Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
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What Tahara Can Teach Us
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During a Tahara, the Jewish ritual for sanctifying a body after death, we wash the body in a continuous stream of water, we engage in spacious silence, and we recite words which affirm the inherent goodness of every soul, every life an entire world.
Bring Them Home
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We are three weeks into the most threatening time I have lived through as a Jew.
Amazon Is Sold out of Sackcloth.
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
Letter from Israel: The Definition of Insanity
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Do we use our pain to unleash violence and hatred onto others? Or do we use our pain as an instrument of compassion, to learn to recognize the pain in others?
The Story of Noah, the Story of Our Hearts
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Amidst the violence, in response to the violence, we quietly sprinkle the world with this tender presence, creating a mirco-climate of love.
Let’s Build a Room for Hope
Rabbi Miriam Grossman
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Miriam Grossman: Today I need to keep my humanity. And today I need to keep going even without hope. Because hope will come one day.
Last Saturday Morning.
Elana Sztokman
Elana Sztokman: When horror and sadness at the attacks is accompanied by anger at the government.
Poem: How to Pray While the World Burns
Hila Ratzabi
A poem from Hila Ratzabi: The earth will hold you better Than God can.
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Art: "Fractured Woman, 1982" by Anna Walinska
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How do we take care of ourselves—and each other—in simple, practical ways?
Lilith`s Executive Editor, Sarah Seltzer, writes: "There is a middle ground between tending one’s own garden and staffing the barricades 24/7. There is caring beyond your own backyard, caring for your community." Lilith`s Winter 2025 issue offers ideas on where to start. Read it now — 🔗 in bio!
Art by Yaara Eshet
Explore the wide-ranging works of late-artist (and feminist icon) Anna Walinska through May 31st at the Art Students League in NYC. Visit the 🔗 in our bio to read all about Walinska from the POV of her niece, Rosina Rubin, who has ushered her aunt’s work into public view.
Pictured here: Rosina Rubin and Art Students League Curator Esther Moerdler, with Walinska`s self-portrait
