Amy Stone
You’ve got to be attracted to a call to a Yom Kippur service next to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, especially when the Facebook invite starts with a quote from… Read more »
Kol Nidre Alongside Occupy Wall Street
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Paint Yourself Out
Sonia Isard
“The hell with them all. Paint yourself out, through and through, it will come by you alone. You must come to terms with your own work not with any other… Read more »
Lilith Intern Takes the Stage!
Sonia Isard
Elissa Goldstein emerged victorious! Her six-word story was a winner at the recent Jewish memoir competition run by Tablet magazine and Smith magazine. See below for more pics from the occasion, which also featured… Read more »
Are Jewish Sororities an Untapped Opportunity?
Susan Weidman Schneider
Cross-posted with eJewish Philanthropy. I’ve been revisiting a 1997 article in Lilith entitled “Jewish Latency,” featured on the cover as “The Jews We Lose.” It’s all about a project Lilith… Read more »
Vivian Silver: An Anglo in Israel
Barbara Gingold
Usually operating modestly behind the scenes, Vivian Silver is making headlines this year. A native of Winnipeg, she moved to Israel in 1974 as a member of the newly reestablished… Read more »
Sneak Peek! A Reconsideration of Jewish Sororities
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Remember the opening scene of Legally Blonde? Or the Saturday Night Live salutation “Delta, Delta, Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?” To many observers, sororities look like… Read more »
America is wonderful during the week
Merissa Nathan Gerson
“America is wonderful during the week, but painful on Shabbat.” This is what my friend Malika wrote me after her first Shabbat back in America. I am a Shabbat nut.… Read more »
Out and Ordained – An Update
Amy Stone
Before updating Lilith readers on the story “Out and Ordained,” in Lilith’s current issue, a few corrections to the published piece: –While Rachel Isaacs is the first openly gay rabbinical… Read more »
Women Are Not Part of the Intergenerational Schism in Jewish Life
Susan Weidman Schneider
Cross-posted with eJewish Philanthropy. eJP has reported several times on the conflicts between emerging/ startup organizations/ courting the young vs Boomers/established brands/”legacy” organizations. Here’s other news: this tension does NOT… Read more »
Mourning Leiby Kletzky
Liz Lawler
I found out about Leiby Kletzky’s death when I was settling into a yoga class. The instructor dedicated the class to him, adding that he had been found, and that he… Read more »