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As part of the celebration of Lilith’s 100th issue, our fall issue has a list of 100 great feminist ideas. Check out the issue and leave your own ideas below!… Read more »
Great Jewish Feminist Ideas
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Ten Ways in Which the "Selichot Season" Concert of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Differs From a Concert Anywhere Else in the World
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1. The concert begins when a world-famous clarinetist enters from the back row playing Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold), encouraging the audience to sing along. 2. In between musical… Read more »
Entry# 4: One Month Anniversary in the Cancer Chronicles
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To say the words feels equivalent to conjuring fiendish spirits. To write out the significance of this approaching month- this precarious, shifty month- feels equivalent to summoning thieves, to doing… Read more »
10 Ways to Know that Summer is Over in Jerusalem
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1. You can no longer find cherries anywhere, but the first blood-red pomegranates are in all the markets and even on some of the trees (like the one in my… Read more »
The Saber vs. The Pen: Jewish Women in the Olympics
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Like most everyone with a television set the world over, I too have been watching the Olympics — and getting more excited about sports and my country than I expected… Read more »
Swimming in the Early Days of Av
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My friend Roni saw me on my way to the pool last week and was surprised to see where I was going. “You? Swimming during the nine days? I’m shocked!… Read more »
Jewish Women Leaders: Mourning One's Loss, Watching Another On the Rise
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Let’s face it. It’s hard for women to rise to the top in the Jewish world. Whatever the reasons, only a handful of women sit at the highest echelons of… Read more »
The Israeli Prisoner Swap and the Hadassah Convention
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The Zionist Women’s Organization, Hadassah, had its annual convention last week in Los Angeles. Plenty of noteworthy goings on went on there. But that will have to wait for another… Read more »
Jewish Women Artists Emerge at Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Photographic Account
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Given my last Lilith post, you might think the above image is of Barbie dolls. But, in fact, those are models — modeling fashions by up-and-coming and eccentric designer Levi… Read more »
Entry #3: Transcendence
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Why does it feel impossible to imagine your mother as anything but that, when up until you she was everything but that? I remember when I was eight years old.… Read more »