Ruth Efroni, translated by Ilana Kurshan
…my clicker goes wild– click, click, click, click…. Ruth Efroni is an Israeli writer whose first book, Year of the Fox: Notes from the Diary of an Almost Proper Woman,…
Fiction: That Dad with White Socks
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For My Great-Grandfather: A Message Long Overdue
by Maxine Kumin
…with the praying shawl and the pair of little leather praying boxes— Great-Grandfather, old blue-eyed fox of foxes, I have three pages of you. That is all. 1895. A three-page…
Eighteen Books Lilith Loved This Year
Gwen Tucker
…an enlightening read.” The Jews of Summer by Sandra Fox and Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen Mills In Lilith’s Summer issue, Chanel Dubofsky explored two powerful books…
Memorializing Feminist Mentors
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…tone, diction and pacing — sounding like that of few other poets.” Margalit Fox in The New York Times Joyce Antler remembers Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012) “Firestone would publish one of…
A Woman’s View of Circumcision
by Elana Maryles Sztokman
…Santa Monica woman who submitted a similar proposal for her city but then withdrew it, stated this entire position with some strange ideas and overt hostility. She reportedly told Fox…
Wrestling with the Past
by Janice Simsohn
…swimming pool at Fox Hill Country Club.” Max, the ex-husband, is a German-American, Nazi progeny, and Kirshenbaum draws heavy-handed parallels between the inevitable perversions of their marriage and those of…
The Stories We Tell
Rebecca Honig Friedman
…the stories they love. From Rabbi Sharon Brous, Founder/Senior Rabbi of IKAR, a congregation in Los Angeles: “Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge [by Mem Fox] is one of the most beautiful…
“Let My Husband Die”
by Ann Moliver Ruben
…for basic training. I cried at work. I cried at home. I missed him. Finally I earned a one-week vacation as a secretary at Twentieth Century Fox and his parents…
Learning French
fiction by Roberta Israeloff
…mother and Birdie in the back. Dad up front with Bernie, who was driving. Birdie, who was always cold, was wearing her fox coat with the satin lining, and I…
Protest CCAR Arizona Convention
by Reena Sigman Friedman
…through the boycott of non-ratified states….” The six signatories of this statement were Rabbis Sally Priesand; Karen Fox, of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues; Laura Geller, Director of…