Karen Paul
How do we reconcile the disparate pieces of our genetic whorl with the legacy of our lineage?
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What Is Left
Penny Jackson
I will never know. I can’t fit all the pieces of my mother’s life together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Disability as Beloved by G-d
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
I know deeply what it is to feel like I have to make a choice between my spiritual life and my sense of dignity as a disabled person.
My Weekend Working for Peace at Woodstock
Laurel Brett
When I want to position myself in the world I need only one fact: I went to Woodstock.
COVID, Body Image, and Tisha B’Av: How I Watched the Olympics with Exercise Intolerance
Mariah Guevin
It felt different to watch The Olympics this year. It’s not only a reminder of the incredible variety of the human body, but of its fragility.
A Tisha b’Av Warning from the “Other” Israel Film Festival
Amy Stone
Films depict the unequal treatment of Mizrahi Israelis, Ethiopian Israelis and Arab/Palestinian Israelis, and the poor treatment of foreign workers. Forget the early Zionist ideal of the nobility of Jewish labor in the Promised Land. Discrimination against women, a frequent subject of this festival, was problematic even in the early kibbutz days.
One Building. Five Stories. Infinite Possibilities.
Rochelle Newman-Carrasco
Ellen Weinstein’s new children’s book captures life on the Lower East Side across languages, traditions, and generations.
“[She] Told Me She’d Written a Book about Our Family, “Kissing Girls on Shabbat”… I Only Wish We had Reconnected Sooner”
Chloe Safier
Chloe Safier talks to her cousin, Sara Glass, about “Kissing Girls on Shabbat,” leaving Orthodox Judaism, and buying yoga pants for the first time.
Podcasts for Comfort, Education, Distraction
Chanel Dubofsky
Nine Jewish feminists weigh in about the podcasts they’ve been listening to — for comfort, for sanity, for enlightenments, and for laughs.
Addressing Abuse in US Gymnastics—and The Reform Movement
Rabbi Mary Zamore
When it comes to addressing sexual harassment and abuse, we can learn from the parallel journeys of US Gymnastics and the Reform movement.
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CW: Sexual Violence
The Dinah Project was established to achieve recognition and justice for victims and survivors of sexual violence during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and for those taken hostage. This report represents the most comprehensive assessment to date of the sexual violence that occurred during and after the attack. It goes beyond documenting what happened to provide theoretical and practical legal frameworks for accountability and prosecution.
Learn more at the link in our bio.
Cover Image: Zoya Cherkassky, The Terrorist Attack at Nova Music Festival, 2023, mixed media on paper.
NYC folks! Hungry for an evening of Jewish feminist community, conversation and story-sharing, and noshing?
On July 16th, join Lilith for an in-person salon at Café Tsion, featuring spirited conversation inspired by the themes in the current issue of Lilith, including friendship, hope, clothing and accessories, and the power of food! Delicious snacks and drinks will be served, prepared by Ethiopian Jewish chef Beejhy Barhany, whose new cookbook (“Gursha”) is excerpted in Lilith’s latest issue.
RSVP at the link in our bio ✨
The original Bible story alarms and puzzles us. Here, the daughters come into their own, flames, disobedience and all. From Lilith`s current issue, @zeevabukai on the brand new literary anthology, "Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible," edited by @sara.lipp and @snrogoff (@suny_press). Read it at link in bio.
Lilith’s longtime poetry editor, Alicia Ostriker, read “PRAYER TO THE SHEKHINAH” from her latest collection at Yetzirah’s 2025 Jewish poetry conference.
Learn more about “The Holy and Broken Bliss” (2024) in Lilith’s latest issue — link in bio!
Shabbat shalom on this July 4th weekend! Are you braving the heat and enjoying the outdoors?
This self-portrait by @danakearleys was featured in Lilith`s Spring 2024 section on Disability and Judaism today. Just in time for #DisabilityPrideMonth, this wonderful collection of pieces from @juliawattsbelser, @maskingmariah, @ramona.saft, @arielle_slvr and @ashleyphillipstaylor—and designed by @lindsaybarnettdesign—won Rockower Awards for writing and graphic art.
