Pub Date : 2011-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRIDGES.16.1.151
Ellen Cassedy, S. Heschel
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{"title":"Conversations Begin with Questions","authors":"J. Arcana, Lois Leveen","doi":"10.2979/bridges.16.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/bridges.16.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108822,"journal":{"name":"Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRIDGES.16.1.143
Karen Margolis, R. Ruderman
143 Sunday, December 26, 2010 Dear Renée, What a happy coincidence that Clare Kinberg put us in touch with each other. To introduce myself: I was born in Zimbabwe to a family of conservative Jewish Baltic origin; spent my childhood in South Africa and London and studied mathematics before becoming a journalist and writer. I am a British citizen. Having lived in Berlin for nearly 30 years, I have often written about “being Jewish in Germany” and have also participated in several interviews, films etc. I am also actively involved in the anti-racist movement here and the fight against anti-Semitism. You can find work of mine on the net at my website: http://karenmargolis.wordpress.com/ Looking forward to hearing from you, and best wishes for the festive season,
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{"title":"Translations Tel Aviv to Toronto","authors":"Dara Barnat, Gili Haimovich","doi":"10.2979/bridges.16.1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/bridges.16.1.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108822,"journal":{"name":"Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122410460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hi Rachel, It was so beautiful to hear you describe my poems lying in your mind down between the sea and mountain—and thanks for including “Renunciation” in your class. I hope you will let me know how the students read it or hear it. “Thicket” and “Hunger” were both hard poems for me to write. I love the idea that Isaac did not know why he was going up the mountain, because the crux of the Ismail myth is that he knows and chooses to follow his father—the first suicide martyr! He says, “Do what you are commanded, father; you will find me among the faithful.” Alicia Ostriker has this terrifying read of the Abraham/Isaac myth: that Abraham has actually disobeyed God or betrayed his prophethood by agreeing to the sacrifice since Letters on Uncertainty, bewiLderment and Faith
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Sarah: I started teaching creative writing based on Tanach [Hebrew scriptures: Torah, Prophets, Writings] to high school kids in an after school program, but it took years before I incorporated the process I taught them into my writing. At first, I thought poetry was coming from a different spiritual energy and Judaism would dry it up, especially the brand of Judaism I began to find myself more and more involved in. And yes, being in an Orthodox Jewish environment, before I was grounded in who I was, did stop the poetry. I tried to write but garble came out, words that couldn’t describe what I was feeling or communicate it to anyone. However, I still had the yearning to persevere in the writing. I entered an MFA program and eventually was able to write poems that connected my Judaism profoundly to my feelings. Bridges published a few of these poems, inclusing “The Ritual Bath.” As I wrote that poem, I discovered spiritual meaning out of difficult emotions I felt during the process of immersing in the mikvah.
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