BRIDGES: a Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends
Volume 7 Number 2

Secular Traditions of Jewish Atheists and Activists and Other Writings

The memory of their lives inspires us...
Cypress, Renée Epelbaum, Clara Frazer, Bella Abzug, Ilana Chernobroda

Essays
The Heathen Wing: Reflections on Secular Jewish Traditions
Lori Ginzberg
Miles to go before we sleep: Jewish Feminists Talk About the Promise Keepers
Liora Moriel and Alana Suskin
I'd Give Anything to be Able to Sing; "Without Song"
Rita Falbel, essay and poem
The Poet as Witness
"Sunset in Hebrew and Khmer""Unexpected Guest at the Wedding"
Willa Schneberg, essay and poetry

Poetry
Photograph
Melisa Cahnmann
The Time When I Bought..
Rita Karman
Lilith and the Parisian Man
Colleen Umbogy McKee
Wedding Night
Rebecca Schwartz
Working Class Jewish Blues
Leah Thorn
Heir's Loom
Herman Asarnow
How to tell you're sisters...
Jessica Weissman
The Trouble with Informers
Judith Werner
Genealogy
Joan Annsfire
The Only Jew
Deborah Bacharach
Sestina for My Family
Deborah Bacharach
Plummer Park
Rowena Silver

Yiddish Literature In Translation
Avremelekh/Little Abrahams
short story by Rokhl Brokhes
introduced by Frieda Forman
translated by Frieda Forman and Ethel Raicus
drawings by Selma Waldman

Short Stories
Farmer Girls
Margo Rabb
My Great Grandmother's Story
Faith Jones

Israeli Issues
Alternative Israeli Independence Day
Gila Svirsky
Keshet: The Mizrakhi Democractic Rainbow
essay by Henriette Dahan-Dalev
Single Mothers and "Sweeties": Gender Related Problems of Russian-Speaking Women in Israel
essay by Larissa Remennick
Ribcage: Israeli Women's Fiction edited by Carol Diament and Lily Rattok
New Women's Writing from Israel edited by Risa Domb
Reviewed by Esther Fuchs

Reviews
Between Jesus and the Market:The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America
by Linda Kintz
Reviewed by Liora Moriel
Life on the Line by Faye Wattleton
Reviewed by Sarah Wetherson
Di froyen/Women and Yiddish: Tribute to the Past and Directions for the Future
Reviewed by Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man
by Daniel Boyarin
Reviewed by Ruth Abrams
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition
by Rebecca Alpert
Reviewed by Joanne Cohen
Beyond the Pale
A Novel by Elana Dykewomon
Reviewed by Joanne Cohen
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
edited by Rachel Josefowitz Siegel and Ellen Cole
Reviewed by Naomi Graetz

Art Gallery
Francia: Personal Visions Art and History
MeetHommage to the Venetian Jews
Women Survivors
Rabbi Debra Cantor: New Rabbinic Visions

Selected Books Received

Community Bulletin Board

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