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From Our Readers

Thank you for your wonderful Summer 2006 issue of Lilith, and the most beautiful, life-affirming cover photograph. Thank you, Tamar [Prager, “Coming Out in the Orthodox World”], for poignantly sharing…

Is Open Adoption Still an Open Question?

When open adoption advocate Betty Jean Lfton died in November, this issue surfaced once again. In the New York Times obituary, Margalit Fox wrote that when Lifton’s Twice Born: Memoirs…

From the Editor

It’s ironic. Michael J. Fox, the TV actor and dreamboat to the early adolescent set (and an Anglican) goes on record in People magazine as saying, “I’m going to marry…

Education Conference Discusses Sex-Role Stereotyping

…family education specialist. Cherie Koller-Fox of Brookline, Mass., a key conference planner, observed that people have begun to integrate issues such as role-stereotyping and equal participation of women into their…

The Firstborn and the Princess

…graduation, she bought it; in high school I got the camel jacket with a fox collar; the summer I was 15, some of my friends joined a swim club in…

Orthodox Women Rabbis
by Any Other Name

…in signing Jewish documents. According to the head of Yehisvat Maharat, Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, “They are only permitted to lead services or read Torah within the framework of Halakha.” Will…

May Their Memories Be for a Blessing

…honorific “Ms.” into common parlance. MARGALIT FOX in “Sheila Michaels, Who Brought ‘Ms.’ to Prominence, Dies at 78,” The New York Times, July 6, 2017. *** Simone Veil, a Holocaust…

Happening

…political and ecological transformation at a retreat center offering workshops by Starhawk, Judith Plaskow, Rabbi Burt Jacobson, Matthew Fox, Arthur Waskow, Linda Hirschhorn and others. Contact: Jeff Roth, Elat Chayyim….

A Girl’s-Eye View of Las Vegas Jewish Power

…in rags and scrap metal, who bought nickelodeon houses as vaudeville fell out of favor and who came west and built the studios—MGM, Warners, Fox, etc. The Jewish mobsters who…