Yosepha and Bas Mitzvah

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Parental favoritism, sibling rivalry and revenge—-the stuff of Biblical legends—-in a farm family in modern Israel.

The Free Thinkers

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The amateur marriage-brokers don’t know what they’re up against when they plot a match for Ida.

From Mame-Loshn/ Mother Tongue

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I. Di rayze aheym/ The journey home 1. Der fentster/ The windowShe looks out the window.All is present.The shadows of... Read more »

The Miracle of Dora Wakin’s Art

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Unexpected consequences when a maturing artist turns from universal to Jewish themes.

Deeds of Love and Rage

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In the fallout from the parents’ ruptured marriage, a mother and daughter preparing for Shabbat discover that their relationship too has been altered.

Malka the Fat Girl and Coming Back to Middlebury

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A shtetl girl’s struggle to find self-worth in a family and a tradition that both reject her.

Of Chilblains and Rotten Rutabagas

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A chapter from a novel-in-progress set mainly during World War II, by the author of Small Changes, Braided Lives and Vida.

Murder in Syria

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Terror gripped the 5,000 Jews of Syria in the wake of the unsolved brutal murder and mutilation of a pregnant Jewish woman and her two small children in Aleppo. On... Read more »

Jewish Community Urged to Deal with Wife Abuse

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A well-known rabbi recently announced from the pulpit that all were welcome in his congregation—”except wife beaters.” A survey among New York rabbis found that while nearly all denied first-hand... Read more »

B’nai B’rith Women Fight Dissolution

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B’nai B’rith Women president, Beverly Davis, expressed her firm opposition to a resolution passed by B’nai B’rith International September 4 calling for a plan to open the BBI membership to... Read more »

“Dialogue” Sparks Action

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As an outgrowth of the 1984 American Jewish Congress America-Israel Dialogue, “Woman as Jew, Jew as Woman: An Urgent Inquiry,” the AJCongress has formed a National Commission on Women’s Equality.... Read more »

Ottawa Jewish Women’s Network

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The Ottawa Jewish Women’s Network which grew out of a conference on Women and Judaism was held in November 1983. The conference was the first of its kind held in... Read more »

Fonda Visits Nudel

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Ida Nudel, the Jewish refusnik who has been denied an exit visa to emigrate to Israel since 1972, celebrated her 53rd birthday in April in her exile city of Bendery,... Read more »

Women Enter Conservative Rabbinical School

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A new era dawned for the Conservative movement—and the American Jewish community—this fall, as the first women Rabbinical School students entered classes at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the... Read more »

Lines Of Communication

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Dear LILITH:At the urging of the Attorney-General of Ontario (because he knows we get things done!) B’nai B’rith Women of Canada has undertaken a campaign to raise Canadian awareness re... Read more »

From the Editor

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NERVOUS ABOUT NAIROBI As preparations for the UN “end-decade” conference on women reach their final stages, Jewish women around the world are responding with a mixture of hopefulness, confusion and... Read more »