Lilith Feature
Shopping: A EulogyThe old way of buying clothes holds nostalgic appeal, despite its history of exploitation.
Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
The old way of buying clothes holds nostalgic appeal, despite its history of exploitation.
Why this recurring presence in American letters and feminist reporting is in the spotlight again.
Chana Blankshteyn (1860?– 1939) is almost entirely forgotten now, but she was a well-known figure in Vilna between the two World Wars. She was an activist, committed to women’s causes and vocational training for women. As a publisher, editor, and journalist, Blankshteyn defended women’s rights to social, sexual, and political equality. She belonged to the... Read more »
The comedian channels her grandmother’s tale of family and footwear.
My father stood upright on the floor of a dress factory on West 35th Street in New York City with a steam iron in his hand for thirty years. My uncles owned the factory. My father was Labor, my uncles were Capital. My father was a Socialist, my uncles were Zionists. Therefore, Labor was Socialism... Read more »
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945–2018) forged her intellectual tools in feminist and civil rights communities during the 1960s and 1970s and used them throughout her life as an organizer, activist, and theorist addressing fundamental structural inequalities and the root causes of sexism, homophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism. Kaye/Kantrowitz adopted her last name during the 1980s as a part... Read more »
In the years to come, more of us will be growing our own potatoes.
How do we get political will? Advocate! Vote! Start now!
To be clear, I miss art. I miss being moved and confronted and stretched by artists and their work. But I don’t really miss the apparatus that surrounds it.
As the CEO of a majority Jewish women of color led organization, I continue to learn how essential our work to expand racial equity in the world around us is to our very survival.
“Recall your worst haircut!” and “What’s the world calling you to do right now?” Art and writing prompts like these drew avid participants to Lilith’s recent Zoom-based zine-making events inspired by our pandemic-induced desire for a Jewish feminist space to combat isolation and alienation. ’Zines—highly personal and handmade—have a history as a kind of feminist... Read more »
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Telemedicine options for many kinds of healthcare have spiked. Yet this has not been true for abortion.
The Jewish community must take a lead in looking at all the systemic inequities that are being laid bare by the pandemic
What would it mean to think about a Jewish future that does not revolve around Jewish women having Jewish babies?
The non-summer months could be filled with much more camp content in years to come.
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Last Thursday God and I were playing Scrabble eating peanut brittle and listening to Joni Mitchell. I used all my letters w-h-i-s-t-l-e-s and I saw a side of God I’d never seen before. First he insisted that whistles has no ‘h’ which is utter bullshit. Then he started to pout complaining all his letters were... Read more »
He casually asked if my sixth-grade classmates were wearing bras.
In all the years I’d been wearing, collecting and swooning over vintage fashion, I remained a pure formalist. My appreciation was based on the nuances of cut and color, shape and design. It wasn’t until I began a more methodical kind of research into some of my favorite silhouettes that I began to see how... Read more »