Author: Helene Meyers

Helene Meyers is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is the author, most recently, of Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness and is working on a book about Jewish American cinema.
The Misogyny of Menashe

Helene Meyers

Reviewers are praising this Yiddish-language film as being universal. But is that “universality” really just misogyny? 

Flying While Female on El Al

Helene Meyers

 I suddenly felt as if the most sacred parts of my being—Jewish, feminist, intellectual—were being tested. 

Serious Missteps in Dirty Dancing Remake

Helene Meyers

The overt Jewiness that we have come to know, love, and critique in such shows as “Transparent” and “Broad City” is nowhere to be found here. 

Shiva Ribbons, Not Safety Pins

Helene Meyers

This practice of kriah, of rending garments or wearing a cut black ribbon, would signify our hearts broken from loss and would allow us to identify ourselves as fellow and sister mourners to one another. 

Holy and Unholy Tweets

Helene Meyers

The close proximity of Jewish and Muslim holy days is a welcome counter to the close proximity of bigotry that has plagued Jews and Muslims during this past week.

Independent, jewish & frankly feminist

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