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Lilith’s Winter 2007-2008 issue is out, and we want to hear your thoughts! Please make sure you say what article you’re responding to, and leave your comments below. (If you’re… Read more »
The Winter Issue is Up!
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Running Commentary
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I was jogging in Jerusalem on Rehov Yaffo on Saturday night when I was harassed by a hasid. Well, I’m not sure if it was really harassment proper (by which… Read more »
Jewish Metadata: Suggestions for the Womb
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Is there any other ethnic or religious group that devotes as much time, effort, and money to thinking about itself as the Jewish community does? As a people, we are… Read more »
Women, News, Media and Politics: I’m Exhausted
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Wow—has it ever been a week for women, politics and the media. It started with the unthinkable—Hillary Clinton showed emotion. (I’m not going to remark upon the blood-pressure-raising aspects of… Read more »
Meeting of Minds
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Last night I had the good fortune of attending a completely packed lecture at the 92nd Street Y called, “Hedonistic, Healthy, and Green: Can We Have it All?” Featuring Michael… Read more »
Election Madness
Mel Weiss
I had the amazing opportunity this weekend to spend my time with a group of friends. We declared ourselves officially off the clock. And what did we do? We talked… Read more »
Orthodox Jewish Women Wear Burkas — and Their Men Don't Like It!
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It seems made-up, but it’s not. A group of haredi women in Israel have taken a cue from their Muslim neighbors and taken modesty to new heights (for Jews), donning… Read more »
Vaera: Plagued by the Parsha
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I knew it was a mistake to take on so much Torah reading this week. I ought to have learned my lesson by now. But when the minyan gabbai (who… Read more »
Jewish Women Sing Their Songs Out Loud, Albeit Different Songs
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What could possibly shock Hollywood, California, anymore? Robin Garbose is hoping a dose of modesty will do the trick. She is about to stage what is probably the first-ever Hollywood… Read more »
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Excited to read “I Am You” by @victoriawriter and “The Mother: A Graphic Memoir” by @weirdmomart that just arrived in the Lilith office.
At Lilith Online, @ruthbeharauthor connects the inhumanity of today`s deportations with yesterday`s expulsions.
She writes, "In this vehemently anti-immigrant moment, as deportations continue, I remember my ancestors expelled from Spain over 500 years ago, an event so traumatic that the memory of how it hurt to be forced into homelessness is still vivid today.
I shudder to think how shocked they’d be to know that expulsions haven’t ended."
Read it at link in bio.
Our hope every morning when we wake up.
“I want to worry about boring things” by @madebyelliebklyn seen in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
In honor of National Honor Our LGBTQ+ Elders Day, we are revisiting a powerful piece from Lilith Online by Carmel Tanaka. Read "Caring For, and Learning From, Queer and Trans Elders" now at lilith.org — link in bio!
Image caption: Carmel Tanaka and her mother, Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka, at a “Sharing Queer History” panel at the Museum of North Vancouver in 2023.
As we approach graduation season and prepare to say goodbye to our wonderful class of interns, we have milestones on our minds, both bitter and sweet ones. We have also been contemplating how Jewish tradition and ritual–or feminist twists on tradition and ritual–can guide and ground us during moments of change, struggle, and triumph.
Milestones mark our growth and progress through time. From classic milestones that tend to happen in spring and summer, like graduations and weddings, to more personal changes, tragedies and triumphs, like moving and surgery, Jewish feminists have turned to Lilith to shared their rituals and reflections. The pages of our magazine have become a place where we mark our personal and communal resilience.
📸: “Accompanying the Hasidic bride to the wedding canopy, Brooklyn, 1980s” by @joanrothphotography, published in Lilith’s Winter 2020-2021 Issue.
