Bridges: a Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends
Volume 7 Number 1

Sephardi and Mizrahi Women Write About Their Lives

From the Editors

Letters and Responses

Introduction
Debra Crespin and Sarah Jacobus

Essay
My Cousin the Nun
an essay by Rena Varon Down
Sephardic Lesbian at the Bar Mitzvah Games
by Sherri Cassuto
Reports from the First Feminist Mizrahi Conference
Shoshana Madmoni and Loolwa Khazzoom

Fiction
Searching for Fritada
a story by Shoshana Simons
Skirmish in the Desert
a story by Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
My Mother's Wedding
a story by Rita Arditti

Memior
Survivors and Pieces of Glass
a memoir by Miriam Israel Moses
Memories of Cochin Jew Town
by Ruby Daniel

Ladino Proverbs

Bene Israel Cradle Ceremony
by Flora Samuel
Interview
What is of Importance: An Interview
Alice Haya Kinberg
Ilana Eliya
an interview by Haya Shalom
Myth: A Novel Excerpt
Ruth Knafo Setton

Poetry
Carol Dine
Leah Zazulyer
Nikki Stiller
Forty Nameless Poems
poetry by Ruth Behar
Star of the Harem
a poem by Brenda Serotte
Grandma Wasina's Laundry Day
poem by Netta Blatt
from Crossing the Bridges of Sighs
a poem by Brenda Serotte

Book Revew
La Bobe
by Sabina Berman
reviewed by Nancy Ross
Sephardic American Voices: 200 years of a Literary Legacy
book Review by Rachel Amado Bortnick

Film Review
A Healthy Baby Girl
by Judith Helfand
reviewed by Sally Sheklow

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