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So apparently, “vagina” is the new bad word at John Jay High School in New York. So bad, in fact, that you can be suspended for saying it at an… Read more »
So apparently, “vagina” is the new bad word at John Jay High School in New York. So bad, in fact, that you can be suspended for saying it at an… Read more »
We all know the joke about how many feminists it takes to screw in a lightbulb. (“Just one–and it’s not funny.“) You would think this stereotype might be combated by… Read more »
As a Jewish woman who considers herself an ardent feminist, I never know if my (spoken or unspoken) messages to my daughter have registered. And as a mother and grandmother,… Read more »
Lilith makes the (web)pages of the JWA blog as people discuss “that tallit article” from our Fall 2006 issue. Check out the post. (Also stay tuned for a photo of… Read more »
I know we’re just past the season where we have to repent our sins, but I just finished reading the incomparable Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt. I loved it,… Read more »
Lilith’s Fiction Editor talks to Morelli about “The Night Portrait,” a novel that goes back and forth through time in tracing the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous Lady with the Ermine.
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."
Find out what happened next at the 🔗 in our bio.
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!