Maya Bernstein
My daughter, in a post-kindergarten exuberant high, has been exercising her new reading and writing skills by creating “books” in her free time. She wrote one called “Zoo.” It was… Read more »
Failing Forward
Category: Lilith Online
Today we’re all gay…
Amy Stone
Today we’re all gay… Yes, yes, we’re still in the afterglow. The dinosaurs of Albany, more known for corruption and dysfunction, have stunned and delighted us by making same-sex marriage… Read more »
Ashram
Merissa Nathan Gerson
On a break from a Hindu Ashram in the Catskills I stopped into Wal-Mart. Yes, Wal-Mart in the mountains of New York happens to, in addition to an odd myriad… Read more »
Missing Esther Broner
Amy Stone
I’ve just come home from Esther Broner’s funeral. Esther got the A-list of speakers at her funeral. It was the list she put together right after her beloved husband, Robert,… Read more »
Sometimes We Say Hello
Naomi Danis
Cross-posted with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The diplomat uses as many words as possible and tries to say nothing; the picture book writer uses as few words as possible… Read more »
We Are What We Wear?
Susan Weidman Schneider
Cross-posted with eJewish Philanthropy. We all have narratives we tell ourselves about clothes. The inherited fur you can’t wear and can’t part with; the dress from a landmark simcha, too… Read more »
There are Rules
Merissa Nathan Gerson
There are rules, somewhere, about how to be a Chasid on an airplane. In that same rulebook there are most likely also a set of behavioral norms for a woman… Read more »
Chop Me Up For Spare Parts
Liz Lawler
So, here is a pop quiz: are Jews allowed to donate organs? Yes. I ask, because it turns out that many people are wrong on this count. Enough Jews are… Read more »
Coda
Maya Bernstein
Our family had returned from Israel. We had, eventually, embraced the mid-trip loss of our camera. We drew sketches of the special places we had been. We laughed and then… Read more »
Caroline Leavitt on "Pictures of You"
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Caroline Leavitt’s new novel—her ninth—starts off with a bang. Literally. Isabelle Stein is fleeing her Cape Cod home and husband after learning that not only has been cheating on her… Read more »