In one of those seemingly random convergences of synergies, the current issues of both Lilith and the online Jewish women’s mag 614 feature articles on JDate. In different ways, the… Read more »
Judy Blume turns 70 next week, and The Guardian profiles the author for the occasion. “I’d imagined her as a busty Jewish mamma, dishing out advice in gigantic, homely portions,”… Read more »
I am a mother. I am other things too, of course: a woman, a wife to M, a sister, a daughter, a friend, an American, a Jew, an editor, a… Read more »
Some writers would say I’ve officially made it. No, I’m not making a million dollars a year as a freelance writer yet (and word on the street is, I probably… Read more »
There is much—much, much—to think about, as we sit during one Super day, anticipating another. (Non-US blog readers: It’s Super Bowl Sunday, meaning there’s a lot of yelling in the… Read more »
On Friday morning, I was cooking for Shabbat and cleaning my Jerusalem apartment while listening to a radio station that shall remained unnamed. While I cut up cauliflower, I listened… Read more »
A new collection of Hannah Arendt’s writings on Jewish subjects is about to be published, cleverly titled “The Jewish Writings.” Arendt wasn’t known primarily as a Jewish writer (even though… Read more »
This week saw the breaking story—sorry—of Gazans blasting their way into Egypt to buy such advanced commodities as…milk. The world at large seems to have collectively looked at this with… Read more »
There’s been lots of hype surrounding the announcement of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s new ordination program that would ordain Orthodox women as rabbis. But the Orthodox she-rabbi is really just… Read more »
Tamar Sagiv, an Israeli-born New York-based cellist and composer, recently released her debut album “Shades of Mourning.” The album includes nine original compositions, each uniquely touching on themes of grief. Inspired by the death of her grandmother, the album is both about personal and universal emotion.
Find listings for this album and other new Jewish feminist music, art, theater productions and more in the Happening section of Lilith`s current issue!
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“Among the men who will oppose the presence of women on the bimah will be many who fear that a menstruating woman will contaminate them and the sacred objects on the bimah, especially the Torah. Others… will be awed and humiliated by the woman whose competence in religious matters clearly exceeds their own.”
Just 50 years ago, the Jewish Theological Seminary wouldn’t let women be Conservative rabbis. They offered justifications like the one above from JTS’s Chairman of the Department of Pastoral Psychiatry, Mortimer Ostow.
In Lilith’s Spring/Summer 1977, one of Lilith’s founding mothers, Amy Stone, reports on the Seminary’s refusal to ordain women as rabbis—and the tireless efforts of women like Sandy Levine and Lynn Gottlieb to show that a woman’s place is on the bimah.
Read at 🔗 in bio.
📸 by Bill Ashe and Martin Kharrazi
(FYI: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb became the first woman ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement in 1981. Sandy Levine, now Rabbi Kinneret Shiryon, was ordained by the Reform movement in 1981 and became the first woman rabbi in Israel.)
What is the next unjust barrier we need to break?
What Jewish practices, ancient and emerging, can help us meet this moment?
Lilith is excited to partner on the @bigjewishgathering—a bold new experiment in Jewish spiritual and cultural life. Join us for a two-day spiritual laboratory on January 24–25 in Brooklyn where emerging and established Jewish leaders will co-create a Judaism that meets this moment — one that is rooted, relevant, and alive.
Read @gxslosberg`s profile of @lovingfife at 🔗 in bio from Lilith`s Summer 2021 issue— and then learn from her next weekend!
We are excited to welcome the fifth cohort of The New 40, Lilith`s fellowship for emerging Jewish feminist writers over 40 (this year, over 45)!
Make it loud in the comments for these 11* new participants!
And stay tuned for new writing from New 40 alums at publishing soon at Lilith Online...
*Two participants have chosen to keep their identity private at this time
