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Bronx-born poet Naomi Replansky, now 91 years old, reads her poems in this exclusive Lilith podcast. Download Podcast She has published the collections Ring Song (Scribners, 1952; a National Book… Read more »
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Angel's Landing, Nancy Sitting
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Last year I visited Zion National Park in Utah as part of the great road trip that exists on Interstate 15 between Pocatello and San Diego, where my parents now… Read more »
Rapunzel, Rapunzel
Amy Stone
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Sacred Female, Sacred You
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Whitewashed, faded walls. Oddly set stones. Paintings on cave walls. Figurines of busty women with hamentasch loincloths. However many religious layers exist beneath the particular spot of ground you’re standing… Read more »
Our Bodies–As We See Them, and As Others Do
Susan Weidman Schneider
This season has seen a crazy explosion of outdated and limiting images of women, often specifically Jewish women. Is it the recession? Does economic anxiety cause people to unleash these… Read more »
Say “Cheese”
Maya Bernstein
Virginia Heffernan, in her piece Framing Childhood in this week’s New York Times Magazine, writes, with only a hint of sarcasm, that “we form families in the Internet age so… Read more »
Culture Smash
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This past Sunday Temple Emanuel celebrated Purim with a Megillah reading, followed by a performance by the KlezMormons. The KlezMormons are an ensemble from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah,… Read more »
Desert archaeology in Idaho
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I have a long-lost camp alum on Facebook who lives in Tel Aviv and keeps taunting us about how he’s at the beach enjoying the sunshine. But, I love snow.… Read more »
If I Only Had a Luge
Maya Bernstein
The winter Olympics are approaching. Hooray! Something to watch on TV besides reality shows. I’m a product of the TV of the 80s. Fraggle Rock, Growing Pains, and MacGyver. Now,… Read more »
Nancy Goodman
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Soon after my move to Pocatello, Idaho from Chicago, Illinois, a “fallen Mormon” boyfriend who knew more about Judaism than I did inspired me to visit the nearest Barnes and… Read more »
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BIG things are happening at Lilith—and you`ll want you to be part of them! As Lilith`s community grows, our commitment to bringing you groundbreaking, independent Jewish feminist journalism and programs continues to grow and flourish.
Now, for the first time in 13 years, we`re adjusting our subscription pricing so we can continue to bring you Lilith`s unique writing and thinking. As a valued reader, right now you now have a limited-time opportunity to lock in our current rate before the rate increases on May 1st.
What Does a Lilith Subscription Include?
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The egg on the seder plate doesn`t get enough love. Here’s a creative activity to accompany a Lilith Passover classic, “Ode to the Passover Egg,” by Rabbi Susan Schnur. Link in bio.
The egg on the seder plate doesn`t get enough love. Here’s a creative activity to accompany a Lilith Passover classic, “Ode to the Passover Egg,” by Rabbi Susan Schnur. Link in bio.
In honor of Pesach and to honor the brazen Biblical midwives Puah and Shifra, this week`s Woman of the Week is Lynn Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Following the ancient Jewish tradition of Reproductive Rights activism, Paltrow has advocated for the rights of incarcerated pregnant people. Chag Sameach!
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#feminism #Lilith #judaism #midwife #puah #shifra #pesach #passover #chagsameach #WotW
In honor of Pesach and to honor the brazen Biblical midwives Puah and Shifra, this week`s Woman of the Week is Lynn Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Following the ancient Jewish tradition of Reproductive Rights activism, Paltrow has advocated for the rights of incarcerated pregnant people. Chag Sameach!
Who would you like to see next?
#feminism #Lilith #judaism #midwife #puah #shifra #pesach #passover #chagsameach #WotW
Has there been a Passover in your lifetime where the holiday’s rituals and themes echoed the current moment so closely? Right now we see many Pharaoh figures whose powers grow with each passing day. And we have yet to identify a Moses, backed by divine might and moral certainty, to lead us to freedom.
