Tag: mothers

What Is Left

Penny Jackson

I will never know. I can’t fit all the pieces of my mother’s life together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Malcah’s Closet

Yona Zeldis McDonough

I want to tell you about my mother’s clothes.

I Couldn’t Divorce My Mother-in-Law

Penny Jackson

I do not know if Ida knows my name. She does not remember that her son Gary left me ten years ago for a twenty-two year old nurse at his hospital. I have seen Ida more often than I have seen my ex-husband, who has moved to Anchorage, Alaska and now has two sons with his second wife.

Independent, jewish & frankly feminist

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