Yona Zeldis McDonough
New York City, 1911. Helen Fox is a factory worker barely able to make ends meet and so reluctantly allows Abigail, her eldest daughter, to go to work at the…
New York City, 1911. Helen Fox is a factory worker barely able to make ends meet and so reluctantly allows Abigail, her eldest daughter, to go to work at the…
…of his great capacity for parental love. Just think of the Absalom story (2 Samuel, chapters 13 – 20) to understand: David’s son Amnon had raped his half-sister Tamar. Either…
Illustration by Jessica Tamar Deutsch. Menstrual blood and bleeding have been simultaneously powerful and shameful in the lives of many. For Jewish women, the particular religious strictures and customs have…
Tamar Gozansky, a Hadash party member of the Israeli Knesset [Parliament], has sent LILITH the following communique: A fourteen-year-old girl was gang raped and sexually abused for an entire week…
EDUCATED AND IGNORANT by Tamar El-Or; translated by Haim Watzman [Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, hard $42, soft $17.95] Tamar El-Or’s ethnography of Gur Hasidic women begins with a yearning for…
…grandson, and Tamar, her granddaughter. Nadav fell at the Suez Canal, and his sister Tamar wandered around in Europe for a year like a madwoman. A Swedish volunteer on the…
…with a love story, the film tells the story of Fanya (Tamar Alkan), a young woman who arrives on the shores of Palestine with a little baby, accompanied by her…
When artist Jessica Tamar Deutsch was finishing her studies at the Parsons School of Design, she decided to illustrate the famous collection of rabbinic wisdom, Pirkei Avot—typically translated as The…
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…me more towards choosing Ester or Tamar when my Hebrew name was in question — Ester for its resilience, Tamar for how it ended with –mar; a bite, a swift…