Lilith Magazine

07/27/2021

When a Notorious Criminal is “One of Us”

"Black folk tend to hold our breath; we know that there are collective repercussions for the actions of a single one of us."

Tropes and conspiracy theories persist and mutate.

07/27/2021

Swimmers Against the Tide

In honor of the olympics, from the Lilith archives...

Feisty modern girls who, in the 1930s, broke the boundaries, broke the records, and broke free.

07/27/2021

One week from today Chef Susan Barocas will be in her kitchen demonstrating unusual recipes and sharing her wisdom on pickling, preserving and freezing summer's abundance, plus using ALL parts of your produce to reduce food waste!

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One week from today Chef Susan Barocas will be in her kitchen demonstrating unusual recipes and sharing her wisdom on pickling, preserving and freezing summer's abundance, plus using ALL parts of your produce to reduce food waste!

RSVP: bit.ly/rootstemleaf

07/27/2021

Simone Biles Says She Wasn’t Right Mentally During Olympic Final

We support you!

Biles left the women’s gymnastics final at the Tokyo Games because she was afraid she would be injured if she continued in a rattled state of mind. It is not clear whether she will compete in her individual events.

07/26/2021

USY’s JOCISM Cohort | United Synagogue Youth

"USY is piloting a new opportunity for connection, leadership, and education exclusively for young Jews of Color, Indigenous Jews, Sephardi Jews, and Mizrahi Jews across the country"

Apply now!

USY is piloting a new opportunity for connection, leadership, and education exclusively for young Jews of Color, Indigenous Jews, Sephardi Jews, and Mizrahi Jews across the country. Together, these groups will develop leadership skills, hear from JOCISM speakers who are making a difference in divers...

07/26/2021

Join tonight for the chance to win a signed copy of Rachel Mesch’s “Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth Century France”

Join Rachel Mesch and Lilith Intern Abby Fisher for a mother-daughter conversation about feminism and the power of language to shape it. Monday, July 26, 7-7:30 pm ET|6-6:30 pm CT|4-4:30 pm PT.

First time watching an Instagram live? Just go to Lilith's Instagram to watch the discussion.

07/25/2021

When a Notorious Criminal is “One of Us”

How will the media depiction of Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg simplify and reify dangerous myths and generalizations about Jews? Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman on the toxic narratives we internalize--and how to change them.

Tropes and conspiracy theories persist and mutate.

07/25/2021

America needs to talk about miscarriage

So much gratitude to all of the people working to address the stigma around miscarriages. Miscarriages are extremely common, happening in 10 to 20 percent of all known pregnancies. But how many times do you hear it spoken about or portrayed in the media?

The experience is incredibly common. It’s time to lift the stigma.

07/24/2021

Born Out of Wedlock

From the Archives, revisiting Liana Finck's illustrated imaginings inspired by the Yiddish Forward's early 20th century advice column.

At the turn of the [last] century, Jewish immigrants wrote for advice to the Yiddish Forward. In A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York, Finck graphically envisions the mini-dramas these …

07/24/2021

The Love Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Swoon! An illustrated q***r love story between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

For two writers who recorded so much, it is odd that there is little to no written record of their intimate encounters.

07/23/2021

Ojibwe basket weaver works to save tradition

The sacred act of crafting

April Stone’s baskets call attention to ancient craft and the threats now facing black ash trees

07/23/2021

The Feminist Revival of Tu B'Av, the Jewish Festival of Love

This ancient Jewish matchmaking festival's unexpected resurgence

Did an Orthodox girls' movement and its legendary founder revive an ancient and obscure holiday in the forests of Poland?

07/23/2021

A Women's Beach Handball Team Is Fined For Not Wanting To Wear Bikini Bottoms

We all know that women play better beach handball when they're wearing bikini bottoms--but of course the same science doesn't apply to men.

Athletes on the Norwegian women's beach handball team are being punished for wearing shorts, facing fines over "a case of improper clothing."

07/22/2021

When a Notorious Criminal is “One of Us”

Watching the news this last week, Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman found herself holding her breath as newscasters cover the story of the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg.

How this story will get used to simply and reify what dangerous myths and generalizations about who Jews are?

Tropes and conspiracy theories persist and mutate.

07/22/2021

Bridging Time, Distance and Distrust, With Music

Who we're listening to the in the office today: Moroccan Israeli singer Neta Elkayam

Neta Elkayam, an Israeli singer, plumbs the rich culture of the Moroccan Jews she descended from, and introduces it to new audiences in both countries.

07/22/2021

A Recipe for Community

We can't wait to see these recipes!

A team of college students join their passion for cooking and the Jewish community.

07/21/2021

Britney Spears and the Age-Old History of Men Policing Women's Trauma

Let's talk about hysteria and the "wandering uterus"...

The singer's conservatorship, on trial this month, recalls the history of hysterectomies, insane asylums, forced contraception, among others

07/21/2021

After Covid, Confronting Our Sorrow

How are you addressing any grief or sorrow you're carrying from the pandemic?

The reality of our isolation made losses even more difficult to bear.

07/20/2021

Esther Bejarano, 96, Dies; Auschwitz Survivor Fought Hate With Hip-Hop

May her memory be an inspiration to us all.

Esther Bejarano, who passed away at the age of 96, played accordion in the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz & formed a band with her children to sing antiwar and Jewish resistance songs. In her 80s, joined a hip-hop group that spread an antifascist message.

