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These pieces reflect this heartbreaking year of violence and loss. Two abiding themes are grief and hope
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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).
21 Books We Want to Read in 2024
Gwen Tucker
As a new year approaches, we are waiting in anticipation for all the exciting new books that will come with it — from queer time-traveling folklorish fantasies to reproductive health guidebooks, and everything in between.
Seven Powerful Jewish Feminist Moments of 2023
Helene Meyers
“She persisted” is the mantra of Jewish feminists, and this year is no exception.
On Grief
Esther Jay
“Literal heartache accompanies the loss of someone you love…the phantom pain of a severed limb.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Your Dying Mother.
Penny Jackson
“But there is no other title. My mother is dying. This story is really for me.”
My Family’s Bootleg Contraception Operation
Nina Siegal
My family’s underground birth control history has too much resonance today.
Four Cozy Rom-Com Books to Make You Smile This Winter
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Turn off the news, stop with the doom scrolling and seek out some frothier fare in this quartet of Jewish rom-com novels.
Imagining a Lost Jewish Past: Janice Weizman’s “Our Little Histories”
Elana Sztokman
I became interested the question of what it means to be cut off from your family’s past.
At the UN, Jewish Women Decry “Unbearable Silence” Around Oct. 7 Rapes
Joan Roth
Photographer Joan Roth was on hand to document the the hundreds who gathered outside the UN in support of Israeli victim/survivors of Oct. 7’s sexual violence.
Be a part of the story
Thank you to all who came to Lilith’s salon last night at Tsion Café in Harlem! It was such a joy to gather with intergenerational Jewish feminists for lively conversation about the themes from Lilith’s current issue, and such a treat to have several Lilith writers in our midst (including our Cover Queen Danielle Durchslag!)—not to mention the delicious noshes prepared by Ethiopian Israeli chef Beejhy Barhany (whose new Gursha cookbook recipes grace the back page of the current issue)!
We can’t wait to gather again and invite in even more of the Lilith community at the next Lilith salon in October — stay tuned for details 🩷
Photos by @arielle_slvr
"For us striving wives and mothers of the world, worn out from the exertions of trying to conform to a dream, female friendship might be the only place where we can simply be."
Read more of Nicole Graev Lipson`s musings in Lilith`s latest issue — link in bio!
PHOTO: MODODEOLHAR
In Lilith`s current issue, Gen Slosberg shares 6 important ways to show up for immigrants--now and always.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Illustrations by Rebecca Katz.
"Through BDSM I leave my disability for a moment, as it were, and my body actually receives a different kind of care—not medical or typical care, but care born from pleasure, giving, and enjoyment."
In honor of Disability Pride Month, we are revising Lilith`s robust archive of writing by and about Jewish feminists with disabilities. Limor Ashkenazi is a disabled artist and Lilith`s Summer 2024 cover girl. Learn more about her and her work at the link in our bio!
Slide 1: Film still from “32 Inches of Queen” (2019), co-created with Ariel Bronze
Slide 2: Photograph from the series, ‘Awakening’ (2021), taken by Gustavo Hochman
Lox 🤝 Feminism
Do you know the feminist story behind NYC’s iconic appetizing shops?
Over the weekend, we visited Russ & Daughters’ Lower East Side café and shop and (re)visited Lilith’s 2020 article by Ruth Andrew Ellenson about the daughters of Russ Federman—and the legacy that his great-granddaughter and current owner Niki Russ Federman continues today.
Photos by @arielle_slvr
Link in bio.
