Mel Weiss
There’s lots to comment upon this week—especially as the primaries start stacking up (McCain in South Carolina say what?!)—but in honor of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January… Read more »
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The Winter Issue is Up!
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Lilith’s Winter 2007-2008 issue is out, and we want to hear your thoughts! Please make sure you say what article you’re responding to, and leave your comments below. (If you’re… Read more »
Running Commentary
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I was jogging in Jerusalem on Rehov Yaffo on Saturday night when I was harassed by a hasid. Well, I’m not sure if it was really harassment proper (by which… Read more »
Jewish Metadata: Suggestions for the Womb
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Is there any other ethnic or religious group that devotes as much time, effort, and money to thinking about itself as the Jewish community does? As a people, we are… Read more »
Women, News, Media and Politics: I’m Exhausted
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Wow—has it ever been a week for women, politics and the media. It started with the unthinkable—Hillary Clinton showed emotion. (I’m not going to remark upon the blood-pressure-raising aspects of… Read more »
Meeting of Minds
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Last night I had the good fortune of attending a completely packed lecture at the 92nd Street Y called, “Hedonistic, Healthy, and Green: Can We Have it All?” Featuring Michael… Read more »
Election Madness
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I had the amazing opportunity this weekend to spend my time with a group of friends. We declared ourselves officially off the clock. And what did we do? We talked… Read more »
Orthodox Jewish Women Wear Burkas — and Their Men Don't Like It!
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It seems made-up, but it’s not. A group of haredi women in Israel have taken a cue from their Muslim neighbors and taken modesty to new heights (for Jews), donning… Read more »
Vaera: Plagued by the Parsha
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I knew it was a mistake to take on so much Torah reading this week. I ought to have learned my lesson by now. But when the minyan gabbai (who… Read more »
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How can we, as feminists, support Epstein’s survivors and resist their revictimization?
Sarah Seltzer, Lilith’s Executive Editor, discusses this with Lindsay Beyerstein, an award-winning investigative journalist who covered the billionaire-pedophile saga. Their full conversation will be in the next issue of Lilith. Subscribe at 🔗 in bio.
Anna Walinska was a bold artist ahead of her time. Her niece, Rosina Rubin, writes at Lilith Online: "When she was in her final days, my aunt told me that she was not afraid to die but that she needed my help."
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On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. We also honor the reverberations of this trauma, passed down from generation to generation.
In “My View from the 4th Generation,” Anna Štičková reflects on how, when she was growing up in a secular Czech Jewish family, her consciousness of being Jewish came through two people: her “Uncle” Hary, who visited her family from Holland and had a strange number tattooed on his arm, and her grandmother’s stories about Evicka, one of the people who did not come back from the war. Eva was six when she had to go to the gas chamber.
Read it now in Lilith’s latest issue — 🔗 in bio.
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) begins tonight. Here is what psychologist and rabbi Susan Schnur saw and heard—and understood—when in 1991 she reported for Lilith on the first-ever gathering of Jews who were hidden as children during the Holocaust. Her rendering of their excruciating experience of concealing or never knowing one`s origin or identity was so scrupulously accurate, and her conclusions so profound, that at the 25th anniversary gathering of this group they invited Susan Schnur to read her report aloud.
35 years later, the questions these Holocaust survivors raise about identity and safety feel close and urgent. Read the report now — 🔗 in bio.
Ahhhh the ‘90s 💿🦋🌈
Did you know all of Lilith’s issues from the past 50 years are available online? 🔗 in bio!
