Karen Dresser
Torah shouts: all women who practice witchcraft must be put to death! Talmud reports: rabbinic sages believed their wives all practiced witchcraft.
Poem: Do Not Allow a Witch to Live
Tag: magic
What Magic Is Ours?
Emily Barth
You can’t make a voodoo doll, I repeat. It isn’t our magic to use. I think of the magic that should be ours to use, instead. The faith we should have in our mezuzot and our medicine. A magic based on belief in the good.
Sadie Schuster’s Magic Love Knots (Part 2 of “Sadie in Love”)
Rochelle Distelheim
All this week, in the grand tradition of Victorian periodicals, Lilith will be serializing an excerpt of Sadie in Love, the debut novel from 96-year-old former magazine editor Rochelle Distelheim. Look out for new installments every day this week.