Whoa! What a buzz is in the air already this election season! When Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the New York State primaries fell into our hands, it reminded us of a few articles from Lilith’s long history of rigorous reporting on the state of pro-choice politics. For just one example, have a look at editor in chief Susan Weidman Schneider’s 1990 piece, “The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News for Jews.”
It is a time of returning. Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, is upon us. We are in the midst of the Hebrew month of Elul, which, in preparation for… Read more »
What Lilith publishes really has legs! Just look! Check out this item from today’s news, and then read what Lilith said earlier on this very subject. A British soldier led… Read more »
Chelsea Clinton’s looming nuptial festivities have the gossip blogs in a tizzy: what’ll she wear to walk down the aisle? Can mixed-faith marriages work? Who’ll she invite to the ceremony? And, is she really going to convert? Angela Himsel has a few insights into what that might be like, from her frank Lilith article 10 years ago on “What Converts Talk About (When Jews Aren’t Around).”
Welcome back to The Spin Cycle, Lilith’s online forum for media analysis. Racism, sexism, and the real-life political power of modern media played out with a vengeance this week in… Read more »
There was a great cartoon in the New Yorker magazine a couple of weeks ago; it pictures a mother driving with her three kids in the back seat. The kids… Read more »
For my first two years in rabbinical school, I felt pressure to be both a Jewish man and a Jewish woman. I accepted the full gamut of ritual obligation, but never had any conversation around integrating my gender identity into the role of rabbi.
New podcast from the Jewish Women’s Roundtable, a collaboration between Lilith and the Forward’s Sisterhood blog. Here, the Forward’s web editor Gabrielle Birkner talks with Lilith editor in chief Susan… Read more »
Hi again, and welcome back to The Spin Cycle, Lilith’s online forum for media analysis. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Say you’re a man. Say you’re an Israeli man.… Read more »
Hello, friends of the Lilith blog, and welcome to The Spin Cycle! This is Sonia, your friendly neighborhood moderator. I’ll be posting regularly about my thoughts on the media and… Read more »
"When I started this work in 2018, I was a new single mother by choice and had recently experienced the incredible beauty and challenges of this immense rite of passage. Simultaneously I was struck by the isolation, emotional labour and societal devaluing of this role. As a way of documenting this first stage of my experience I set up a camera in my living room to capture raw, vulnerable and spontaneous moments with my newborn child. As both exploration and visual journal, I was curious to see what I would uncover from the process. This process has lead me to wanting to create a new portrait series with other cis/trans people who identify with the role of mothering"--Artist @ellacoopercreates on her project "mother body erasure identity" 🌱
Find the full photo set, linked in bio 🤍
Originally published in Lilith’s Spring 2020 Issue.
"When I started this work in 2018, I was a new single mother by choice and had recently experienced the incredible beauty and challenges of this immense rite of passage. Simultaneously I was struck by the isolation, emotional labour and societal devaluing of this role. As a way of documenting this first stage of my experience I set up a camera in my living room to capture raw, vulnerable and spontaneous moments with my newborn child. As both exploration and visual journal, I was curious to see what I would uncover from the process. This process has lead me to wanting to create a new portrait series with other cis/trans people who identify with the role of mothering"--Artist @ellacoopercreates on her project "mother body erasure identity" 🌱
Find the full photo set, linked in bio 🤍
Originally published in Lilith’s Spring 2020 Issue.
This Mother’s Day feels even more dissonant than usual. There’s a nightmarish distance between the treacly sentiments in ads for flowers and brunch menus and the awful reality for mothers in Gaza unable to ensure their children`s safety or for mothers in Israel like Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son Hersh is still held captive in Gaza. We say it every year––but especially this year: mothers don’t want a card or teddy bear, or breakfast in bed. Mothers want to keep their children safe and fed. Mothers want autonomy over their bodies and affordable, accessible health care.
This Mother’s Day feels even more dissonant than usual. There’s a nightmarish distance between the treacly sentiments in ads for flowers and brunch menus and the awful reality for mothers in Gaza unable to ensure their children`s safety or for mothers in Israel like Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son Hersh is still held captive in Gaza. We say it every year––but especially this year: mothers don’t want a card or teddy bear, or breakfast in bed. Mothers want to keep their children safe and fed. Mothers want autonomy over their bodies and affordable, accessible health care.
This Yom Hashoah, read the experience of a Jewish teen in Vilna in her own words.
In early 2017, almost 180,000 pages of lost Yiddish documents were discovered, mothballed and hidden in a Lithuanian church. Poignantly, these were pieces from a @yivoinstitute writing contest for Jewish teens in Europe, written and submitted before the Nazi incursion started. These young people, documenting their lives, had no idea of what was to come.
In the summer of 2018, @krinsteincartoons traveled to Vilnius/Vilna to bring six anonymous pre-WWII teenage autobiographies to life— using their words and his pictures. Here’s a snapshot of one of them, a middle-school Vilna girl he dubbed “The Rule Breaker.”
This Yom Hashoah, read the experience of a Jewish teen in Vilna in her own words.
In early 2017, almost 180,000 pages of lost Yiddish documents were discovered, mothballed and hidden in a Lithuanian church. Poignantly, these were pieces from a @yivoinstitute writing contest for Jewish teens in Europe, written and submitted before the Nazi incursion started. These young people, documenting their lives, had no idea of what was to come.
In the summer of 2018, @krinsteincartoons traveled to Vilnius/Vilna to bring six anonymous pre-WWII teenage autobiographies to life— using their words and his pictures. Here’s a snapshot of one of them, a middle-school Vilna girl he dubbed “The Rule Breaker.”
Our inner fears spoken out loud.
From the Lilith archives, Rachel Hall on passing down her mother`s stories, but not her nightmares.
Read it now at Lilith.org.
Our inner fears spoken out loud.
From the Lilith archives, Rachel Hall on passing down her mother`s stories, but not her nightmares.
Read it now at Lilith.org.
"What My Mother`s Ashes Revealed ," by Julia Silverberg Németh. A must-read, linked in our bio. ❤️
"What My Mother`s Ashes Revealed ," by Julia Silverberg Németh. A must-read, linked in our bio. ❤️
