Laurie Rice
Women do not have abortions they want. They have abortions they need.
In Tennessee, Fighting Back as a Jew Against the Abortion Ban Hearing
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What the Editors Never Knew About a Lilith Cover!
Andrew Rehfeld
Opening remarks from Andrew Rehfeld at the Lilith summer 2019 launch party.
Talking Back to The Red Tent in the #MeToo Era
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Thus, when I ask students to respond in writing to The Red Tent, one question is, “Is Diamant’s midrash a feminist one? Can the redefinition of (possible) sexual assault as consensual sex be a feminist enterprise?
Sexism is Routine for Female Clergy
Barbara Ostfeld
Although we’re aware that it’s impossible, many of us try to dress in a way that’s designed to prevent sexist comments. By keeping our necklines high and our hemlines low, by avoiding anything clingy, we work at a calculus that has variables clearly beyond our control.
“Ask For Jane” Tells the Abortion Story You Never Heard, But Should Have
Noa Wollstein
“Ask for Jane” serves as a reminder that such a vicious restriction as the outlawing of abortion does not emerge in a vacuum and cannot be fought in isolation.
Rewards of a Vintage Clothes Junkie
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Camerino was keenly aware of how the needs of the modern women had evolved. She wanted to use fabrics that didn’t wrinkle, and designs that were extremely wearable and easy, but also exceptional.
Toni Morrison Gave Me Permission to Be a Mother and a Novelist
Rachel Kadish
The debts I owe to Toni Morrison are too great to enumerate. They’re literary, moral, personal. Among them is a debt to her for giving me the permission, through her own example, to be both a mother and a novelist.
How I Got My Town to Offer Free Menstrual Products
Sarah Groustra
The power of storytelling helped “free the period” in Brookline!
An Israeli Official Called My Family a “Second Holocaust” — and I Felt Relieved
Lynne Peskoe-Yang
In a recent meeting, the Israeli Minister of Educati called my family part of “a second Holocaust. My family isn’t ‘the second Holocaust. We’re the Diaspora.
I Walked Away Furious from an Auschwitz Exhibit: Here’s Why
Sarah Jake Fishman
“For an entire culture of people who recite ‘never again/le-olam lo,’ you’d think we’d recognize the signs when it is, in fact, happening again.”