When Is Sex Improper?
Rabbinical Students Struggle With Morality and Modernity (March 1998)
For many students at the seminary, these events raised questions about several issues, specifically a rabbi's right to privacy, the moral standards of rabbis, and the problems that modern society poses to Jews committed to halakhah.

Orthodoxy, Feminism, and Overcrowding
The second annual conference proves that one year later there is still plenty to talk about (March 1998)
Wendy Amsellem established a women's Tefillah group at Harvard University. "College is a good place to explore feminism [because in college] you have so much authority [that] you're aware of when you don't have authority."

Crossing The Mechitzah
(February 1998)
"In my peripheral vision, I noticed some of the male congregants demonstratively folding up their tallitot (prayer shawls) making it clear that for them the service was well and truly over. Yet others equally demonstratively pulled their tallitot taut around their shoulders, anxious to make the opposite, supportive, point."

Confronting Christian Crusaders
What does Promise Keepers' popularity mean for Jews? (December 1997)
"As National Organization for Women (NOW) president Patricia Ireland pointed out at the 'Stand In The Gap' rally, 'There is a reason that Promise Keepers is having their rally in Washington with the Capitol as the backdrop. . . When members of Congress look out onto the Mall, they see the same thing I see‹hundreds of thousands of constituents and voters.'"

Jewish Fraternity Foibles
At Indiana University, ZBT scandal inflames campus (December 1997)
"One year shy of its fiftieth anniversary at Indiana University and its 100th anniversary nationally, the Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) has been hit with a scandal that threatens to linger for years to come."

Sex, Miscegenation, and the Intermarriage Debate
(November 1997)
"There are many Jews who use the cover of continuity, with its focus on children, to hide their own racialist proclivities."

Women On The Wall
Celebrating the accomplishments of Jewish women in North America (November 1997)
Last year, through the joint efforts of Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project and the Jewish Women's Archive, an exciting new venture was launched to add a Jewish component to Women's History Month.

The New Puritanism
Is Dorm Life At Yale Immoral? (October 1997)
Press outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, Time, The Boston Globe, and The New Yorker have focused their gaze on New Haven after five Orthodox Jewish undergraduates threatened to file a suit against Yale. Prominent Washington attorney Nathan Lewin has agreed to take their case.

Circumcision: A Dialogue
(October 1997)
"After much consideration, I have decided that I too am against unconsentual circumcision. And so I have decided that when my son reaches his eighth day, he will be allowed to make the decision for himself."

Rosa Parks Redux?
Israeli bus segregation is just the beginning (September 1997)
"When the New York Jewish Week asked feminist activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin what she thought of the new policy, she exclaimed that it evoked 'echoes of blacks sitting in the back of the bus . . .' For an American Jewish leadership who came of age during the Civil Rights movement, it will be difficult to understand the new policy any other way."

Profile: Rebecca Gutterman
(April 1997)
"Rebecca Gutterman has one of those soft and pleasant speaking voices, evidence of her "good-Jewish-girl" upbringing. But when she steps into her role as a storyteller she is a powerful presence on stage, displaying strength through her quirkiness, irony and humor."

Inside Hillel's Closet
(April 1997)
"Unless Hillel staff and students are intentional in their efforts to create a welcoming atmosphere and climate, gay Jews will continue to remain on the periphery of the Jewish community. . ."

A Woman at the Wall
(April 1997)
"Swallowing back tears, I steadied my voice and began to sing louder, more defiantly. Something flew into the crowd of praying women and bounced off my friend's back."

Take My Wife! Please!
(April 1997)
As distressing as the current demonizing of Jewish women is, it wouldn't be quite so bad if so many Jewish men weren't joining the attacks . . .

Sex, Miscegenation, and the Intermarriage Debate (November 1997)