Susan Barocas
Perhaps we can create our own seven species… qualities for this time to help us focus on what we need to find in abundance within ourselves.
The Promise of Tu B’Shevat
Tag: Lilith Magazine
Creating a Reflection of Myself
Daisy Friedman
My whole pre-teen and teenage life, I watched films and television shows and thought, “Where am I?” Never before had I seen a girl with a subway map of scars on her body get the guy of her dreams. I had never seen a girl who used a walker be the prom queen.
Every Safe Space Has a Door: An Interview with Comedian Judy Gold
Rachel Fadem
Great comedy makes you think. But it can also change your mind. Especially when you see someone who is the polar opposite of you, onstage, making you laugh.
7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2020
Helene Meyers
Even with all its tsuris [Yiddish for trouble, and not the good kind], 2020 had some bright spots for Jewish feminists.
The Sufgania That Made Me Feel At Home In a Place That Rarely Felt Like One
Polina Kroik
I could never find the sufganiot of my Israeli childhood, the ones that my father bought for a couple of shekels in the local bakery and brought home unexpectedly one damp night.
Embracing a Different Hanukkah
Susan Barocas
This year, so much about our lives, including how we celebrate holidays, is different, which makes it a perfect time to move beyond potato latkes and embrace some new ideas for delicious Hanukkah eating.
Saving Leonardo de Vinci’s “Lady with the Ermine”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>
Life Without Lipstick
Yona Zeldis McDonough
And although none of these compare even remotely to the loss of life and living, they inflict a particular kind of pain because they are set against the backdrop of such monumental tragedy. One of those small sorrows is the loss of lipstick—and by this I mean red lipstick because for me, that’s the only kind there is.
A Profound Posthumous Novel from a Very Late Bloomer
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jerusalem as a Second Language, Distelheim’s second novel, is out from Audbade on September 29, 2020 but sadly, Distelheim died on June 1 and didn’t get to savor the praise that is sure to come for her sophomore effort.
Connecting Jewish Tradition with Black Fugitive Legacies
Chanel Dubofsky
Artists are memory workers – they witness and then create, they bring things back. We have the tools, we can create a way out of nothing. That’s what artists offer right now.