A very interesting development in the fight for agunots’ rights occurred this past Sunday. A group of Orthodox rabbis rallied, along with lay people, outside the home of another Orthodox… Read more »
I have an embarrassing confession: I didn’t vote this past Tuesday. There wasn’t anything major on my local ballot, but I realized I’m still registered at an old address, and… Read more »
Nervous about bringing someone home for Thanksgiving for the first time? You’re not alone!
I’m ready for some smaller government. Now, if you’ve ever met me (or read anything else I’ve written here), this might be a perplexing statement. How do you go from… Read more »
What struck me most upon reading Deborah Siegel’s engaging history of the modern feminist movement, Sisterhood: Interrupted, was the sense of absolute awakening that the feminist revolution of the 1960s… Read more »
Here’s something to lift Melanie’s spirits. Or perhaps anger her further. Though I “defended” Ann Coulter two posts ago from the big whoop about her statements regarding Jews on CNBC’s… Read more »
You probably don’t have to think too hard to guess what my feelings are of the stereotypes of Jewish women as guilt-inducing shrews. I’m not much of a fan, to… Read more »
The back to the land movement – when city folks packed up and moved to rural places to try out their country legs – enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s… Read more »
Do you ever have that thing where you get really involved with your own life for a few days, and you don’t read the newspaper or hit the blogs or… Read more »
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.
Whether you graduated this yesterday or decades ago, it’s never too late to celebrate our mentors! Tag us in a photo with your feminist mentor--we’ll reshare it!
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In this moment, we need independent, intimate, and intergenerational conversation more than ever before, where we can show up simply as we are, in all of our contradictions and complexities.
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Gila Axelrod writes about chronic illness, Jewish holidays, and the beauty in building your own rituals. Read it now at the link in bio!
