Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from September 2004

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from September 2004

Aliyah in the lives of North African Jewish widows: realization of a dream or solution to a problem?
September 22, 2004... Widowhood and Migration In traditional societies, women who had been integrally involved in communal activity and held a measure of status via their husbands were often marginalized almost immediately upon becoming widowed. Though they may...

Looking forward and backward: modern and traditional gender patterns among Yemenite immigrant women in a moshav.
September 22, 2004... Introduction Immigration of Jews from Yemen to Palestine increased during the early twentieth century. The Yemenites came to escape economic and political persecution under Turkish rule (which lasted in Yemen until after World War I) as...

Non-mainstream education, limited mobility, and the second generation of Moroccan immigrant women: the case of the kindergarten teacher's assistant.
September 22, 2004... "What do you do?" I asked Miriam, a forty-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant woman in Israel. "I am in education." "Are you a teacher?" "No," she answered. "Are you a principal in a school?" "No. I am a...

Ethiopian Jewish women: trends and transformations in the context of transnational change.
September 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The Ethiopian Jewish family is undergoing dramatic changes in Israel as a result of migration. These changes are so wide-ranging that a single academic article cannot do justice to the minutiae of transformations that are...

Providers, caregivers, and sluts: women with a Russian accent in Israel.
September 22, 2004... Introduction After the tall of state socialism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, over 1.7 million Jews left the former Soviet Union (FSU) for Israel, the U.S., and other destinations in the West. Although this recent wave of Jewish...

Journey to the Promised Land: how I became an African-American Jew rather than a Jewish African American.
September 22, 2004... My journey to Judaism was not easy. In fact, it was fraught with peril all along the way. Yet there were those who helped me eventually get there--my Jewish Underground Railroad. The story of why and how I became a Jew is complex, an...

Memories of an intercultural education 1955-1957.
September 22, 2004... In the autumn of 1955, my fifth-grade public-school class in New York City was hard at work on the social studies unit that would carry us through the school year. It was entitled "People of Many Lands," and our textbook began something like...

More than Chicken Chow Mein.
September 22, 2004... Growing up I was always told, "Well, Jews do love Chinese food, after all!" This, after the speaker had gazed into my eyes with furrowed brow, asked me where I was from, and reeled from the initial shock of my answer: "My mother is Jewish, and...

Better off than you would have been: feminist legacies for transnational adoptive families in the Jewish community.
September 22, 2004... My mother, Helen Radin, a first-generation American from a family of European Jews (many of whom died in the Holocaust), moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the late 1950s. When her husband left--leaving half the furniture, the...

Am I my sister's keeper?
September 22, 2004... Thinking about Jewish feminists, I pondered what question might be food for the thoughts I wish to stir. The Torah called out to me to use words of wisdom from the source of the Jewish people, and there it was words said by a man that stirred...

A voice from within: a challenge for the conservative Jewish movement and its gay/lesbian activists.
September 22, 2004... Racing up to me from behind, a woman I have known for years taps me on the shoulder as I walk down the aisle with my mother to our regular seats in shul. It is the year 2000. I am dressed in the finest I can afford on my own--dress shirt,...

Radical feminists--no Jews need apply.
September 22, 2004... The recent publication of This Bridge We Call Home: Visions for Radical Transformation, (1) a follow-up volume to This Bridge Called My Back, (2) reopened a wound for me. Instead of our book helping the contributors to bond despite deep...

Engaging Jewish feminist diversity issues: seven concepts and several questions.
September 22, 2004... In many non-Orthodox U.S. congregations today, Jewish children grow up relatively unaware of the traditional separation between men's and women's roles in Judaism. This fact alone stands as quiet testimony to the changes produced by a...

Is egalitarianism heresy? Rethinking gender on the margins of Judaism. *.
September 22, 2004... "... every church is orthodox to itself." John Locke, "A Letter on Tolerance" "In the case of a conflict between respect for human dignity and a rabbinic law, one must violate the law even if it involves the performance of a positive...

Wise women on laughter and re-membering.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... "and she laughs unto the end of days" (Prov. 31:25) In the opening scene of Parashat Vayera (Gen. 18:9-15), Sarah first hears that she will finally, at the age of ninety, bear a child. The passage is a classic example of a literary...

Rebecca and Esau.(Four Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... REBECCA AND ESAU Now Isaac loved Esau, because the hunt was in his mouth; but Rebecca loves Jacob. (Genesis 25:28) After he slithered up to my Sabbath candles, Grinning, Chuckling, And blew them out, I...

Dinah's Candle.(Four Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... DINAH'S CANDLE Afterwards she [Leah] gave birth to a daughter; and she named her Dinah. (Genesis 30:21) I love all my children. But my youngest, my only daughter, whom I treasure, Dinah, my quiet little girl, Is...

Lullaby For Moses.(Four Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... LULLABY FOR MOSES When she [Yocheved] couldn't hide him any longer, she took an ark made of papyrus for him, and lined it with clay and pitch; she placed the child inside and put it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. (Exodus 2:3)...

From Me, Leah, To You, Rachel, My Sister.(Four Poems)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... FROM ME, LEAH, TO YOU, RACHEL, MY SISTER But she [Leah] said to her [Rachel], "Is it such a small thing that you have taken away my husband, that you would take my son's mandrakes as well?" Then Rachel answered, "Then let him [Jacob] lie...

The painted word: Jewish women's book art.(Resident Artist)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... The combination of visual imagery and printed or painted words constitutes a crossing of aesthetic borders that figures in much important artwork being done by contemporary Jewish women artists. Some of the work presented herein fits into...

Carole B. Balin to Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Carole B. Balin To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000 In To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia, Carole Balin explores the work and the experience of...

Esther Schely-Newman Our Lives Are But Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Esther Schely-Newman Our Lives Are But Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002 Our Lives Are But Stories is the biography of a generation of Jewish Tunisian women whose central life event...

Lena Jedwab Rozenberg Girl With Two Landscapes: the Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lena Jedwab Rozenberg Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945 Translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld New York: Homes and Meier, 2002 The genre of wartime diaries is well known in modern literature, and...

Yulie Cohen Gerstel, Director "My Terrorist".(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2004... Yulie Cohen Gerstel, Director "My Terrorist" 2002.58 minutes. I was watching Yulie Gerstel's video "'My Terrorist" when my son came in to tell me that another suicide bomb had just killed some twenty men, women, and children in a Haifa...