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Ellinides Evraies

…reasons her parents remained, Erika says, is that of her mother’s family, four of the five siblings had, incredibly, survived Auschwitz. Erika and her sister, who lives in Tel Aviv,…

Bat Mitzvah / Bar Mitzvah

LILITH here interviews Judy Davis, Ed.D., an expert in the field of the psychology of bat and bar mitzvah. Davis, a family therapist working and teaching at the University of…

B’nai B’rith Women Fight Dissolution

B’nai B’rith Women president, Beverly Davis, expressed her firm opposition to a resolution passed by B’nai B’rith International September 4 calling for a plan to open the BBI membership to…

The Foremothers of Food Memoirs

…considered especially influential. “I think of her as kind of a proto-blogger,” cookbook author, food journalist, and scholar Mitchell Davis told the New York Times in 2014. In Colwin’s witty,…

B’nai B’rith Women Call off Split

…whether, as a separate organization, BBW would be able to continue to support BBI programs, and whether separation would weaken B’nai B’rith, said Davis. On Davis’ initiative, meetings of BBW…

Can We Speak for Ourselves?

…the evening when Texas State Senator Wendy Davis embarked on an incredibly long and historic filibuster journey to aid the defeat of a bill that sought to cut access to…

Make Me a Comic

…command; Vanessa Davis’s Make Me a Woman (Drawn and Quarterly, $24.95) is an irreverently told slice-oflife autobiography. This is nothing new. The subject of Judaism in graphic novels — a…

Happening

…of our Mothers. To order, send $9.95 to: B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation 1640 Rhode Island Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Artist and scribe Peggy Davis has combined Hebrew and English…

The Golden Ghetto’s Shame

…sessions.” The principal initiated a “senior values seminar” that featured Irving Davis, an activist in the growing Black Power movement. A yearbook photo shows Davis in a classroom, leaning against…