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May 04, 2007
Lit Cafe: Jewish Women Who Walk the Walk and Write the Talk
The JCC in Manhattan hosted a rollicking event last week with its Lit Cafe. What a theme: "Young, Jewish and S-xual: Women Writers Who Walk the Walk and Write the Talk."
Not only did the all-star line-up write the talk, but they read it out loud. And what they had to read -- what would you expect at an event co-sponsored by our good friends at Kinky Jews? Most of the material can't be summarized, let alone quoted in detail, but I jotted down some witty and relatively clean passages.
The evening kicked off with Jamye Waxman, current president of Feminists for Free Expression, reading a piece about experiments with libido-enhancing products, conducted with her boyfriend. Discussing the failure of one product that had the consistency of "peanut butter and honey," she said, "The only depths I want to go to are under my blanket."
Next up was comic/writer/actress Mindy Raf, who quipped about being at the JCC, "This is awkward for me because I used to work here. I ran the day care." Raf read a story called, "Banged by a Birthright Employee," which she prefaced with a long and humorous disclaimer about its "fictional" nature.
The third reader, Amy Sohn, was the best known, based on her New York Magazine columns and the novel Run Catch Kiss. A passage she read from that novel had the memorable line, "He could be my perfect goy, but not the perfect guy." Sohn also read from "My Old Man," about a 26-year old rabbinical school dropout, a woman involved with an older man. She read, "If he didn't want a wife, why did he go to a JCC event?"
The final reader was Nebraska native Rachel Shukert, actress/performance artist/playwright. She imagined a bat mitzvah speech she might have given around 1992, as discovered by future historians. "What if everything in the Torah was mistranslated?" she mused. She soon added, "We agreed that medieval Europe is a deeply inappropriate theme for a bat mitzvah."
So, a tip of the kippah to the JCC and co-sponsors Jewish Week and Kinky Jews for bringing together an evening of estrogen-driven entertainment. Let's see if they assemble the male equivalent. Now, if it's an open mike night . . . I'd better start revising some of my Kesher Talk entries for a possible public reading.
Van | 05/04/07 at 06:50 AM | Categories: Sensual pleasures
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