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The Friendship Plot
For us striving wives and mothers of the world, worn out from the exertions of trying to conform to a dream, female friendship might be the only place where we can simply be.
For us striving wives and mothers of the world, worn out from the exertions of trying to conform to a dream, female friendship might be the only place where we can simply be.
We are transformed by the weight of what we can no longer pretend not to see.
A wartime dispatch from Elana Sztokman
Reshaping the women of the Bible. Standing up for immigrants now. Checking in with Jennifer Weiner. Costume art.
In Lilith`s current issue, Gen Slosberg shares 6 important ways to show up for immigrants--now and always.
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Illustrations by Rebecca Katz.
"Through BDSM I leave my disability for a moment, as it were, and my body actually receives a different kind of care—not medical or typical care, but care born from pleasure, giving, and enjoyment."
In honor of Disability Pride Month, we are revising Lilith`s robust archive of writing by and about Jewish feminists with disabilities. Limor Ashkenazi is a disabled artist and Lilith`s Summer 2024 cover girl. Learn more about her and her work at the link in our bio!
Slide 1: Film still from “32 Inches of Queen” (2019), co-created with Ariel Bronze
Slide 2: Photograph from the series, ‘Awakening’ (2021), taken by Gustavo Hochman
Lox 🤝 Feminism
Do you know the feminist story behind NYC’s iconic appetizing shops?
Over the weekend, we visited Russ & Daughters’ Lower East Side café and shop and (re)visited Lilith’s 2020 article by Ruth Andrew Ellenson about the daughters of Russ Federman—and the legacy that his great-granddaughter and current owner Niki Russ Federman continues today.
Photos by @arielle_slvr
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"Even though many people feel for their own soul’s wellbeing that they have to give up a piece of themselves, I have discovered over time, and with an incredible amount of ongoing personal work, that it is, in fact, possible to live in an integrated way. You don’t have to give up either your dignity as a disabled person or your desire for spiritual practice. Buoyed by my mentors and teachers, I developed an understanding of disability as beloved by G-d."
In honor of Disability Pride Month, we are revising Lilith`s robust archive of writing by and about Jewish feminists with disabilities. Read Rabbi Lauren Tuchman`s 2024 article now — link in bio!
We are so saddened to hear about the death of long-time Lilith writer Jane Lazarre. May her memory be for a blessing.