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“When I eat a knish, when I drink a chocolate egg cream, when I butter a board of matzoh, I feel connected to my heritage and generations of my family.”
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What is the source of your inner compass? This lunar cycle is here to remind you that you are your own greatest teacher.
Daughters of the Occupation
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Silence has underscored my life, with my grandmother hiding her Russian Jewish past from her daughters and, in turn, my mother hiding it from me until I was eighteen years old.”
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Like so many of you this week, we are returning—to school, to work, to preparing for the new year. We must shrug off the chaotic latitude of summer and resume our now unfamiliar routines—often under a heavy blanket of grief that can be so everpresent, we don’t even realize it’s there.
In the midst of all this, the Jewish month of Elul began on Tuesday. Traditionally, Elul is a time to reflect on the past year as we fast approach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We blow the shofar every day, remember those we have lost and undertake heshbon hanefesh— Hebrew for “an accounting of the soul.” Torn between welcoming and resenting this invitation for introspection, we look to Lilith writers past and present to help us enter Elul. We`ll be sharing our favorite Elul piece all this month.
Shabbat shalom.
Art: "Be Bound Together," @nirittakele.artist (2018), featured in Lilith`s Fall 2020 issue.
Like so many of you this week, we are returning—to school, to work, to preparing for the new year. We must shrug off the chaotic latitude of summer and resume our now unfamiliar routines—often under a heavy blanket of grief that can be so everpresent, we don’t even realize it’s there.
In the midst of all this, the Jewish month of Elul began on Tuesday. Traditionally, Elul is a time to reflect on the past year as we fast approach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We blow the shofar every day, remember those we have lost and undertake heshbon hanefesh— Hebrew for “an accounting of the soul.” Torn between welcoming and resenting this invitation for introspection, we look to Lilith writers past and present to help us enter Elul. We`ll be sharing our favorite Elul piece all this month.
Shabbat shalom.
Art: "Be Bound Together," @nirittakele.artist (2018), featured in Lilith`s Fall 2020 issue.
Want to know what guidance the stars have to offer you during the Jewish month of Elul? 🌒
Head over to lilith.org now to read your monthly horoscope from Gold Herring (@gold.herring) — link in bio! 🌟
Collage by Rebecca Katz (@katzcomics).
Want to know what guidance the stars have to offer you during the Jewish month of Elul? 🌒
Head over to lilith.org now to read your monthly horoscope from Gold Herring (@gold.herring) — link in bio! 🌟
Collage by Rebecca Katz (@katzcomics).
Back to school season is upon us and we are revisiting Abby Fisher’s (@abby.dmf) “Yeshivas, Day Schools, and LGBT Kids” from Lilith’s Fall 2021 issue.
Fisher, an alumna of two Jewish day schools themselves, interviewed 16 students and found a fairly clear narrative: “a new openness from schools, though welcome, is often undermined by bullying, insensitivity, from teachers, and, in particular, the presentation of Jewish content that ignores and/or erases LGBTQ+ identity.”
Read the rest now at lilith.org — link in bio.
Back to school season is upon us and we are revisiting Abby Fisher’s (@abby.dmf) “Yeshivas, Day Schools, and LGBT Kids” from Lilith’s Fall 2021 issue.
Fisher, an alumna of two Jewish day schools themselves, interviewed 16 students and found a fairly clear narrative: “a new openness from schools, though welcome, is often undermined by bullying, insensitivity, from teachers, and, in particular, the presentation of Jewish content that ignores and/or erases LGBTQ+ identity.”
Read the rest now at lilith.org — link in bio.
Write, read, learn & celebrate with Lilith this September. We have an amazing lineup of virtual and in-person events:
🍎 Thursday, September 12, 8 pm ET: Join Lilith with @jewishwomensarchive in conversation with sarahseltzer, executive editor of Lilith magazine and author of The Singer Sisters.
🍎 Thursday, September 26, 8 pm ET: In this Lilith writing workshop with poet, fiction writer and children’s book author Lesléa Newman, we will practice using observation, memory, and imagination to unlock those memories and explore emotional truths of our lives.
🍎 Friday, September 27: Three feminist foremothers—Susan Weidman Schneider, Lori Lefkovitz and Betsy Teutsch— discuss Jewish feminism in scholarship, theology and practice in this special archive celebration at @brandeisuniversity.
🍎 Sunday, September 29: Come visit Lilith at the @bkbookfest‘s Literary Marketplace. Meet Lilith staff & writers, receive complimentary copies of Lilith magazine, and enjoy a Jewish feminist art project.
Go to link in bio for all the event details.
Write, read, learn & celebrate with Lilith this September. We have an amazing lineup of virtual and in-person events:
🍎 Thursday, September 12, 8 pm ET: Join Lilith with @jewishwomensarchive in conversation with sarahseltzer, executive editor of Lilith magazine and author of The Singer Sisters.
🍎 Thursday, September 26, 8 pm ET: In this Lilith writing workshop with poet, fiction writer and children’s book author Lesléa Newman, we will practice using observation, memory, and imagination to unlock those memories and explore emotional truths of our lives.
🍎 Friday, September 27: Three feminist foremothers—Susan Weidman Schneider, Lori Lefkovitz and Betsy Teutsch— discuss Jewish feminism in scholarship, theology and practice in this special archive celebration at @brandeisuniversity.
🍎 Sunday, September 29: Come visit Lilith at the @bkbookfest‘s Literary Marketplace. Meet Lilith staff & writers, receive complimentary copies of Lilith magazine, and enjoy a Jewish feminist art project.
Go to link in bio for all the event details.
“What Is Left” by Penny Jackson (@pennyjackso_) is the perfect read to start the Jewish month of Elul.
As Jackson investigates what her late mother left behind — jewelry in a tangled mess, a silk scarf with red poppies, a prayer shawl from her brother’s bar mitzvah — she discovers her mother`s teenage diary, writing: “surely my mother didn’t expect anyone to read this journal. But why did she keep it for so many decades? The emotion is so vibrant that the journal seems to almost tremble in my hands.”
Read the rest at lilith.org now — link in bio.
“What Is Left” by Penny Jackson (@pennyjackso_) is the perfect read to start the Jewish month of Elul.
As Jackson investigates what her late mother left behind — jewelry in a tangled mess, a silk scarf with red poppies, a prayer shawl from her brother’s bar mitzvah — she discovers her mother`s teenage diary, writing: “surely my mother didn’t expect anyone to read this journal. But why did she keep it for so many decades? The emotion is so vibrant that the journal seems to almost tremble in my hands.”
Read the rest at lilith.org now — link in bio.
