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On Tuesday I will fly to Uganda to spend the fall semester studying and traveling. This new beginning also marks the end of my brief stint as a Lilith Blogger.… Read more »
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Political Theology, Take Two
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So I spent many hours this week watching the recent CNN special, God’s Warriors (on YouTube, where you can find it, too). Whew! What a complex and complicated set of… Read more »
Underwear With a Conscience, But No Real Wit
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While there are plenty of serious, discussion-worthy things going on in Israel this week, I’m going to take a walk on the lighter side and turn to a more… Read more »
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I’ve been into polls lately. I don’t mean the political polls concerning the upcoming election (though I’ve been keeping an eye on those as well). I mean informal polls where… Read more »
Genocide Olympics?
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Mia Farrow is an active part of the “Dream for Darfur” campaign. Officially, the Olympic Games are a series of sport competitions, but unofficially they are a global arena for… Read more »
Political Theology, Take One
Mel Weiss
You know when you spend a lot of time thinking about something, and then suddenly it seems to be everywhere? I’ve had that feeling recently. First, Ruth Wisse’s almost-out book,… Read more »
On Jewish Men and Jewish Women
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I’ve spent the past few days defending Jewish women against all sorts of stereotypes and criticisms, and, frankly, I’m exhausted. I personally know so many amazing Jewish women, and I… Read more »
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Last week I went home to Chicago, and boy was the living easy. My parents escorted me home from the airport where my mother’s gazpacho and a roasted potato frittata… Read more »
From Khartoum to Jerusalem
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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"
Mel Weiss
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Revisiting the evocative art from "Our World After Oct. 7" section in Lilith`s Winter 2023-2024. Sometimes art can capture what our words struggle to articulate.
Slide One: Art by @yaaraeshet
Slide Two: "Untitled" (2023) by @ronit_porat1
Slide Three: “Hug” (2022, oil on paper) by @hovavyael
Slide Four: "Portrait of Vivian Silver" (2023) by @eden.spivak
Revisiting the evocative art from "Our World After Oct. 7" section in Lilith`s Winter 2023-2024. Sometimes art can capture what our words struggle to articulate.
Slide One: Art by @yaaraeshet
Slide Two: "Untitled" (2023) by @ronit_porat1
Slide Three: “Hug” (2022, oil on paper) by @hovavyael
Slide Four: "Portrait of Vivian Silver" (2023) by @eden.spivak
It’s okay to take the yartzeit (anniversary) of Oct. 7 to just mourn.
Illustration by @katzcomics.
It’s okay to take the yartzeit (anniversary) of Oct. 7 to just mourn.
Illustration by @katzcomics.
Shabbat shalom. We just need a moment to rest our heads...
Photograph from Library of Congress titled "Jew[ish] New Year – praying on Brooklyn Bridge [i.e. Williamsburg Bridge]."
Shabbat shalom. We just need a moment to rest our heads...
Photograph from Library of Congress titled "Jew[ish] New Year – praying on Brooklyn Bridge [i.e. Williamsburg Bridge]."
With the High Holidays now upon us and the first yahrzeit of October 7th just around the corner, many of us are preparing to enter difficult, and often uncomfortable, conversations — whether it be at home, school, or work. How do we even begin to transform these moments into meaningful opportunities for connection and learning, rather than letting them become yet another source of tension and pain?
Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, held its second Jewish Poetry Conference this past July and their board wrestled with the same question. They shared: “At the conference we wanted to do what we hope to do in our writing, which is to name what is real and challenging before us, and to go toward it with nuance and curiosity, to the best of our ability.“
For Lilith, they shared the methodology and template used to facilitate the conversation in the hope that more of us will be willing and able to name the pain we are facing, even if we disagree about the causes and the ways to alleviate that pain, and engage in meaningful, heartfelt, open dialogue. Discover this approach now at lilith.org — link in bio.
With the High Holidays now upon us and the first yahrzeit of October 7th just around the corner, many of us are preparing to enter difficult, and often uncomfortable, conversations — whether it be at home, school, or work. How do we even begin to transform these moments into meaningful opportunities for connection and learning, rather than letting them become yet another source of tension and pain?
Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, held its second Jewish Poetry Conference this past July and their board wrestled with the same question. They shared: “At the conference we wanted to do what we hope to do in our writing, which is to name what is real and challenging before us, and to go toward it with nuance and curiosity, to the best of our ability.“
For Lilith, they shared the methodology and template used to facilitate the conversation in the hope that more of us will be willing and able to name the pain we are facing, even if we disagree about the causes and the ways to alleviate that pain, and engage in meaningful, heartfelt, open dialogue. Discover this approach now at lilith.org — link in bio.
On the cusp of 5785 as it seems more horrible news arrives with every hour, we are reminded by Marcia Falk on the purpose of prayer — to express our genuine hopes and needs. What prayers are you turning to right now?
Originally published in her germinal “Book of Blessings” and in Lilith’s Fall 1995 issue.
On the cusp of 5785 as it seems more horrible news arrives with every hour, we are reminded by Marcia Falk on the purpose of prayer — to express our genuine hopes and needs. What prayers are you turning to right now?
Originally published in her germinal “Book of Blessings” and in Lilith’s Fall 1995 issue.
