"For so many of us, feminism is about our physical experiences. We are engaged in this work out of a response to something that happened to us viscerally."
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Do artists have a responsibility to address social issues? If they do, can their creativity motivate us to heal our world? Two exhibitions at the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York offer new artistic responses to these questions.
Author Penny Jackson talks to Lilith about why she loves the short story form and her recent collection, “My Daughter’s Boyfriends.”
“Daughter of the Wicked,” now playing in NYC, follows one woman’s journey to Israel as she searches for her sister who disappeared in the Yemenite Missing Children Affair.
The way two very different women find common ground is at the heart and soul of the novel Never Meant to Meet You and its two authors—one white, the other Black—talk to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how they came together to write it.
Aftermath: Coming-of-Age on Three Continents charts the winding journey of Annette Liebskind Bervokvitz.
“The right wing has always been afraid of sex.”
Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Marilyn Singer about “Awe-some Days,” a collection of poetry and prose about Jewish holidays for children.
“How could I pick just one when I was, ethnically, as Black as I was Jewish-white?”
