Jennifer Baum
Here I was in Marrakesh, brought right back to the core of my being, to my father, through a mourner’s prayer more than 2000 years old.
A Mourner’s Prayer in Morocco
Tag: Mourning
COVID, Body Image, and Tisha B’Av: How I Watched the Olympics with Exercise Intolerance
Mariah Guevin
It felt different to watch The Olympics this year. It’s not only a reminder of the incredible variety of the human body, but of its fragility.
Our Most Read Stories of 2023
Lilith Staff
These pieces reflect this heartbreaking year of violence and loss. Two abiding themes are grief and hope
I Know Nothing About Tisha B’av
Rebecca S’manga Frank
Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. I often feel like I’m in a perpetual state of mourning.
Today I Will Eat Ashes
Megan J. Smith
Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.
What a Literary Left-Wing Legend Left Behind
Ellen Gruber Garvey
In Frances Goldin’s apartment, we found a powerful sign: “I Adore My Lesbian Daughters.”
Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
Imani Romney Rosa Chapman
A rewriting of Unetaneh Tokef in honor of the Black Lives that have been lost to racist violence.
Mourning During a Period of Self-Isolation
Rachel Fadem
My online college class was interrupted with three missed calls from my father, two from my mother, and a supplemental set of urgent texts. I knew without calling back that my grandmother had passed.