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> PRESS RELEASE
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> Toronto, January 28, 2008
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> Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Volume 4, No. 2, (Fall 
> 2007)
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> http://www.womeninjudaism.org <http://www.womeninjudaism.org/>
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> We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of a new issue of
> Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. The journal can be accessed
> at http://www.womeninjudaism.org <http://www.womeninjudaism.org/>
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> This is the first multidisciplinary refereed periodical solely dedicated 
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> gender-related issues in Judaism.
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> The issue features:
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> ARTICLES:
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> "Do Not Reject Your Mother's Teaching?!" - The Function of Micah's Mother 
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> Judges 17
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> Heidi M. Szpek
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> The Frankfurt a.M. Memorbuch: Gender Roles in the Jewish Community
> Institutions
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> Tzvia Koren-Loeb
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> The Writer as Witness: Latin American Jewish Women's Testimonio in the 
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> of Marjorie Agosín, Sonia Guralnik, Alicia Kozameh and Alicia Partnoy
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> Benay Blend
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> AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
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> Hilda Geiringer: A Pioneer of Applied Mathematics and a Woman ahead of her
> Time Was Saved from Fascism by Turkey
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> Arnold Reisman
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> BOOK REVIEWS by Justin Jaron Lewis, Nathan P. Devir, Susan Landau-Chark,
> Albrecht Classen, Adam Stewart, Walter E. Brown, Sara L. Kimble, Amy
> Tziporah Karp, Helen Frink, Shayna Sheinfeld, Sandra Dillon, Beth Dwoskin,
> Andrea Eidinger, Chris Chan, Melissa Faulkner, Rebecca Davis, Benay Blend,
> Sara Rofofsky Marcus, and Azila Talit Reisenberger.
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> FILM REVIEWS by David A. Salomon and Batya Weinbaum.
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> FICTION (SHORT STORIES AND POETRY) by Lenore Weiss, Kim Ben-Porat, Kate
> Mende-Fridkis, Renee Friedman, Miriam Budner, Carol Schwalberg, Sandra
> Hurtes, Ellen Geist, Norma Anapol, Shawne Steiger, Adam Jeffries Schwartz,
> I.B. (Bunny) Iskov, Julie Phelan, Renee von Paschen, Tia Pliskow, Felice
> Myriam Kahn Ziskin, Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Leah Shelleda, Dori Appel 
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> Lenore Weiss.
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> Click on this link to access the new issue:
> http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/issue/current
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> Contact information:
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> Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief
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> Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
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