Mel Weiss
I had the supreme pleasure and honor of attending a wedding this weekend. It was so lovely, and the couple seemed so happy, that I considered revoking my recent decision… Read more »
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Queen Esther the Vegetarian?
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In this week’s Jerusalem Post, Dr. Richard Schwartz writes: “Queen Esther, the heroine of the Purim story, was a vegetarian while she lived in the palace of King Achashverosh. She… Read more »
Making Noise
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The current issue of American Jewish Life magazine has a feature on “Women Who Rock,” including Sophie Milman, Marissa Nadler, Regina Spektor and Neshama Carlbach. In an introductory essay, Mordechai… Read more »
Putting Ourselves Up for Sale?
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In Suze Orman’s latest PBS special, the personal finance guru exhorts women not to volunteer, not to “put themselves on sale.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because… Read more »
All the News that's Fit to…Something
Mel Weiss
It’s difficult to write about how aggravated you are about the media’s focus on glitz—when they’re supposed to be writing about politics, when it means that, when you’re supposed to… Read more »
Know any Israeli Accountants? Just One Condition…
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In the spirit of “aliyah adventures,” I record here a transcript of a conversation I had this afternoon with an accountant in Jerusalem: “Hello, this is Avrum, returning your call.… Read more »
How 'Bout a Reading List?
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“Be warned,” Ellen Litman writes in Ha’aretz. “The Book of Dahlia is not the kind of book in which a girl gets an incurable brain tumor and learns an important… Read more »
Reflections on International Women's Day
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Saturday March 8th marked 100 years of commemorating International Women’s Day. (Mazel tov IWD!) A lot of people are skeptical of such Days with a capital D, but — like… Read more »
Economies of Scale
Mel Weiss
I feel chastened, somewhat, having written about my ambivilent attitude towards Israel just days before murdered eight students in a yeshiva there. That the yeshiva is associated with the religious… Read more »
Hideous Kinky
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The other night, a friend and I went to a reading at the East Village’s cozy The reading was decidedly unsexy, too self-conscious to be much more than yet another… Read more »
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It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
Read this 💎 from our archives.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
Read this 💎 from our archives.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
Shabbat Shalom 💓
Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
Shabbat Shalom 💓
Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
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Are you still looking for a way to express your appreciation for your seder host? Buy them a gift subscription to Lilith magazine! Lilith brings you fresh ideas, compelling culture-creators, thought-provoking articles, and transformative rituals you’ll find nowhere else.
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