Maayan Belding-Zidon
Neither my classmates’ psalms nor my prayers of supplication had succeeded in bringing peace.
My Quiet Refusal on Jerusalem Day
Author: admin
I Left Kyiv Due to Antisemitism. But I’m Back, and Staying.
Helen Chervitz
It was challenging to adjust to my second-time-around life in the Ukrainian capital. But eventually, the city has grown, or regrown, on me. And now I’m staying put.
This War, Passover and the Generation of the Wilderness
Olga Zelzburg Alterman
Personally, I argue that every person born in the Soviet Union belongs to this generation of the wilderness. We were born in a sort of bondage, after all.
Poetry: History
Sandra Reva Goldberg
A Yiddish-inflected expression of pride with rich wisdom and “humor to spare.”
Poetry: Eighteen Ways of Looking at Property
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
A sharply composed collage-poem that provokes us to perceive connections, to recognize the reality of multiple convictions in our troubled time, and to ask ourselves: What now? What then?
Poetry: Know Your Place
Baillie Aaron
Impossible requirements for assimilation then turn into rasping hate-speech that evolves into sneer, into threat.
Poetry: Sarah Asleep
Gail Newman
The latest midrash with a woman-centered version of the story of “the binding of Isaac.”
Poetry: Eden Is an Archetype
Diana M. Allen
In Honor of National Poetry Month, Lilith will be sharing original work by Jewish feminist poets throughout the first week in April. We begin in the Garden of Eden…
My Tattoos, Queerness, Ex-Orthodoxy… Oh My!
Je'Jae Cleo Daniels
With my tattoos, I am an artsy fartsy Jewess who has forged my own authentic derech (path).
The Dybbukast: “The New World”
Lilith Staff
Gender and Yiddish fiction on the latest episode of “The Dybbukast.”