Minyan / Ellen Orleans -- Loving a woman / Ellen Bass -- Unticheled / Rose Fox -- If everything that burns / Sima Rabinowitz -- Ruth: separated from Naomi / Bonnie Morris -- A Noah story / Jenny Factor -- The lies that save us / Lisa Dordal -- Middle age / Bonnilee Kaufman -- Sh'ma / Joanna Hoffman -- Ohio ice storm / Joan Annsfire -- Grogging / Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz -- Need / Jennifer Margulies -- Sunday brunch in Orange County, California / Eleanor Lerman -- The new Egypt / Robin Becker -- An eastern/western country song / Elana Dykewomon -- 13 ways of looking at 9/11 / Leslea Newman -- Words to the woman in the hat, Rosa Luxemburg / Joan Nestle -- Breath / Joy Ladin -- Mischling / Jess Novak -- I have two vampire hands / Megan Volpert -- Mount Nebo / Achy Obejas -- Secretly we opened the bottle of amber sweetness and dipped our bread / Sandra H. Tarlin -- Wedding Vow / Hilary Lustick -- An ode to the name I do not have / Marla Brettschneider -- Meal before the fast / Eryca Kasse -- Yom Kippur / Dina Kompanietza -- Orgasm on Yom Kippur / Eleanor Levine -- Everything I need to know about being Jewish I learned from The Nanny / Allison Wonderland -- Testing Abraham / Julie R. Enszer -- On passover alone / Margarita Miniovich -- Selections from Mother Tongue / Maya Kuperman -- Aleph (again) / Batya Weinbaum -- For Despina / Marilyn Hacker -- About the authors