Erika Dreifus
…say: Amen. Erika Dreifus writes poetry and prose in New York. Visit her online at www.erikadreifus.com and follow her on Twitter @ErikaDreifus, where she comments on “matters bookish and/or Jewish.”…
Kaddish for My Uterus
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Polar Region
fiction by Erika Dreifus
…it?” Erika Dreifus teaches expository and creative writing at the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, MA. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Copperfield Review, Facets, Oregon English Journal,…
The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature
compiled by Naomi Danis
…writing and the conflicting images of powerful/powerless mothers that inhabit it are Erika Duncan’s “The Hungry Jewish Mother” and “Mothers and Daughters: Another Minority Group,” by Natalie M. Rosinsky. In…
Now Read These Poems
by Wendy Wisner
As a poet and a mother to a young child, I’m always looking to read the works of other “poet-moms.” So I was thrilled to delve into Erika Meitner’s second…
Try This: A Health Library in the Mikveh…
by Nechama Liss-Levinson
…Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis). On the topic of domestic violence. secular books such as The Verbally…
My Family’s Bootleg Contraception Operation
Nina Siegal
…is so vague and broad, explained Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, when she was interviewed on NPR, that it could “encompass any device used…
Art and Aid: an Interview with Margot Spindelman
Eleanor J. Bader
…Michael Davis’ black-and-white drawings show his gorgeous touch; Christina Massey’s pieces are surprising intersections of paint, collage and thread; and Jada Fabrizio’s work is about planetary degradation and feels both ominous and…
Bat Mitzvah
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…is a WHOLE exceptional day together. A solution in search of a problem. Bat Mitzvah / Bar Mitzvah Fall 1994 by Judy Davis A family therapist—-the reigning expert on this…
Link Roundup: Summer Reading Digest, Part I
Jill Finkelstein
…required by these roles, they may be viewed as inappropriate or presumptuous.” [EurekAlert!] Actress Geena Davis, along with US Senator Kay Hagan and US Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, has introduced a…
Female and Jewish in Iran—Three Views
by Sarah Blustain
…overwrought, and its message of universal love triumpliing over hate simplistic. Yet for all those distractions, Louise Domaratius’s book makes for a remarkably engaging read. The story follows Celia Davis,…