Author: Guest Contributor

Honoring Queen Esther’s Secret Self

Leah Grisham

This year, with some unlikely help from Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie, I finally have the words to explain why honoring Queen Esther with the name Hadassah is so important to me.

A New Set of Rituals for Abortion and Pregnancy Loss

Naima Hirsch Gelman

If rituals give us context to mark transitions and liturgy gives us the language to describe them, there is a whole set of transitions and experiences historically ignored within Jewish tradition. 

Two Jews, Three Opinions in the Age of Online Rage

Leah Grisham

Historically, Jews have dealt with so much violence, discrimination, and hate enacted by outside forces: we cannot afford to inflict pain against each other. And perhaps–that’s why we inflict pain against each other?

A Modern Illuminated Manuscript

Susan H. Picker and Jean Bloch Rosensaft

Artist Debra Band has produced the first-ever fully illustrated Qohelet ((The Book of Ecclesiastes).

Independent, jewish & frankly feminist

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