Lilith Magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style. The magazine features award-winning investigative reports, new rituals and celebrations, first-person accounts both contemporary and historical, entertainment reviews, fiction and poetry, art and photography.
One tough octogenarian
When she heard the banging on her door, 82-year-old Willie Murphy knew immediately something wasn’t right. Then the man smashed his way into her Rochester, N.Y. home.
Poetry in our new issue by Penny Jackson...
He stood there, waiting forthe104 bus.An old man with a canewearing a shabby black coatand carrying an umbrellaeven though the sidewalksparkled with sun.Just another old man on the Upper West Side....
Welcome to the neighborhood!
The show, “Ahlan Simsim,” which means “Welcome Sesame” in Arabic, aims to tackle the trauma facing refugee children in the Middle East.
Real courage
Mum-of-two hailed as a hero after footage widely shared on social media showed her coming to defence of Jewish family on London Underground
Nessa Rapoport, a feminist, observant Jew is still searching for holiness in community — and a locus for her fullest self.
This feminist, observant Jew is still searching for holiness in community — and a locus for her fullest self.
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"“The main thing I hope that I take away from [my bat mitzvah] is that I inspire some of my friends to maybe study the Torah."- Tiffany Haddish
Like me, Tiffany Haddish will be celebrating her bat mitzvah in December, but that is where the similarities between our coming-of-age ceremonies end. Mine was on the eve of my 13th birthday, in the suburbs of New York City, and Tiffany's will be a red carpet event on her 40th birthday, the day her
"Passing" is not always the goal
The nature of my specifically transgender womanhood is something that I am proud to own.
Beautiful
Muxes are indigenous transgender women who mix gay male and feminine identities.
Building relationships through creativity in Akko
Shishi Nashim--“Friday Women”--is the joint initiative of two grassroots organizations in Akko: the Educators Kibbutz and Akko Women’s Vision. The two organizations have been working to spark incre...
Fiction from our new issue by Tamar Hodes...
The water is a silk sari, pleating, unraveling beneath us, falling away. Eucalyptus trees blink in the morning sunlight. I am on a boat on the Sea of Galilee, with my aunts Esther and Hannah. With ...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital and is home after having experienced chills and a fever, the Supreme Court announced Sunday.
Please share your jokes below
The revolutionary male contraceptive is reportedly effective for 13 years and is said to have passed clinical trials with flying colors.
Then the doctor has to travel back in time and warn Amelia Earhart...but she never listens.
Ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, cannot be salvaged. Attempting to reimplant the tissue is dangerous.
Just aa bunch of colors
Nine of the biggest, most LGBTQ-supportive corporations in America gave about $1 million or more each to anti-gay politicians in the last election cycle. Companies like AT&T, UPS, Comcast, Home Depot and General Electric. All told, their donations totaled almost $15 million.
More suggested reading about periods.
More suggested reading about periods.
When friendship becomes work
When the term “emotional labor” was first coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in her 1983 book The Managed Heart, she described it as a burden placed on workers under capitalism. Workers might do physical labor, pushing carts, running machines, but they also often perform labor that “requir...
A war on women living in poverty
In a region wrestling with alarming rates of gender-based violence, El Salvador stands out for its relentless persecution of women suspected of having abortions.
Be a good girl
The children skipped out of the country and laughed on the shiny deck.
Desperately wishing for a speedy recovery
The 86-year-old justice was hospitalized on Friday, but in a statement the Supreme Court said her symptoms "have abated," and she could be released as early as Sunday morning.
🌶️🍄Shabbat Shalom!
Photo credit Ellen Silverman. My grandfather on my mother’s side, Francisco, whom we called “Yeye,” was wild about chiles. Not ...
No white nationalists in the WH is quite the ask...
The Anti-Defamation League, Bend the Arc, and the Union for Reform Judaism joined in calling for the removal of Trump’s senior advisor.
Brooklyn in black & white
I absolutely loved photography, but I went back to teaching when the sabbatical was over; I left the job 11 years later, in 1999, and began doing photography full-time.
Chanel Dubofsky on period-tracking apps, unsettling performance art, a new take on mikvah, and wiping away stigma and rusty taboos.
Chanel Dubofsky on period-tracking apps, unsettling performance art, a new take on mikvah, and wiping away stigma and rusty taboos.
What do you think?
The metaphors are a little heavy-handed, but the driving is impressive and the timing is impeccable. On the same day CNN reported that the CIA had to withdraw one of its top spies in Russia on fears that President Trump had compromised the spy's identity, former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame la...
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'We are grabbing our own microphones'
Who's in for Truthsgiving?
In this op-ed, Christine Nobiss, MA (Religious Studies), Plains Cree/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation and Decolonizer with Seeding Sovereignty, explains why she organized Truthsgiving in resistance to Thanksgiving. Her work with Seeding…
Sarah Groustra on how her high-school journalism led to free tampons in the town's bathrooms.
Sarah Groustra on how her high-scool journalism led to free tampons in the town's bathrooms.
What else could our world be? #TDOR #TransDayOfResilience
Five poets and five visual artists honor trans lives lost to violence and tell us what resilience means to them.
#essential
Starting Jan. 1, menstrual products will be considered “necessary” items, as bread, books and cut flowers are.
So retrograde gender stereotypes are cool if applied "equally"? 👍
The Trump DOJ's attack on LGBTQ+ rights has implications for cis women and girls, too.
We are in a state of emergency for Black transgender women. Remember their names. #TDOR #Yizkor
Some agencies have decried the deaths as a state of emergency.
GO TEAM TRANS!
Team Trans, believed to be the only entirely transgender sports squad in the United States, recently played together for the first time.
Alice Sparberg Alexiou on girls' accounts of abuse at the hands of their Jewish pediatrician; how journalism helps change laws.
Alice Sparberg Alexiou on girls' accounts of abuse at the hands of their Jewish pediatrician; how journalism helps change laws.
Art (and sock monkeys) heal
I am proud that fresh art has been able to provide underserved folks with an opportunity to express themselves and, for a few hours a week, maybe feel a little better about their lives. I hope thi...
The information you've been waiting for
Thanksgivukkah has come and gone, but over here at The Nosher we think it’s always fun to bring Jewish dishes ...
"The U.S. has the highest child incarceration rate in the world." FULL STOP.
The U.S. incarceration rate of children is "the highest that we could find, followed by others like Bolivia, or Botswana, or Sri Lanka," says the author of a new U.N. study on children's rights.
Meet Abby Stein
To live her truest life, a transgender woman says goodbye to everything she's ever known.
Sarah Seltzer asks Hannah Dreyfus how she exposed inappropriate behaviors by powerful men.
Sarah Seltzer asks Hannah Dreyfus how she exposed inappropriate behaviors by powerful men.
Did you succumb?
Some women dream of wearing the traditional wedding dress. Others say if you need it to feel good about yourself, then something is wrong.
Literally putting survivors on trial
We often talk ruefully about how the U.S. judicial system will “put the victim on trial" in sexual assault cases. But when it comes to people applying for asylum in the U.S., that's literally what happens.
The Jewish social capital that comes from looking like Anne Frank
“Stage Fright” is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
Looking back at the surgery decades later, noted poet Alicia Ostriker confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.
Looking back at the surgery decades later, the noted poet confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.
Decriminalize sex work!
On Thursday, the congresswoman introduced a landmark criminal justice resolution that did not ignore sex workers' needs.
Racism...bad!
We’re all racist, it’s just a question of how well we’ve figured out how to justify it to ourselves.
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