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Publication Notes

A publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Volume VII, Issue 2
Summer 2008–Tammuz 5768

President:
Carol Kaufman Newman

Founding President:
Blu Greenberg

Executive Director:
Robin Bodner

Editor:
Jennifer Stern Breger

Editorial Committee:
Allie Alperovich
Carolyn Hochstadter Dicker
Pam Scheininger

Founding Donors:
Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum
Jewish Life Network/
Steinhardt Foundation
The Harry Stern Family Foundation,
Zelda R. Stern

Individual & Communal Mourning

Articles

עד ספוד ועת רקוד A Time for Mourning and a Time for Dancing

Women, Funerals, and Cemeteries

Hevra Kadisha: An Appreciation

Sometimes the Chaplain Is the Only One Who Can Mourn

Dignity in the Face of the Holocaust

Mourning the Loss of a Baby

A Mother’s Kaddish

Mourning Practices in the Syrian Jewish Community

I Will Watch Over You

The Death of Miriam

Women and Asceticism in the Talmudic Tradition

Mourning for Jerusalem Through the Centuries

Winding and Weaving: The Threads of Life

The Prohibition of Eating Meat and Drinking Wine During the Three Weeks

Who Wrote the Book of Eikha?

Eikha Rabbah and Righteous Anger

Tehinnat ha-Nashim le-Vinyan ha-Mikdash – The Supplication of the Mothers for the Rebuilding of the Temple

Eikha Through the Voices of Women

Reading of Eikha

Mourning and Consolation

How Do We Remember? A Personal Reflection on the Loss of the Temple

Emerging Voices: התקווה בת שנות אלפיים –Our Hope of 2000 Years

The Laments of Women

Book Corner

Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation

Moses’ Women

The Torah: A Women’s Commentary

Understanding Tzniut: Modern Controversies in the Jewish Community

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