Leah Grisham
This year, with some unlikely help from Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie, I finally have the words to explain why honoring Queen Esther with the name Hadassah is so important to me.
This year, with some unlikely help from Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie, I finally have the words to explain why honoring Queen Esther with the name Hadassah is so important to me.
These flaky, gluten-free cookies are eaten for Norouz, the Persian New Year, and by Persian Jews for the holiday of Purim since both holidays often fall close together on the calendar.
We cannot let state or federal legislation determine when life begins, forcing the hegemony of Christian scripture on our wombs or on our dreams.
What follows a breast or gynecological cancer diagnosis can be confounding, with challenging choices, and treatments that carry varying implications.
In the end, the yearning for home, or perhaps more specifically to belong, is a shared human condition.
If rituals give us context to mark transitions and liturgy gives us the language to describe them, there is a whole set of transitions and experiences historically ignored within Jewish tradition.
A champion of women’s rights, social justice, and Jewish culture, Weissman’s wonderful art collection is now on view at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum.
Historically, Jews have dealt with so much violence, discrimination, and hate enacted by outside forces: we cannot afford to inflict pain against each other. And perhaps–that’s why we inflict pain against each other?
Exile can be a place for sustained nourishment: the same activism that led me out of Jewish community came to tether me back in.
This poem from Alicia Ostriker is exactly what we needed to read today.
Read more of Alicia`s work in Lilith`s latest issue — link in bio.
📷: Rachel Goldberg-Polin by @joanrothphotography
How are you entering into Shabbat this week?
We feel caught in the swirl of @lynneavadenka`s prints.
Her Invention series—which accompanied "Identity and Anxiety in Turbulent Times" in Lilith`s Fall 2024 issue—was created with Hebrew wood and metal type printed letterpress on a Vandercook proof press, part of a body of work that celebrated Jewish women’s roles in early Hebrew printing. Each piece includes Hebrew text excerpts: “She works willingly with her hands” from Eishet Chayil, in The Book of Proverbs. “Great Invention,” which is what David Gans said about printing in 1592.
Happy Pride!
Since our inception in 1976, Lilith has been a home and a microphone for queer writers and artists--and their stories. Pictured here is just a small sampling of these stories.
Here`s to the past 50 years...and many more to come 🌈
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