Even with the need to be heard in these confrontational times, we accept the idea that we will watch a film in silence. We give the film space to enfold us and carry us to its conclusion. Can this unwritten agreement be extended into the light of day to give all of us the space to speak… and to be heard?
Elana Sztokman: When horror and sadness at the attacks is accompanied by anger at the government.
With pain in our hearts for losses past and, we fear, losses yet to come, Lilith will in coming weeks and months continue to publish the stories of Jewish feminists about terror, loss, displacement, and connection.
A sharply composed collage-poem that provokes us to perceive connections, to recognize the reality of multiple convictions in our troubled time, and to ask ourselves: What now? What then?
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
Author Haviva Ner-David talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how she views this age-old conflict and her passionate commitment to ending it.
We can birth life instead of birthing violence.
We are destined to share this land. Neither of us can possibly win until we find a way for all of us to win.
I don’t know what kind of mother I would be if I lived behind a blockade.
