Tag: Lilith Magazine

An Imaginary Quarter of a Food-Obsessed City

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Debut novelist Carmit Delman talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how food becomes both marker and symbol for the haves and the have nots.

Warmth from an Afghan Blanket

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Coronavirus has suddenly changed our lives, so quickly and in ways so profound that we are just beginning to grasp. 

You Are Your Name

Elizabeth Kadetsky

Your name is who you are and that no one else can have your name until you die–this precept seems profoundly linked to what it means to be Jewish.

Becoming an Abortion Doula

Steph Black

Why go this extra mile in support of patients? Because I’m not only pro-choice, but I am pro-abortion and pro-access. That means going beyond supporting someone’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy but fighting to remove the barriers that may prevent them from doing so.

The Book That Teaches Children About a Jewish Prima Ballerina

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Lily falls in love with ballet—but can this fragile girl ever become a serious dancer? Fiction Editor (and lifelong balletomane) talks to author Krystyna Poray Goddu about her informative and charming new picture book.

The Poem that Went Viral, and the Woman Behind It

Talia Lavin

“After my rape, I really fell back on my traditions. I got a mezuzah, and I started saying the Shabbat prayers every week at my own home.” Viral-video slam poet and activist Anna Binkovitz opens up to Lilith about trauma, survival, and the vital importance of language.

Independent, jewish & frankly feminist

Since 1976, Lilith magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style.