Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later.
Jessica Keener’s Night Swim, A Decade Later
Category: Lilith Online
On Cormac McCarthy’s Jewish Heroine
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Why would Cormac McCarthy assign Jewishness to his characters in a book so overwhelmingly Catholic?
Do I Have a Right to Sing for Peace?
Rebecca Katz
A mother wrestles with her lullaby during wartime.
The Skin I’m In: Ozempic, Fatphobia, and Hunger
D B Ashkenazi
I’m waiting for the day that my body isn’t a point of discussion at all
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
What Tahara Can Teach Us
Alana Krivo-Kaufman
During a Tahara, the Jewish ritual for sanctifying a body after death, we wash the body in a continuous stream of water, we engage in spacious silence, and we recite words which affirm the inherent goodness of every soul, every life an entire world.
Bring Them Home
Susan Weidman Schneider
We are three weeks into the most threatening time I have lived through as a Jew.
Amazon Is Sold out of Sackcloth.
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
Letter from Israel: The Definition of Insanity
Elana Sztokman
Do we use our pain to unleash violence and hatred onto others? Or do we use our pain as an instrument of compassion, to learn to recognize the pain in others?
