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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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The Four Questions About Genocide in Darfur
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Asking questions is a core tenet of Judaism. “The Four Questions” during Passover is just one example of how Jews question and analyze our traditions and the world. The genocide… Read more »
Legislating Fairness
Mel Weiss
I’d like to take a moment to talk about American law, and race, and we the (Jewish) people. It came up when the Supreme Court decided that Brown v. The… Read more »
New Data on Agunot Challenge the Cause, But Numbers Are Beside the Point
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Israel’s Rabbinic courts released data last Tuesday that contradict the claims of groups who fight for the cause of agunot [women “chained” to men who won’t grant them a Jewish… Read more »
The Anti-Feminist Diet?
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As a sustainably-conscious foodie, I’ve recently come across a lot of press about “The Localvore Challenge”. The basic gist of the challenge is: wherever you live, attempt to only eat… Read more »
Responding to Rape in Darfur
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To state it crudely, rape is the “trademark” of the current genocide in Darfur, the western region of Sudan. Genocide historians have remarked that although sexual violence has been a… Read more »
Supreme Court to Home Health Workers: Screw You
Mel Weiss
In yet another example of how the U.S. Supreme Court devalues women, we have the settlement of Long Island Care at Home v. Coke, and it is grim. Essentially, the… Read more »
Jew to Jewess: I've Got My Eye on You
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When I started writing about women and Jewish life for the Jewess blog, I was really excited about the opportunity to create discussion about women’s issues in a Jewish context… Read more »
Dinner and a Revolution
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The first time I saw Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party was not at the Brooklyn Museum, where it is currently a featured exhibit, but on spring break at the New… Read more »
Training Our Instincts Toward More Distant Compassion
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Ideally, we would have infinite hours in a day to tikkun olam, help repair the world. In reality, the amount of time we set aside for this mitzvah is limited.… Read more »
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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!
Then, visit the link in our bio to give the gift of Lilith, which includes:
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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!
