Lilith Feature

How Do We Become Grown-Up Jewish Women?

Naomi Danis asked each of these writers to look into her own life as a girl and name a turning point, that moment when she first saw herself as an adult.

In This Feature

by Shulamit Reinharz
The JGirl’s Guide

by Sonia Levitin
Room in the Heart

by Ruth Andrew Ellenson
The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt

by Danya Ruttenberg
Yentl’s Revenge

by Valerie Zenatt
When I Was a Soldier

by Judith Katzir
Closing the Sea

by Nessa Rapoport
House on the River: A Summer Journey

by Sarah Darer Littman
Confessions of a Closet Catholic

by Isabel Rose
The J.A.P. Chronicles

by Anita Diamant
The Last Days of Dogtown

by Marilyn Sachs
Lost in America

by Hannah R. Goodman
My Sister’s Wedding

by Fiona Rosenbloom
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah*

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