Each year, we are commanded to imagine ourselves in the Exodus story. Would you have survived? Would you have fought back? Would you have lost faith in humanity?
The seder is full of visceral symbols of blood and tears, death and loss, though the Passover sacrifice, when our faith demanded we slaughter animals to show our devotion, feels archaic and distant. Yet lately we see more starkly than ever before those sacrificed by our society––women persecuted for miscarrying; immigrants seized on American streets; aid workers, healers, researchers forced to abandon their work; the hostages still in captivity after 550 days; the war-weary, traumatized families in Israel, Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, West Bank; Palestinian mothers facing the onslaught of bombing. And this is not the whole list. But rather than allow our hearts to harden, they break again and again.
How do we approach the concept of sacrifice with gratitude and not fear? In Lilith`s latest issue, Leah Kahn writes, “We might think the sacrifices are simply about the items being offered, but they are more than that; spiritually, they’re about offering up ourselves. And this offer of oneself requires a great deal of faith.”
Perhaps there is no one Moses coming to save us. Rescue may be in our hands, in our communities, and in whatever we ourselves can offer up.
Has there been a Passover in your lifetime where the holiday’s rituals and themes echoed the current moment so closely? Right now we see many Pharaoh figures whose powers grow with each passing day. And we have yet to identify a Moses, backed by divine might and moral certainty, to lead us to freedom.
Each year, we are commanded to imagine ourselves in the Exodus story. Would you have survived? Would you have fought back? Would you have lost faith in humanity?
The seder is full of visceral symbols of blood and tears, death and loss, though the Passover sacrifice, when our faith demanded we slaughter animals to show our devotion, feels archaic and distant. Yet lately we see more starkly than ever before those sacrificed by our society––women persecuted for miscarrying; immigrants seized on American streets; aid workers, healers, researchers forced to abandon their work; the hostages still in captivity after 550 days; the war-weary, traumatized families in Israel, Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, West Bank; Palestinian mothers facing the onslaught of bombing. And this is not the whole list. But rather than allow our hearts to harden, they break again and again.
How do we approach the concept of sacrifice with gratitude and not fear? In Lilith`s latest issue, Leah Kahn writes, “We might think the sacrifices are simply about the items being offered, but they are more than that; spiritually, they’re about offering up ourselves. And this offer of oneself requires a great deal of faith.”
Perhaps there is no one Moses coming to save us. Rescue may be in our hands, in our communities, and in whatever we ourselves can offer up.
Looking for a meaningful feminist ritual to bring to your seder? We`ve got you!
The idea of a "Miriam`s Goblet" originated with Stephanie Loo Ritari as a counterweight to Elijah`s cup. Both the original ritual—written by Ritari, Matia Angelou and Janet Berkenfield—and Rabbi Susan Schnur`s adaptation were published in the Spring 1992 Issue of Lilith.
What does Miriam`s Goblet mean to you this year? Healing in its broadest sense? Embracing the process—the trek through the wilderness, as opposed to phallic goal ((the arrival at Canaan)? Or maybe, as Rabbi Schnur wrote over thirty years ago, Miriam`s Goblet represents the magic of touch: that one can sometimes touch and heal, be touched and heal.
May next year find us still upon our journeys.
Looking for a meaningful feminist ritual to bring to your seder? We`ve got you!
The idea of a "Miriam`s Goblet" originated with Stephanie Loo Ritari as a counterweight to Elijah`s cup. Both the original ritual—written by Ritari, Matia Angelou and Janet Berkenfield—and Rabbi Susan Schnur`s adaptation were published in the Spring 1992 Issue of Lilith.
What does Miriam`s Goblet mean to you this year? Healing in its broadest sense? Embracing the process—the trek through the wilderness, as opposed to phallic goal ((the arrival at Canaan)? Or maybe, as Rabbi Schnur wrote over thirty years ago, Miriam`s Goblet represents the magic of touch: that one can sometimes touch and heal, be touched and heal.
May next year find us still upon our journeys.
