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Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.
Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their unique perspectives have remained largely invisible. Through poetry and personal essays, Joining the Sisterhood sheds light on the lives of these young women as they search for both personal and universal truths. By writing about their thoughts and experiences, the women in this anthology join the sisterhood of women who work toward justice in their homes, synagogues, and communities.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Ruach: Ourselves in Relation to Others and the Environment
1. Bais Yaakov Girl (essay)
Eve Rosenbaum
2. Questions (poem)
Melanie Leitner
3. Ground Contemplation Prayer (essay)
Leah Berger
4. Singing Praises (essay)
Shoshana M. Friedman
5. God Lives in the Himalayas (essay)
Leanne Lieberman
6. Yom Kippur in Ecuador (Me and the Virgin) (poem)
Aleza Eve Kaufman Summit
7. Where the Mountain Touches the Sky (essay)
Vered Hankin
8. Sister (poem)
Alana Suskin
9. Mazel: The Luck of the Irish (essay)
Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith
Part II. Nefesh: Ourselves in Relation to our Bodies
10. Blessings in Boxes (essay)
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
11. At Home in My Own Skin (essay)
Clara Thaler
12. Boiled Beet (poem)
Anna Swanson
13. Who is a Jew? (essay)
Loolwa Khazzoom
14. The Kibbutz (poem)
Deborah Preg
15. When You're Looking for G-d, Go Home (essay)
Jessie Heller-Frank
16. Orange (poem)
Andrea Gottlieb
17. A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find (essay)
Julie Pelc
Part III. Neshamah: Our Emotional and Intellectual Selves
18. Chutzpah and Menschlekeit: Negotiating Identity in Jerusalem (essay)
Caryn Aviv
19. Passages (poem)
Leah Berger
20. Meeting in the Middle (essay)
Lynne Meredith Schreiber
21. Secret Weapon (poem)
Amy Elisabeth Bokser
22. Ira Glass, Where Are You? (essay)
Tobin Belzer
23. Stepping Eastward (essay)
Daveena Tauber
24. Making Love on the Deutsche Bahn (essay)
Ruth A. Abusch-Magder
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