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…“King Solomon’s Knife: A Feminist Midrash about Adoption,” by Diane Cole; fiction by Erika Dreifus about a social worker visiting a woman who wants to adopt, and heartfelt passionate discussions…

A Poem for Vayishlach (“Dinah Speaks”)

…www.erikadreifus.com and follow her on Twitter @ErikaDreifus, where she comments on “matters bookish and/or Jewish.” The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not…

Mentoring Matters

…to trespass against the solitudes they wish to keep.” Erika Meitner, a firstgeneration Jewish American poet who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies, learns that in order to take…

Happening

…from Yiddish and Hebrew, and prose by writers Susan Aizenberg, Karen Alkalay-Gut, Celia Dropkin, Marcia Falk, Marilyn Hacker, Kathryn Hellerstein, Nany Himel, Lisa Katz, Berta Kling, Maxine Kumin, Erika Meitner,…

The Poetics of Dislocation

…not. The Next Country is a quiet beauty of a book. Erika Meitner is author of Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, and an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech….

Women to Watch During the Next 18 Years

…of achieving. ERIKA MARCUS: There is something hopeful in young progressive women coming together and saying both Judaism and feminism are important. We will see a change in the face…

The Speaker Lineup for This Major Conference Is All Women

…present are traversed through writing, and the presenters are Alicia Ostriker, Ilana Kurshan, Erika Meitner, Rachel Kadish and Deborah Lipstadt. The final decision to include these writers was based on…

What A Few Can Do

…J-Vote was conceived by twenty-something Erika Katske and a few friends because of their “despair about all of the apathy we were seeing around us.” “A lot of Jews have…