Mel Weiss
I’m all about free video clips on YouTube, but the recent Democratic debates constitute a category of their own. CNN and YouTube teamed up to bring questions to the candidates… Read more »
Democracy on (Internet) Prime Time
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A Woman's Place…Is in the Workplace
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A Woman’s Place…Is in the Workplace An article in last week’s Contra Costa Times discusses what some consider to be the “stained-glass ceiling” for female clergy in many religious denominations:… Read more »
When Food Attacks: Food Safety and the Farm Bill
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This week, a couple in Indiana and two children in Texas were hospitalized with serious outbreaks of botulism. In both cases, the sickness is most likely tied to tainted chili… Read more »
Midwifery as Activism
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Fleeing the Janjawid isn’t the only way that Darfurian women are fighting for their lives—they are also struggling to prevent maternal mortality by becoming midwives. Sudan has the fifth-highest maternal… Read more »
On Religion, Politics and Middle Eastern Outsiders
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One big story in the international department this week is sure to be Turkey’s recent election. I’ll own up to a minor obsession with Turkey’s history and politics, but I… Read more »
What I Learned at the Hadassah Convention
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This week I had the privilege of attending the closing brunch and plenary session of the 93rd Annual Hadassah National Convention, in which newly elected president Nancy Falchuk was officially… Read more »
Not on Our Credit Cards
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These days it seems to me like I could end the genocide in Darfur with a little Internet shopping. For example, I could start by purchasing a Green Day T-shirt… Read more »
Dangerous Bedfellows
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I opened an innocuous-looking email here at the Lilith office last week and found we had been cordially invited to the 2nd Annual Israel/Washington DC Summit sponsored by Christians United… Read more »
The Silver Lining in the Katsav Cloud
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So the verdict, er, that is, the plea bargain, is in. Israel’s now-former president Moshe Katsav, who faced rape charges that could have put him in prison for up to… Read more »
Women and Dough
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“For three transgressions women die in childbirth: for being careless regarding [the laws of] menstruation, the tithe from dough, and kindling the [Sabbath and festival] light.”– Bameh Madlikin / Mishnah… Read more »
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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.”
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.
"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.
shabbat shalom! what`s the first piece of chametz you ate this week once Passover ended?
