Mel Weiss
I was asked to explain two things this weekend, and the more I think about them, the more I wonder how related they might be, and how useful it may… Read more »
Are Affiliations Necessary?
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"Orthodox Feminist": An Oxymoron?
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The current issue of Lilith magazine includes a conversation between our own Melanie Weiss and London-based author Sally Berkovic, titled “Orthodox and Feminist: The Dreaded ‘F’ Word,” about this year’s… Read more »
Food, Love, Blogs…and Envy
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I have a confession. I am addicted to food blogs. Every other day or so I start to itch, craving the updates from my blogger friends at Orangette, Chocolate and… Read more »
Divestment as Tzedaka
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The Torah mandates that every Jew give a portion of her harvest to the poor as a form of tzedaka (Leviticus 19:9-10). Whereas our ancestors reaped their annual harvest, many… Read more »
Democracy on (Internet) Prime Time
Mel Weiss
I’m all about free video clips on YouTube, but the recent Democratic debates constitute a category of their own. CNN and YouTube teamed up to bring questions to the candidates… Read more »
A Woman's Place…Is in the Workplace
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A Woman’s Place…Is in the Workplace An article in last week’s Contra Costa Times discusses what some consider to be the “stained-glass ceiling” for female clergy in many religious denominations:… Read more »
When Food Attacks: Food Safety and the Farm Bill
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This week, a couple in Indiana and two children in Texas were hospitalized with serious outbreaks of botulism. In both cases, the sickness is most likely tied to tainted chili… Read more »
Midwifery as Activism
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Fleeing the Janjawid isn’t the only way that Darfurian women are fighting for their lives—they are also struggling to prevent maternal mortality by becoming midwives. Sudan has the fifth-highest maternal… Read more »
On Religion, Politics and Middle Eastern Outsiders
Mel Weiss
One big story in the international department this week is sure to be Turkey’s recent election. I’ll own up to a minor obsession with Turkey’s history and politics, but I… Read more »
What I Learned at the Hadassah Convention
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This week I had the privilege of attending the closing brunch and plenary session of the 93rd Annual Hadassah National Convention, in which newly elected president Nancy Falchuk was officially… 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!
