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From Khartoum to Jerusalem

A Sudanese refugee child in Israel. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski It is 1,128 miles from Khartoum, Sudan to Jerusalem, Israel. Many Sudanese travel at least this distance to reach Israel in… Read more »

Voting and "the Israel issue"

I had the extreme pleasure of being hosted this past weekend by an older couple—a good friend’s grandparents—who found me confusing and, I hope, fairly enjoyable. I think they were… Read more »

Riot Kitchen

The secret to the feminist revolution is in a vegan cupcake. Brooklyn born, Isa Moskowitz, is the founder and co-host of the Post Punk Kitchen, a public access cooking show… Read more »

Interview with Leora Kahn

I had the opportunity to interview Leora Kahn, the editor of Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide.” This recently published book covers the last two decades of conflict in… Read more »

"Orthodox Feminist": An Oxymoron?

The current issue of Lilith magazine includes a conversation between our own Melanie Weiss and London-based author Sally Berkovic, titled “Orthodox and Feminist: The Dreaded ‘F’ Word,” about this year’s… Read more »

Divestment as Tzedaka

The Torah mandates that every Jew give a portion of her harvest to the poor as a form of tzedaka (Leviticus 19:9-10). Whereas our ancestors reaped their annual harvest, many… Read more »

Be a part of the story

This Yom Hashoah, read the experience of a Jewish teen in Vilna in her own words.

In early 2017, almost 180,000 pages of lost Yiddish documents were discovered, mothballed and hidden in a Lithuanian church. Poignantly, these were pieces from a @yivoinstitute writing contest for Jewish teens in Europe, written and submitted before the Nazi incursion started. These young people, documenting their lives, had no idea of what was to come.

In the summer of 2018, @krinsteincartoons traveled to Vilnius/Vilna to bring six anonymous pre-WWII teenage autobiographies to life— using their words and his pictures. Here’s a snapshot of one of them, a middle-school Vilna girl he dubbed “The Rule Breaker.”

This Yom Hashoah, read the experience of a Jewish teen in Vilna in her own words.

In early 2017, almost 180,000 pages of lost Yiddish documents were discovered, mothballed and hidden in a Lithuanian church. Poignantly, these were pieces from a @yivoinstitute writing contest for Jewish teens in Europe, written and submitted before the Nazi incursion started. These young people, documenting their lives, had no idea of what was to come.

In the summer of 2018, @krinsteincartoons traveled to Vilnius/Vilna to bring six anonymous pre-WWII teenage autobiographies to life— using their words and his pictures. Here’s a snapshot of one of them, a middle-school Vilna girl he dubbed “The Rule Breaker.”
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Our inner fears spoken out loud. 

From the Lilith archives, Rachel Hall on passing down her mother's stories, but not her nightmares. 

Read it now at Lilith.org.

Our inner fears spoken out loud.

From the Lilith archives, Rachel Hall on passing down her mother`s stories, but not her nightmares.

Read it now at Lilith.org.
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"What My Mother's Ashes Revealed ," by Julia Silverberg Németh. A must-read, linked in our bio. ❤️

"What My Mother`s Ashes Revealed ," by Julia Silverberg Németh. A must-read, linked in our bio. ❤️ ...

Did you know that Jewish women were involved in all forms and formations of the resistance against the Nazis? 

In Lilith's Spring 2009 Issue, German journalist and filmmaker Ingrid Strobl uncovers the personal narratives of women who won quiet, small-scale victories against the viciousness of Nazis and their collaborators. Though their work has often been left out of official histories of the era, these were women who took their own instincts and impulses seriously, and acted on them.

Read it now at Lilith.org.

Portrait of Eta Wrobel from @jewishpartisans.

Did you know that Jewish women were involved in all forms and formations of the resistance against the Nazis?

In Lilith`s Spring 2009 Issue, German journalist and filmmaker Ingrid Strobl uncovers the personal narratives of women who won quiet, small-scale victories against the viciousness of Nazis and their collaborators. Though their work has often been left out of official histories of the era, these were women who took their own instincts and impulses seriously, and acted on them.

Read it now at Lilith.org.

Portrait of Eta Wrobel from @jewishpartisans.
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shabbat shalom! what's the first piece of chametz you ate this week once Passover ended?

shabbat shalom! what`s the first piece of chametz you ate this week once Passover ended? ...