Current issue:

Adele Margolis: A Retrospective Exhibit
by Ellen Steinbaum

"'From the start I was never daunted by the complexity of anything. If the pattern was too complicated, I simplified it. I invented my own way of doing it. If I wanted something I figured out how to do it.' She was talking about sewing, but the words describe her approach to life in general."

Past issues:

Recollections of Patricia A. Barr
by Sally A. Gottesman
"Pat firmly believed that each action she took—in the public realm and the private realm—affected the universe. Both her formal resume and a glimpse into one ordinary day reflect this...."

Recollections of Sara Blum
by Liz Fuerst
"At Camp Navarac, most of us never knew about Sara's "other" life dedicated to Jewish causes, but we were always aware she was an iconoclast."

Recollections of Polly Spiegel Cowan
by Holly C. Shulman
"They helped the poor women of Mississippi, both black and white, help themselves."

Paean to a Troublemaker: Barbara Dobkin
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"She functions not just as a donor but an activist and advocate. She teaches women about money and power.... and her philanthropic decisions have literally transformed the landscape of feminist philanthropy, and put Jewish feminism on the map in concrete and dramatic ways."

"...it's not hard to see the values and the world view at the root of her giving. I'd wager that no other Jewish woman with Barbara's resources has deployed them more mindfully, effectively, or with a greater consciousness of their impact on the future."

Who She Was: A Son's Search
Recollections of Eleanor Hatkin Freedman
by Samuel G. Freedman

"The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, 'mutilated' and 'disfigured.' Her allure was part of her life-force, something inextricably tied to her passions for intellectual growth and artistic expression. In hearing about her desires, I was achieving very much what I had set out to do, bringing her back from the dead."

Recollections of Sheilah Graham
by Wendy Fairey
"I learned of my mother's Dickensian childhood as well as her relationship with Fitzgerald only when I was a teenager and she published the first of her books, Beloved Infidel...."

Re: Collecting My Life and Work
by Blu Greenberg

"My papers would be placed among those of other female writers and activists. Propinquity would invite inquiry and would add Jewish feminism to the larger mix."

"In the end, I took on the project with relish and family encouragement. I threw caution to the winds and decided not to monitor or pre-select; the whole record would be open, the lumps along with the accolades."

Recollections of Lenore Pancoe Meyerhoff
by Lee M. Hendler
"She was a veritable steam engine--daily combusting with ideas and work. Fountains, plazas, auditoriums, gardens, interdisciplinary medical and learning centers all testify to her influence."

Recollections of Nell Ziff Pekarsky
by Jane Feinberg-Kaplan
"...one artifact in her apartment kept my curiosity alive: a small, black and white photograph that hung unpretentiously on her bedroom wall. Nell was standing next to Eleanor Roosevelt."

Remembering Arlene Raven
by Judy Chicago
"… She always seemed to bounce back, more determined, braver and more adventurous than ever each time infirmity threatened to prevent her from living life to the hilt. And she was beautiful, with long hair as dark as a raven's that gave even more meaning to her new name, which seemed to suit her perfectly. From the moment she adopted it, she fit into it as if it were a glove waiting to be donned by her." [this item is shared with the We Remember section of this website]

Recollections of Gertrud C. Reyersbach
by Prudence L. Steiner
"I liked all the toys in your office but actually my favorite thing was you."

Recollections of Mattie Levi Rotenberg
by Nessa Rapoport
"One Erev Pesach my grandmother demonstrated physics at the University of Toronto for three hours, went to the radio studio to tape a live broadcast, taped two more broadcasts for the upcoming days of Yom Tov, and came home to make seder."

Recollections of Beatrice Holtzman Schneiderman
by Laura Kaufman
"The only people for whom she had contempt were those who refused to take a stand."

Recollections of Shulamis Yelin
by Tamara Cohen
"This was Shulamis, turning garbage into beauty and proud of it."