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In Lilith`s latest issue, poetry editor Alicia Ostriker remarks, "This is one of the most warm-hearted poems I have seen in a long time, full of ongoing affection for a father who was a non-believer yet remained attached and proud as a Jew to “say the prayers.” A quiet miracle."
We hope you`ll think so too.
Find the full poem at the link in our bio.
In Lilith`s latest issue, poetry editor Alicia Ostriker remarks, "This is one of the most warm-hearted poems I have seen in a long time, full of ongoing affection for a father who was a non-believer yet remained attached and proud as a Jew to “say the prayers.” A quiet miracle."
We hope you`ll think so too.
Find the full poem at the link in our bio.
May your Shabbat be filled with warmth and light.
#shabbat #shabbatcandles
"Yet, even in the harshest of environments, nature ensures something new will grow."
Karen Bloom for Lilith in November 2022, on experiencing grief and celebrating Thanksgiving. Link in bio.
#Thanksgiving #grief #sisters
"Yet, even in the harshest of environments, nature ensures something new will grow."
Karen Bloom for Lilith in November 2022, on experiencing grief and celebrating Thanksgiving. Link in bio.
#Thanksgiving #grief #sisters
In our latest issue, New 40 cohort member Bella Bogart made her Lilith debut with a reflection on her childhood in a household where "the atmosphere...was always thick with secrets."
Link in bio.
In our latest issue, New 40 cohort member Bella Bogart made her Lilith debut with a reflection on her childhood in a household where "the atmosphere...was always thick with secrets."
Link in bio.
Why would Cormac McCarthy make the protagonist of his final book Jewish? "Maybe he believed (or knew), as Abe Greenwald posits for Commentary, that most mathematical geniuses happened to be Jewish, and wanted to show he’d done his homework. Perhaps McCarthy felt Jewishness was appropriate to bestow upon the Westerns because of what Jews know (as a cultural matter? As a spiritual one?) about the mind."
Read more at the link in our bio.
Why would Cormac McCarthy make the protagonist of his final book Jewish? "Maybe he believed (or knew), as Abe Greenwald posits for Commentary, that most mathematical geniuses happened to be Jewish, and wanted to show he’d done his homework. Perhaps McCarthy felt Jewishness was appropriate to bestow upon the Westerns because of what Jews know (as a cultural matter? As a spiritual one?) about the mind."
Read more at the link in our bio.