She played the accordion in the camp’s orchestra. Decades later, she spoke out against fascism and racism, using music as well as words.

07/20/2021

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

What?!

With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?

07/20/2021

Resistance 150: Indigenous artists challenge Canadians to reckon with our history - Chatelaine

Check out these incredible indigenous artists

'It’s time that people really listened to what Indigenous people have been saying for years.'

07/19/2021

Join Rachel Mesch and Lilith Intern Abby Fisher for a mother-daughter conversation about feminism and the power of language to shape it. Monday, July 26, 7-7:30 pm ET|6-6:30 pm CT|4-4:30 pm PT.

First time watching an Instagram live? Just go to Lilith's Instagram to watch the discussion.

Join Rachel Mesch and Lilith Intern Abby Fisher for a mother-daughter conversation about feminism and the power of language to shape it. Monday, July 26, 7-7:30 pm ET|6-6:30 pm CT|4-4:30 pm PT.

First time watching an Instagram live? Just go to Lilith's Instagram to watch the discussion.

07/19/2021

Investigation: How Jewish Youth Groups Are Breeding A Toxic Sexual Culture For Teens | New Voices

A must read from Shira Wolkenfeld & New Voices Magazine

For decades, major Jewish youth groups have cultivated pressure-based teen sexual cultures, leaving Jewish youth without support or education about sexuality and consent.

07/19/2021

A federal judge just declared DACA unlawful. Here’s what that means.

"The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I the LORD am your God." Vayikra 19:34

The decision halts DHS’s ability to accept new DACA applicants.

07/18/2021

The Feminist Case for Ending the Death Penalty - Ms. Magazine

Abolishing the death penalty IS a feminist issue

Capital punishment: The U.S. stands alone among its peers in executing its own citizens. Feminists lead the fight to abolish the death penalty.

07/18/2021

Grief, Weddings; Open First

"[W]hat do we do when things fall apart? How do we recover? And will we ever recover?" From Rabbi Jen Gubitz, the final piece in our Tisha B'Av blog series:

So what do we do when things fall apart? And how do we recover? Will we ever recover? I don’t know. I hope we do, but I have no idea how long it will take. But I think it starts with crying.

07/18/2021

After Covid, Confronting Our Sorrow

"We now find ourselves emerging and returning to one another in old and new ways. We can actively remember the losses we have experienced since last Tisha b’Av in the ways we decide to return and recommit to one another."

The reality of our isolation made losses even more difficult to bear.

07/17/2021

The most decorated Olympian in track and field history is giving fellow athletes $10K each for childcare

Amazing-- and every parent competing in the Olympics should have childcare!

Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix and her sponsor Athleta have created a $200,000 childcare fund for athletes competing this year.

07/17/2021

Eicha: Tisha B’Av in Plague Time

From the inimitable Alicia Ostriker, a poem for Tisha B'Av.

A poem by Alicia Ostriker

07/17/2021

Today I Will Eat Ashes

How do we hold space for brokenness? How do we remember this period of simultaneous loss and innovations? Leading up to Tisha B'av, read how Lilith writers are navigating these spaces.

Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.

07/17/2021

I Know Nothing About Tisha B’av

Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. @Rebecca S'manga Frank wries how she often feels like she's in a perpetual state of mourning.

"I am a Black Jew and I am maybe more whole since a white Jewish majority started inviting me to share my art and myself in a way that it never had before. I have connected and collaborated with more Jews of color and Black Jews than I ever dreamt was possible. But every time I receive an invitation there is a twinge in my body and I remember how we got here. "

Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. I often feel like I’m in a perpetual state of mourning.

07/16/2021

Millennial Jews Saw Ourselves in Tommy Pickles

Shabbat Shalom!

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Ask any millennial worth their nostalgic salt what they remember watching as a kid, and they will absolutely mention the '90s gem “Rugrats.” Created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon, “Rugrats” centered on a group of… well, rugrats, and their day-to-day adve...

07/16/2021

Tisha B’av: A Fable from Carolivia Herron

In this fable for Tisha B'av, Carolivia Herron reckons with ancestral grief–and how conflict is carried on to new generations.

In this fable, Carolivia Herron reckons with ancestral grief–and how conflict is carried on to new generations.

07/16/2021

Pijamama EP Album (Iraqis in Pajamas) - Khazzoom

Today is the release of Iraqis in Pajamas from #LoolwaKhazzoom! The album includes "three songs in English and Hebrew – fusing Iraqi Jewish prayers, original alternative rock, and/or personal storytelling."

https://khazzoom.com/product/pijamama-lp-album-iraqis-in-pajamas/

Iraqis in Pajamas album featuring three songs in English and Hebrew - fusing Iraqi Jewish prayers, original alternative rock, and/or personal storytelling. Pre-order now and receive 20% off, by putting “KHAZZOOMerch” in the coupon field at checkout. Better yet, become a KHAZZOOM Patreon member, ...

07/16/2021

My Own 'Unorthodox' Life Is Nothing Like the Netflix Series – Kveller

Have you watched "My Unorthodox Life"?

When I started becoming less religious in my 20s, I thought maybe there was a book in it. There was so much to unpack: the guilt I felt getting into a car on a Saturday afternoon, my stomach issues when I first began eating non-kosher chicken, my anger at a boyfriend who wanted to keep […]