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Art: "Fractured Woman, 1982" by Anna Walinska
Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page. Join us as a Jewish feminist community of Lilith subscribers* for a writers’ hour facilitated by Lilith’s new editor in chief, novelist Anna Solomon.
Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world. All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.
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How do we take care of ourselves—and each other—in simple, practical ways?
Lilith`s Executive Editor, Sarah Seltzer, writes: "There is a middle ground between tending one’s own garden and staffing the barricades 24/7. There is caring beyond your own backyard, caring for your community." Lilith`s Winter 2025 issue offers ideas on where to start. Read it now — 🔗 in bio!
Art by Yaara Eshet
Explore the wide-ranging works of late-artist (and feminist icon) Anna Walinska through May 31st at the Art Students League in NYC. Visit the 🔗 in our bio to read all about Walinska from the POV of her niece, Rosina Rubin, who has ushered her aunt’s work into public view.
Pictured here: Rosina Rubin and Art Students League Curator Esther Moerdler, with Walinska`s self-portrait
How can victims and survivors find justice in a system that routinely fails to protect them?
In April 2025, a Long Island judge awarded over a billion-and-a-half dollars in damages to 107 women who testified in their civil suit that, as children and teenagers, they had been sexually molested by their former pediatrician, Stuart Copperman. Copperman never responded to the 107 individual complaints.
Do the monetary damages awarded help survivors feel whole again? In Lilith’s Fall 2025 issue, one survivor told Alice Sparberg Alexiou: “I want him to say, ‘I confess that I did what these women said. And I apologize.’” Read the full article at 🔗 in bio.
