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New Feminist Journal
Arrives In Ann Arbor

publication is looking to
engage contributors who
haven't written previously
Special to The Jewish News
and are willing to work col-
he poet and prose
laboratively with them.
writer Adrienne Rich
Two issues will be publish-
will be in Ann Arbor
ed annually; each issue is
over 125 pages long. The
during the last weekend in
magazine is available by
March giving a Hillel-
subscription and is also being
sponsored lecture/reading at
distributed to bookstores by
Rackham Auditorium.
Rich also is coming to town
Indland Book Co.
Bridges
to help gather support for a
does
How
new national Jewish feminist
distinguish itself from other
feminist journals? "The dif-
journal that's just been
printed in Ann Arbor. The
ference between Bridges and
Lilith is the difference bet-
journal is called Bridges and
Rich was one of the
ween Ms. and Off Our Backs,
originators and sits on the
White explains.
White and Kraut have both
editorial board, as do two Ann
worked on publications deal-
Arborites, Laurie White, 34,
ing with either politically pro-
and Ruth Kraut, 26, who
gressive or feminist issues.
have been working to get the
Kraut edited Nimrod: the
first issue out.
"We all have so many parts
Journal of the Jewish
of our identity that we're try-
Socialist Community when
she was in Oberlin where she
ing to honor," White explains.
received her degree in en-
"We have to find ways to build
vironmental studies. White,
bridges to come out whole."
who identifies herself as a
Bridges is an outgrowth of
feminist therapist, worked for
New Jewish Agenda's Na-
tional Feminist Task Force
years on the Flint Voice, and
established several years ago.
is author of Take Care With
Yourself A Young Person's
"Jewish feminism has been a
Guide to the Understanding,
really positive thing but we
Prevention, and Healing from
don't seem to have a vehicle
to communicate it," White
the Hurts of Child Abuse.
The publication of Bridges
says. White, Kraut and others
follows the recent closing of
hope that Bridges can be that
two significant Jewish
vehicle, that "missing voice"
publications, Genesis 2 and
finally spoken.
Although the magazine is
Present Tense. ❑
presently affiliated with NJA
it maintains its own editorial
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independence and ad-
ministrative autonomy.
Bridges is a mixture of
Rabbis Provide
essays, oral histories, fiction,
Passover Parcels
poetry, music and graphics.
Chabad rabbis Herschel
The inaugural issue includes,
Finman of the Lubavitch
for example, a story, "The
Foundation office, Aharon
Word Between the World and
Goldstein of the Chabad
God," by Emily Warn who
House of Ann Arbor, Yisroel
was born in Detroit, a
Weingarten of the Chabad
photographic essay by Joan
House of Eastern Michigan in
Biren reviewing a decade of
Flint, Yosaif Weingarten of
Jewish feminist activities and
the Chabad House of Western
poetry by Irena Klepfisz who's
Michigan in Grand Rapids,
active in Jewish lesbian-
and Yosef Shemtov of the
feminist circles.
Chabad House of Toledo will
Editorial staff are hoping
distribute Passover parcels to
that the publication can
Jewish inmates in the local
answer to several different
prisons.
voices. "There's a dilemna
The prisons include Scott
whether to be Jewish work-
Correctional Facility, Phoenix
ing in the progressive corn-
and Western Wayne in
munity or to be progressive
Plymouth, Thumb in Lapeer,
working in the Jewish corn-
Genesse County, Muskegon
munity," White says. "It's not
Temporary, Ionia and Milan
a contradiction but it is dif-
Federal Prison.
ficult to do."
Packages will contain
White also feels that the
Shmura and machine mat-
magazine can offer the oppor-
zoh, grape juice, gefilte fish,
tunity to publish works by
matzoh ball soup and
Jewish feminists who are in-
horseradish.
volved in political and social
lb add a prisoner to the
issues and those who are
visitation
list, call Rabbi Fin-
more involved in spiritual
man, 737-7000.
ones. Kraut adds that the

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