The Uncle Who Was “Sent Away”
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I NEVER KNEW my uncle Robert and there is no one living who remembers him. My father doesn’t remember him— although there was an empty space in the house where he... Read more »
Winter 2025
Care and community in dark times. Novelists and playwrights reimagine family history. More writers over 40 debuting in Lilith’s pages.
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Mr. Chicken Possible
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What about Miss Bun Bun? She paid for my mistake with her life? What kind of karma was that?
In the Blue-Tiled Room
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With an adolescent’s gift for being a truffle pig for hypocrisy, I couldn’t accept these limitations.
Fiction: Good Housekeeping, British Edition, and the Camel
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This is not a song or a story with a Star of David on it. This is the sacrificing of their children on the slabs of politics like burnt offerings...
Poetry: The Keepsake Ultrasound
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Poetry Editor Alicia Ostriker comments: If “ecstasy” is a word for joy that carries us beyond our bodies, what can be the word for joy filling us with light within the womb? This transcendent poem moves toward knowing. I am moved and amazed by the way it fuses blessings drawn from Jewish sources with the mystery of the Zen koan that finally has an answer.
On War and Family Secrets
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Sasha Vasilyuk’s debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury, 2024), defies categorization—at once historical fiction, family saga, and World War II thriller, drawing from Vasilyuk’s own family history. Your Presence... Read more »
We Came So Close to a New Model of Masculinity
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I’m five years old, and I’m walking down the hill to our neighborhood elementary school, holding tight to my grandfather’s rough and calloused hand. The school is doubling as a... Read more »
Fight Book Bans; Save Democracy!
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On a dark, cold mid-winter’s night, a group of people stand shoulder-to-shoulder, huddled against the sharp wind. Some of them are nervous, but all are angry. Their town—their children—are in... Read more »
I Let Go of My Breastmilk… and Found Faith
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Standing in front of my fridge with my baby on my hip, I stared at the unopened bags of breastmilk, calculating how much I should give away. What if I suddenly... Read more »
The Jewish World Still Stigmatizes People Like Me
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How to combat mental health stigma in your own community.
A Granddaughter’s Obsession Leads to Painful Discoveries–and Blessings
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A conversation with Nina F. Grünfeld about Frida: My Long-Lost Grandmother’s War, recently released in English.
