Maya Bernstein
When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I became prey to the endless array of children’s gear, clothing, and toys marketed to parents as if they would be negligent… Read more »
Fertile Chaos
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Digital Judaica
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While there aren’t many Jews living in the hilly, sagebrush and juniper desert of Southeastern Idaho, something happened a few years ago that changed the way I was Jewish forever,… Read more »
Giving to Haiti: Some Suggestions
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Click through the links below to donate to Haitian relief efforts: American Jewish Committee in partnership with IsrAID American Jewish World Service B’nai B’rith International American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee… Read more »
Interview with Senior Editor Susan Schnur
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Associate Editor Melanie Weiss had an opportunity to sit down with Senior Editor Susan Schnur to discuss the Winter 2009-10 issue and its compelling theme, Our Bodies: It’s Complicated. Listen… Read more »
Breast Cancer Advice Refusenik
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In the wake of the recent controversy and confusion over proposed new guidelines cutting down on how often one should have a mammogram to screen for breast cancer, “Be Vigilant!”… Read more »
Accidental Maverick
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A few people who read my last post, “Jews as Gentiles?”, referred to the content as “edgy.” And here I was, hoping I was being nice enough. So maybe I’m… Read more »
Etz Chayim: Stepping off the Party Line
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This week I have been thinking about what we choose to reveal and conceal about ourselves when we do political work. We’ve all heard the endless debates about “political correctness.”… Read more »
Jews as gentiles?
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Pocatello, Idaho is not my first experience being a distinct religious minority in a small town. The first time I became known as everyone’s only Jewish friend was in DeKalb,… Read more »
Up in the Air (With Children)
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I used to love to fly. I would request a window seat and forget that I was in a tiny claustrophobic cabin and lose myself to the clouds, to the… Read more »
Jewish Community Involvement…and Skiing
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My first job after college was at a therapeutic group home for adolescent girls. This group home, along with many other family and children services, was operated by the Jewish… Read more »
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"I knew his seder was not just a tribute to his grandfather, an affirmation of his own history. It was a refutation of that feeling of not belonging. It was about his experience of being Jewish, saying out loud that being Jewish mattered. Who was I to insist on a place at the head of that table?"
Re-reading Jennifer Burleigh`s "A Place At the Table" as we stare down Pesach—linked in our bio.
Illustration by @sofinaydenova in Lilith`s Fall 2017 issue.
"I knew his seder was not just a tribute to his grandfather, an affirmation of his own history. It was a refutation of that feeling of not belonging. It was about his experience of being Jewish, saying out loud that being Jewish mattered. Who was I to insist on a place at the head of that table?"
Re-reading Jennifer Burleigh`s "A Place At the Table" as we stare down Pesach—linked in our bio.
Illustration by @sofinaydenova in Lilith`s Fall 2017 issue.
Still mourning the loss of cartoonist Trina Robbins, we turn to her words in Lilith.
Cover art for "A Minyen Yidn" created by Barbara “Willy” Mendes.
Still mourning the loss of cartoonist Trina Robbins, we turn to her words in Lilith.
Cover art for "A Minyen Yidn" created by Barbara “Willy” Mendes.
Where is your heart right now?
At the seder we say, "כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל, כָּל דִצְרִיךְ יֵיתֵי וְיִפְסַח"—All who are hungry, let them come and eat. All who are in need, let them come celebrate Passover with us.
As we approach Passover, our hearts are with the hostages and their families--may they be liberated soon and return safely, with the people of Gaza facing desolation & hunger, and with the caregivers everywhere who are holding their children closer with every bomb overhead, and every scare, and every threat.
Art by @yaaraeshet featured in the Winter 2023-2024 Issue.
Where is your heart right now?
At the seder we say, "כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל, כָּל דִצְרִיךְ יֵיתֵי וְיִפְסַח"—All who are hungry, let them come and eat. All who are in need, let them come celebrate Passover with us.
As we approach Passover, our hearts are with the hostages and their families--may they be liberated soon and return safely, with the people of Gaza facing desolation & hunger, and with the caregivers everywhere who are holding their children closer with every bomb overhead, and every scare, and every threat.
Art by @yaaraeshet featured in the Winter 2023-2024 Issue.
shabbat shalom 🤍
to everyone starting their Passover prep in earnest--soak in the bliss of these flowers first. you`ve got this!
shabbat shalom 🤍
to everyone starting their Passover prep in earnest--soak in the bliss of these flowers first. you`ve got this!
Iconic feminist cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins passed away yesterday. She wrote everything from Wonder Woman and The Powerpuff Girls to "From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Female Comics from Teens to Zines" and "A Century of Women Cartoonists"—literally writing the history of women`s comics and mentoring the future. Her amazing comic about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was featured on the 1980 cover of Lilith.
May her memory be a blessing.
Photo One: Trina Robbins at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. Photo by Alan Light.
Photo Two: Robbins at the Jewish Comics Experience this past November at @centerforjewishhistory.
Iconic feminist cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins passed away yesterday. She wrote everything from Wonder Woman and The Powerpuff Girls to "From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Female Comics from Teens to Zines" and "A Century of Women Cartoonists"—literally writing the history of women`s comics and mentoring the future. Her amazing comic about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was featured on the 1980 cover of Lilith.
May her memory be a blessing.
Photo One: Trina Robbins at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. Photo by Alan Light.
Photo Two: Robbins at the Jewish Comics Experience this past November at @centerforjewishhistory.
