Rachel Anisfeld
Amidst the violence, in response to the violence, we quietly sprinkle the world with this tender presence, creating a mirco-climate of love.
The Story of Noah, the Story of Our Hearts
Category: Lilith Online
Let’s Build a Room for Hope
Rabbi Miriam Grossman
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Miriam Grossman: Today I need to keep my humanity. And today I need to keep going even without hope. Because hope will come one day.
Last Saturday Morning.
Elana Sztokman
Elana Sztokman: When horror and sadness at the attacks is accompanied by anger at the government.
How to Pray While the World Burns
Hila Ratzabi
A poem from Hila Ratzabi:
The earth will hold you better
Than God can.
We’ve Lost so Much. Let’s Not Lose Our Damn Minds.
Rabbi Sharon Brous
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Sharon Brous: After the atrocities in Israel on Simhat Torah, we must remember the healing power of community, and the importance of compassion, solidarity and showing up.
Israel at War: “In the Beginning There Was the Word.”
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Angela Buchdal: Words matter, because the truth matters. Let’s take care to use the right ones.
The Horror of These Times: A Reading List
Lilith magazine
With pain in our hearts for losses past and, we fear, losses yet to come, Lilith will in coming weeks and months continue to publish the stories of Jewish feminists about terror, loss, displacement, and connection.
Poem: “From the River to the Sea”
Sarah Sassoon
There once was / a way to cross the river,/ an old Jewish bridge/ from the Tigris to the Euphrates / flowing ancient date honey.
Nina Simon on Mystery, Murder, and the Unusual Jewish Mother
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Nina Simon reflects on her Jewish mother, environmentalist politics, and life transition in a new murder mystery novel.
Diane Mehta’s Miniaturist Poetry
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Mehta’s poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.