FROM THE EDITOR Editor-in-Chief

>§ '. 'f- Susan Weidman Schneider General Manager

Paula Gantz

Special Projects Editor Susan Schnur

You'll notice in this issue of LILITH something very differ-ent: a map through the maze of Jewish and women's issues that confront young Jewish women (and those counseling them) when they face those crucial college decisions.

There are plenty of books and listings that tell about other aspects of campus life. What no one has talked about until now are the questions we should be asking to ferret out information on which cam-puses are good environments for Jewish women students — to nurture them, challenge them, and allow them to gradu-ate with their self-esteem as women and as Jews still intact.

In LILITH's "An Insider's Look at Campus Life," we've attempted to do just that. We sent a college editor and a crew of campus correspondents out into the field, and what you'll be reading in a few minutes is the fruit of their labors. Not a complete analysis of each one of the campuses listed, but a composite picture of the prob-lems and opportunities for women on campus today. Read on!

Another set of articles in this issue of the magazine posed a different challenge to us. We started by wanting to examine in a general way the roles of women in Jewish families. Then things got a bit out of hand. Had we expected a single

LILITH thanks the following for their generous financial assistance: Mimi Alperin, Hinda Beral, Susan Berenzweig, Frances R. Berger, Vivian Berry, Jacob & Hilda Blaus-tein Foundation, Rena J. Blumberg. Barbara Bomze, Deborah Boxer-man, Therese Censor, Judith Chap-man, Aphrodite Clamar, Jonina Du-ker, Louise Eder, Lewis & Judy Eisenberg, Marcy Feldman, Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, Irene Fine, G. Gang, Florence Gantz, Cathy Gildesgame, Rabbi Bruce

unified portrait? What LILITH's editors realized when we spoke to family mavens was that there's a kaleidoscope out there, a composite rendering. We were all daughters at some point, but beyond that where is our commonality?

To find out, Special Projects Editor Susan Schnur contacted women who are researching and writing about a new psy-chology of women in families. But — fascinatingly — these women were often interested in exploring for us life in their own Jewish families! What we present in this issue of LILITH is one of these stories — Harriet Goldhor Lerner's. This issue also presents refractions of the Jewish family as seen by Olga Silverstein, Barbara Lebow and Gertrude Dubrovsky, who filter their insights through the mesh of their own experiences.

The next few issues of LILITH will continue this fam-ily theme (next time looking at how we see our mothers).

Making this issue possible are, as you can see from the list on this page, a number of indi-viduals and foundations who have made LILITH a tzedakah (philanthropy) priority. I men-tion this here not only to call your attention to their names and to thank them publicly, but also to remind you that LILITH is sustained by these tax-deductible contributions. Our advertising pages are growing,

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Associate Editor Diana Bletter News Editor

Reena Sigman Friedman

Fiction Editor Julia Wolf Mazow

Poetry Editor Bonnie Anker

Art Director Virginia Lujano

Photography Marilynne Herbert

Administrator Naomi Danis

Advertising Manager Lynda Marshak

Founding Co-Editor Aviva Cantor

Advisory Board Rachel Adler, Arlene Agus, Esther Broner, Nina Cardin, Elaine Cohen, Annette Daum, Susan Dessel, Sue Elwell, Elie Faust-Levy, Helene Ferr is , Irene Fine, Eva Fogelman, Shirley Frank, Doris Gold, Blu Greenberg, Judith Hauptman, Paula Hyman, Anne Lapidus Lerner, Sharon Lieberman, Audrey Friedman Marcus, Rela Geffen Monson, Anita Norich, J u d i t h P l a s k o w , N e s s a Rapoport, Rochelle Saidel, Sandy E. Sasso, Mary Cahn Schwartz, Doreen Seidler-Feller, Ida Cohen Selavan, Elaine Starkman, Amy Stone, Ann G. Wolfe, Sheva Zucker

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