I recently returned from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Europe’s premier documentary film festival. It seemed apt, in a city infamous for its offering of everything for sale, to… Read more »
Jewish teens from four major International Jewish Youth Movements have joined forces to end bullying and support LGBTQ Teens. Their goal is to get 18,000 Jews to sign the Jewish Community Pledge to Save Lives by the end of the year. The upcoming issue of Lilith will feature some of the anti-homophobia efforts in the Jewish community, including one for LGBT middle-school students.
I recently took a teacher training program to learn to teach yoga to cancer survivors (if you are so inclined, this is the one to take, IMHO). Tari devoted a large portion of the program to the challenges posed by the “reconstructive surgery” process. It turns out that, in an effort to return women to “femininity” and “normalcy” (not my words), we end up limiting their range of motion.
I was recently a guest at the Corrymeela Residential center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, where, as one of a team leading workshops on facilitating dialogue groups, I used major clips… Read more »
The rabbi reminded the women that even more important than saying brachot was wearing modest clothes. He chastised the women who wear beautiful sheitels (wigs) and railed against tight, short skirts. It is quite extraordinary – women have been part of the twists and turns of Jewish history for thousands of years, but in today’s world they are merely the guardians of the modest hemline.
This week, Jessica Grose and Mark Oppenheimer debated whether or not Jews should own Christmas trees. In their four-part debate, they discussed the social and religious implications of this dilemma.
Welcome to this week’s installment of Lilith’s Link Roundup. Each week we’ll post Jewish and feminist highlights from around the web. If there’s anything you want to be sure we know about, email us or leave a message in the comments section below.
Our upcoming Winter 2010 issue will include a major feature on women & work, including a report on the Jewish communal service wage gap study, conducted by Steve Cohen, and an amazing profile of Sara Horowitz, who started the Freelancers Union.
Recently, Jezebel alerted me to the fact that American Girl was retiring its Revolutionary War doll, Felicity Merriman. I got incredibly sad at the news, although my Felicity doll has… Read more »
Welcome to this week’s installment of Lilith’s Link Roundup. Each week we’ll post Jewish and feminist highlights from around the web. If there’s anything you want to be sure we… Read more »
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Art: "Fractured Woman, 1982" by Anna Walinska
Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page. Join us as a Jewish feminist community of Lilith subscribers* for a writers’ hour facilitated by Lilith’s new editor in chief, novelist Anna Solomon.
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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
How can victims and survivors find justice in a system that routinely fails to protect them?
In April 2025, a Long Island judge awarded over a billion-and-a-half dollars in damages to 107 women who testified in their civil suit that, as children and teenagers, they had been sexually molested by their former pediatrician, Stuart Copperman. Copperman never responded to the 107 individual complaints.
Do the monetary damages awarded help survivors feel whole again? In Lilith’s Fall 2025 issue, one survivor told Alice Sparberg Alexiou: “I want him to say, ‘I confess that I did what these women said. And I apologize.’” Read the full article at 🔗 in bio.
