PRESS RELEASE Toronto, February 18, 2008 Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Volume 5, Number 1 (Winter 2007) http://www.womeninjudaism.org

We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of another new issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. The journal can be accessed at http://www.womeninjudaism.org This is the first multidisciplinary refereed periodical solely dedicated to gender-related issues in Judaism.

The issue features:

ARTICLES:

The Levite's Concubine: The Story That Never Was Heidi M. Szpek Claudia Aster and Curtia Euodia: Two Jewish Women in Roman Italy David Noy, Susan Sorek The Trauma of Otherness and Hunger: Ruth and Lot’s Daughters Ruth Tsoffar Other Wise: Postcolonial Places in Canadian-Jewish Women’s Writing Michael Greenstein

BOOK REVIEWS by Judith Szapor, Connie Oxford, Edna Kantorovitz Carter Southard, Alan J. Yuter, Lynne Budesen, Sophia Avants, Adam Stewart, Bryan Kirby, William A. Tooman, Erlis Glass Wickersham, Esther Nussbaum, Daniel Moore, Edith Biegler Vandervoort, Andrea Pflaumer, Vanlentina Marinescu, Devorah Shubowitz, Sonia Smith Silva and Naomi Myrvaagnes.

FICTION (SHORT STORIES AND POETRY) by Elizabeth P. Glixman, Elaine Elinson, Shaindel Beers, Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Ilanna Sharon Mandel, Debby Waldman, Julie Phelan, Elena Kaufman, Renate Krakauer, Batya Weinbaum, Robert Manaster, Josef Lesser, Eva Kilgore, Judith Skillman, Carol Lipszyc, Michelle Lerner, Patty Seyburn, Carol V. Davis and Dorothy Field.

Click on this link to access the new issue: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/issue/current

The Editor-in-Chief extends special thanks and appreciation to Rea Devakos and Gabriela Mircea of the University of Toronto Libraries for their continuing support.

Contact information: Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 246 – 1054 Centre St. Thornhill, Ontario L4J 8E5 Canada Tel: (905) 764-2578 E-mail: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca