Rishe Groner
So. I don’t know about you, but I never thought we’d be here. Saying goodbye to Sukkot, the grand festival of rejoicing, the time when we celebrate harvest, honor abundance,… Read more »
Reflections on Sukkot During the Coronavirus
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The Struggle of Finding Shelter as an Orthodox Woman
Rishe Groner
Sukkot is supposed to be the holiday of rejoicing. And yet for me, a particularly difficult time, as a single woman. Usually, it’s the week before Sukkot that I put… Read more »
Clamor in the Desert: A Shelter for Anyone Who Feels Forlorn
Mirta Kupferminc
We are living in uncertain times. In Argentina, my home, the flights are almost totally suspended and the feeling of confinement and distance becomes more evident. I am an artist… Read more »
Stuffed with Abundance and Gratitude
Susan Barocas
What better way to celebrate the abundance of the harvest than by stuffing vegetables with an abundance of meat, rice, vegetables and fruits! No wonder stuffed foods are a traditional… Read more »
Harbor From the Holocaust: The Jews of Shanghai
Aileen Jacobson
By Aileen Jacobson In 1941, Laura Margolis, the American Joint Distribution Committee’s first female field agent, was sent to Shanghai to help the nearly 20,000 Jews who had fled there… Read more »
Reflecting on the Protests in Portland
Melissa Slavsky
Portland is one of the whitest cities in America, with an extremely racist history. So who would have ever thought we would be the city to watch during the modern-day civil rights movement?
Black Jewish Women Artists You Should Know… Rebecca S’manga Frank
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The world is calling me to write. It’s also calling me to try new things and when I get scared, to surrender and try again.
Lilith Votes: How I’m Feeling (Spoiler: Not Great!) as a First-Time Feminist Voter
Rachel Fadem
As a first-time voter, radical feminist, and survivor of sexual assault, I’d anticipated that this election would be more hopeful than it is.
Lilith Votes: The Truth about Voter Suppression
Arielle Silver-Willner
The “use it or lose it” attitude toward voter registration reveals a major flaw in our country— it seems that voting is in fact not a right, but a privilege.
My Hair as a Metaphor
Meredith Gordon Resnick
My hair was a problem to be solved. From inside and outside the walls of my house, my hair was a symbol of something larger that had nothing and everything to do with me.