Liba Vaynberg
A new Broadway musical tells the story of a half-Jewish, half-gentile singing comedy group in pre-WWII Germany
Sitting Down With the Cast of “Harmony”
Author: InternsFall21
Jessica Keener’s Night Swim, A Decade Later
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later.
My Barbenheimer Childhood
Tammy Hepps
The Barbenheimer phenomenon reminds us that we all contain multitudes, even contradictory multitudes.
Kibbitz & Nosh: Photographs
Marcia Bricker Halperin
Dubrow’s Cafeteria was more than just a place to eat for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers and Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photo essay illuminates why.
Draw Close: A Conversation with Poet Alisha Kaplan
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Alisha Kaplan talks to Lilith about sacrificial offerings, ritual, and her debut poetry collection.
Genetic Screening is More Urgent Than Ever
Sarah Leibov
Jewish and Thinking About Getting Pregnant? Get Tested NOW. 2 in 3 Jews test positive as a carrier of genetic disease.
Bloody Bat Mitzvah
Aria Knepler-Pearl
As a girl who is lucky enough to have access to information and supplies for my period, it’s my job to help other girls and women who don’t have as much as me.
Is Body Neutrality a Jewish Value?
Hannah Meyer
“The road to a disordered relationship with food and exercise was paved with well-intentioned comments about my appearance and eating habits.”
That Time I Dressed as a Mechitza… for Feminism
Danielle Durchslag
So, T and I came up with a compromise. I would show up to her daughter’s Purim reading, in costume, dressed AS a mechitza, and stand on the men’s side.
Fiction: “Worms”
Simona Zaretsky
Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.