Volume 8 Numbers 1 and 2

Double Issue: Confronting Text and Tradition

CONFRONTING TEXT AND TRADITION Introduction The Art and Spirituality of HelÀne Aylon essay by Alison Gass A Conversation between HelÀne Aylon and Rabbi Rolando Matalon Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament by Alicia Ostriker The Strangers Perspective essay and midrashim by Thistle Parker-Hartog A yidishe bas mitsve essay by Ellen Cassedy Unkosher short story by Elissa Goldberg POETRY Bonnie Lyons Carol Barrett Leah Berger Malca Litovitz Tamir Anne Silver Vicki Angel Muriel Moulton Ellen Bass tova Sherry Gorelick Jacqueline Karp Gendre Elaine Terranova Rachel Zucker REVIEWS Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-create the World's First Woman edited by Enid Dame, Lilly Rivlin, Henny Wenkart reviewed by Norma Rosen Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics by Rachel Adler reviewed by Dawn Robinson Rose Judaism Since Gender edited by Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt reviewed by Rabbi Gail Labovitz Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating by Naomi Graetz reviewed by Alana Suskin A Bride for My Father short story by Farideh Dayanim Goldin

ART Tania Kravath Shlomit Segal Interview with Nora Stejilevich by Monica Szurmuk One Single Countless Death novel excerpt by Nora Stejilevich Uncharted Territory: Generating Opposition to Torture in Israel by Jessica Montell The Sudden Jew essay by Nina Jo Smith JEWISH WOMEN AND MULTICULTURALISM Crosscurrents of Jewish Women in a Journey Toward Healing essay by Penny Rosenwasser and Anna Gatmon The Way Home a film by Shakti Butler reviewed by Marla Brettschneider Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky and Susannah Heschel reviewed by Arlene Stein The Past as Prologue short story by Erica Lehrer Writing In Yiddish Today by Donna Patt Gallers Our Gift of Touch by Joan Nestle Yiddish translation by Hinde Burstin Leave Me Signs poems by Helena Lipstadt reviewed by Laura Markowitz Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht Marrow and Other Stories by Nora Gold reviewed by Esther Fuchs Cornerstones of Peace: Jewish Identity Politics and Democratic Theory by Marla Brettschneider reviewed by Gordon Fellman Selected Books Received Contributor Notes Submission guidelines

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