Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from September 22 2003

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from September 22 2003

Phyllis Chesler and Rivka Haut (eds.) Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2003. 429 pp. Women of the Wall (WOW), a group formed to hold women-only public prayer services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, is one of the more controversial outgrowths of the twentieth-century...

The Feminization of Poverty.
September 22, 2003... 11th Annual Conference on Women's and Gender Studies and Feminist Theories, Tel Aviv University The Eleventh Annual Conference on Women's and Gender Studies and Feminist Theories, held in February 2003 at Tel Aviv University, had as its...

Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin (eds.) Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2002.324 pp. "Our lives as Palestinians... are very complex and worthy of sophisticated critical thinking," writes Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (p. 190) in her contribution to this multivocal work. She has...

Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.) The New Hebrew Women: Women in the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement from a Gender Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jerusalem: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 2002. 457 pp. For over forty years, historiographers around the world have been engaged in serious, probing study of the place of women in the history of nations. Questions like that raised by the...

Renee Levine Melammed (ed.) "Lift Up Your Voice": Women's Voices and Feminist Interpretation in Jewish Studies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Tel Aviv: Yedioth Aharonoth, 2001. 205 pp. This book, the product of a conference held at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, (1) not only offers its readers the opportunity to read the papers given at an interesting and...

Tamar El-Or Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 331 pp. Several months ago I attended a discussion at my university that dealt with the education and personal identity of modern Orthodox young women in Israel. Chairing the meeting was a...

Esther Fuchs Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Bible as a Woman.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... JSOT Supplement Series, 310, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 2000, 244 pp While the notion of the patriarchal bias of the Bible is a given in feminist criticism as well as in much of academic biblical studies today, Esther Fuchs goes...

Reader response: Beruriah's final lesson.
September 22, 2003... In the last issue of Nashim (no. 5, 2002), Brenda Socachevsky Bacon raised the question: "How Shall We Tell the Story of Beruriah's End?" She writes: The learning of Beruriah, the wife of Rabbi Meir, has turned her into a role...

The high priest: face * inner face: a dance essay.
September 22, 2003... The images in the following pages are drawn from a video dance comprising two films, each about five minutes long, shown simultaneously on adjacent screens. They were filmed in November 2002 in the caverns of the Bell Cave in Belt Govrin,...

Three Israeli artists respond to war.
September 22, 2003... The following pages present artwork and excerpts from interviews with three women artists who live in Israel and have seen their children serve in the military, and whose work addresses the issue of war. I participated in all three...

Ammunition.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... AMMUNITION My mother was stuffing me with kasha, digging deep inside chickens for iron rich, baby eggs, retrieved like nuggets of gold, to "fix me up," as she would say, "protect me" from the ravages of...

Hiding at Noon.(Two Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... HIDING AT NOON I am hiding in my own skin Waiting inside my voice For the noon of my being To chime on Afternoon's clock. Everything is brightest at noon In the day's new sunlight The color of joy is...

Lot's Wife.(Two Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... LOT'S WIFE She turns gazing at catastrophe seeing the forbidden, the truly terrible. We all remember the story. She turns in longing and is transformed into the salt of her tears. Pillar of...

Israel, a palace in space: a gendered re-vision of territoriality.
September 22, 2003... Throughout thousands of years of exile and return, the Jewish People has been engaged with the sacredness of space and time. Deep cultural structures connect the Jewish People to our homeland, but at the same time, absent from the holy places...

When a feminist struggle becomes a symbol of the agenda as a whole: the example of women in the military *.
September 22, 2003... 1. Introduction In March 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution--the ERA-passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 84 to 8. Two thirds of the states were then expected to ratify the ERA in order to complete the...

Religious women fighters in Israel's war of independence: a new gender perception, or a passing episode?
September 22, 2003... We, the religious pioneer movement, have brought about a revolution in the status of women in traditional religious society, without compromising traditional Jewish morality within our society-and of that we are proud. We are...

"Mothers birth the nation": the social construction of zionist motherhood in wartime in Israeli parents' manuals (1).
September 22, 2003... Who is a proper Zionist child? And who is a proper Zionist mother? These questions have been an inherent part of the subtext of the Israeli nation-building process from the start. To consider them here, we will employ a textual field which,...

Loyalty, belonging, and their discontents: women in the public sphere in Jewish and Palestinian cultural discourse.
September 22, 2003... Women's Issues in Times of Public Struggle In societies that perceive themselves as enmeshed in national struggle, the place of female figures who make it into the public sphere--such as political activists, members of women's...

Women as victims of war: the British conquest (1917) and the blight of prostitution in the Holy City.
September 22, 2003... Dr. Weizmann informs us of the sad fact that due to the difficult conditions in the Land of Israel, prostitution and drunkenness have become widespread in Jerusalem. In Jerusalem alone there are five hundred Jewish prostitutes...

Symposium: women, war, and peace in Jewish and Middle East contexts.
September 22, 2003... FOREWORD Alice Shalvi, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies When I first offered to serve as guest editor of an issue of Nashim dedicated to the topic of War and Peace I was confident that we should have no difficulty in enlisting...

To our readers.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... With God's help, I believe this will the last time that we will be asking our readers' forbearance for the tardy appearance of an issue. After five years of exciting but perilous journeying as an independent venture of the Schechter Institute...

In memoriam--Dafna Izraeli.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... The late Dafna Izraeli, who died an untimely death of cancer on February 21, 2003, was a pioneering and primary researcher of women-related issues in Israel. She was a founder of women's studies at Bar Ilan University, a mentor to students and...