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Susan Schnur interviews Barbara Aiello
Memoir! The life stories revealed in 35 years of Lilith. A female view of male circumcision. Guiding a child through her cancer. Saying Yizkor for a marriage. Re-considering Jewish sororities.
Table of contents Get the issueThis traditional Jewish rite of passage is how we welcome newborn boys. Now, it’s also inciting both anti-Semitism and a big dose of feminist ambivalence.
The physical inspection was first. Eyes. Nose. On her chin, a thumb opened her jaw. The woman’s hands weren’t soft but they were dry, at least, like salted fish. Minna closed her eyes, then worried she looked afraid and opened them. The fingers tugged at her earlobes. They prowled at her nape. But now the... Read more »
A rabbi/mom morphed five Jewish principles into rituals for pulling herself and her daughter through a hellish year.
Flying in the face of the stereotypes, Kohn claims they could be precursors for social justice work.
Why do Jewish women write memoir? A guided tour through the life stories revealed in Lilith’s pages — by women like, and very unlike, yourself.
He cheats. She mourns. The unexpected solace from a Jewish way of handling loss.
The Rebbetzin says angels follow you and defend you when you die — unless you speak ill,in which case the angels are injured. They bruise blue and their mouths melt shutlike some crooked river which craves to save you. Life doesn’t go quite right.I don’t leap from this... Read more »