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Too Jewish? Changing The Family Name

by Sarah Flint Erdreich

…gave me pause was, what to change it to? I might not be Sarah Flint, but Sarah Finkelstein didn’t fit, either. Then I thought about my mother’s ancestors. My mother’s…

Fiction: Autumn Chill

Nesha Ruther

It’s not yet ten and Sarah feels the hunger coiling tightly in her stomach. It foreshadows a long day, counting the degrees of sunset. Next to her in the car,…

Wayward Hearts

fiction by Nancy Reisman

…wide hazel eyes. She set down the apples and scooped up Sarah, holding Sarah like a shield. “You remember Ben Abrams?” I said. Edie nodded and stared at the air…

An Early American Portrait Yields Surprises About Race

Naomi Danis talks with historian Laura Arnold Leibman

…Did you uncover more material on Sarah? Yes! Sarah Brandon Moses has really become an obsession of mine. I just finished a book on Sarah and her brother Isaac called…

“You Don’t Have a Daddy, You Have a Donor”

by Julie Greenberg

…just with her mom. Together they make their family.” In her daycare, every single child except Sarah comes from a family with heterosexual parents, and I’m delighted Sarah has no…

Kiryat Arba, That Is, Hebron

Liya Rechtman

…of Sarah.” But Parshat Chayei Sarah isn’t about Sarah’s life, it’s about her death. It is Sarah’s death that allows the Jewish people to stake a claim in their land….

Beating Patriarchy At Its Own Game

by Mary Cahn Schwartz

…weak eyes,” who pays a heavy price for her unattractiveness.) Rebekah, like Sarah, has very definite ideas about her children, and like Sarah, she is a tiger protectress. Like Sarah,…

My Muslim Ancestor Hagar

by Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

…Sarah was not only extremely beautiful but righteous as well. In fact, according to Ibn Kathir, some Muslim scholars attributed the status of “prophet” to Sarah, one of only three…

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Since 1976, Lilith magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style.