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Thinking About Deportation, from 1492 to 2025Before deportations, there were expulsions. If we go back just over 500 years, to 1492, we are in the era when Columbus landed in the Americas, with the support of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela.
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“The Words Come Through Me”: Alicia Ostriker on the Healing Power of Poetry“What poetry does is put us in touch with our need to mend the world’s brokenness.”
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A Chronically Ill Holiday RitualAdapting traditions to make them fit our abilities and circumstances feels like the most Jewish thing I can think of…
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A Mourner’s Prayer in MoroccoHere I was in Marrakesh, brought right back to the core of my being, to my father, through a mourner’s prayer more than 2000 years old.
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Winter 2025Care and community in dark times. Novelists and playwrights reimagine family history. More writers over 40 debuting in Lilith’s pages.
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In honor of National Honor Our LGBTQ+ Elders Day, we are revisiting a powerful piece from Lilith Online by Carmel Tanaka. Read "Caring For, and Learning From, Queer and Trans Elders" now at lilith.org — link in bio!
Image caption: Carmel Tanaka and her mother, Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka, at a “Sharing Queer History” panel at the Museum of North Vancouver in 2023.
As we approach graduation season and prepare to say goodbye to our wonderful class of interns, we have milestones on our minds, both bitter and sweet ones. We have also been contemplating how Jewish tradition and ritual–or feminist twists on tradition and ritual–can guide and ground us during moments of change, struggle, and triumph.
Milestones mark our growth and progress through time. From classic milestones that tend to happen in spring and summer, like graduations and weddings, to more personal changes, tragedies and triumphs, like moving and surgery, Jewish feminists have turned to Lilith to shared their rituals and reflections. The pages of our magazine have become a place where we mark our personal and communal resilience.
📸: “Accompanying the Hasidic bride to the wedding canopy, Brooklyn, 1980s” by @joanrothphotography, published in Lilith’s Winter 2020-2021 Issue.
Whether you graduated this yesterday or decades ago, it’s never too late to celebrate our mentors! Tag us in a photo with your feminist mentor--we’ll reshare it!
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Gila Axelrod writes about chronic illness, Jewish holidays, and the beauty in building your own rituals. Read it now at the link in bio!
