independent, Jewish & frankly feminist 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.
Take yourself out for a night at the theater with Lilith! See "The Gett" on Dec. 1, 7pm, and stay for a post-show talkback with two brilliant Jewish women— Liba Vaynberg and Sarah Seltzer. Special ticket price for Lilith readers: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34100/production/1140002?promo=Lilith30
We love people who love to read. Check out this delightful conversation between the editors of Lilith's "Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women" and Jewish Book Council's "Paper Brigade."
This fall marks the publication of both Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (edit
The book of Genesis has all of the components of a soap opera. But Alicia Jo Rabins argues that we have something to learn from our beautiful, dysfunctional ancestors, fumbling their way through relationships and spirituality, learning as they go.
Those beautiful, dysfunctional ancestors, fumbling their way through relationships and spirituality, learning as they go.
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The state of Washington swore in their first Native American Supreme Court Justice, Raquel Montoya-Lewis, in 2020. She is Jewish and a descendant of the Pueblo of Laguna Indian tribe through her father. She is the first enrolled tribe member to sit on a state supreme court.
Peanut butter and chocolate. Cereal and milk. Lilith's "Frankly Feminist" and Jewish Book Council's "Paper Brigade"—great things made even better together!
In celebration of the two publications’ release, the four editors come together to discuss the processes behind their work, what excites them about Jewish fiction today, and the books they can’t wait to read in the near future.
This fall marks the publication of both Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (edit
This Thanksgiving and everyday, we must honor the Earth and the Indigenous folks who were here first.
From Lilith's spring 2021 issue, a 360 view of the "who," "what," "when," and "where" of Jewish ecofeminism:
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, founder of Dayenu, and Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, who links Judaism and the land, answer questions more urgent now than ever.
Need something to read while the Turkey's in the oven?
In our fall issue, Karen Bloom writes about family and "Thanksgiving longing."
Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving-themed painting is what we hope to replicate. When Cindy and I look at this picture, we see what family should be…
Let's hear it for the gloriously ordinary and mundane!
Blaze Ardman (from Lilith's The New 40 cohort) on the blessing of being nothing special.
Your mother has birthed a dozen offspring, Yet you alone are born as Nothing Special.
What makes "Frankly Feminist" unique?
"This is one of the few collections of short fiction that focuses exclusively on the work of Jewish women; the last one we are aware of was published in 1980." Yona Zeldis McDonough & Susan Weidman Schneider in conversation with Cindy Roesel.
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (BrandeisUniversityPress) edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yo...
Yes, You *Can* Be Native and Jewish | Jewish Women's Archive
Native Jews are not “divided” between two cultures but expanded by them.
Craving some innovative Thanksgiving recipes?
Look no further than Sephardic chef Susan Barocas' delicious stuffed fruits and veggies!
What better way to celebrate the abundance of the harvest than by stuffing vegetables with an abundance of meat, rice, vegetables and fruits! No wonder stuffed foods are a traditional favorite for …
Shlomit Bukaya, Executive Director of the Association of Ethiopian Jews(AEJ), ponders the future for Israelis of Ethiopian descent.
Israel should know how to stop discrimination.
FRANKLY FEMINIST: Short Stories by Jewish Women from LILITH Magazine Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (BrandeisUniversityPress) edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yo...
Melkam Sigd | חג סיגד שמח
Sigd, an ancient holiday observed by Ethiopian Jews, begins tonight! Check out this recipe from Beejhy Barhany for Dabo Ethiopian Bread.
Sigd is a holiday celebrating Jewish unity and diversity.
Check out this fantastic resource from Fat Torah for Thanksgiving!
We know that Thanksgiving and other gatherings of family and friends too often means dealing with fatphobia face to face. So we put this mini survival kit together to help folks cope. Get yours at tinyurl.com/FatphobicFamily
From M Jay Smith, a comic for trans children—each of you deserves a mishkan, a sacred space to dwell in safety and love.
"Our world is filled with beauty reflected from our individual worlds. May the memories of those we’ve lost carry their beauty forward, and may those of us who are alive continue the sacred act of being." Rabbi Becky Silverstein
Jewish tradition teaches that we are both partners with Gd in creating the world and that we are each a world unto ourselves. On Transgender Day of
"And I think of that obstetrician whose reach spans the decades. His impact descends down to my very core." Bonnie Friedman on medical misogyny her mother faced (and kept secret for years.)
The medical misogyny my mother faced (and kept secret for years.)
"I spent a long time trying not to notice. If I’m being honest, I wanted the freedom to consume the music I loved uncritically."
Marcella White Campbell on breaking up with Ye.
On the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin on the shame that was covered up with White-Out and black ink.
"The heart of Sigd is in the renewal of the covenants between a person and God, a person and the community, and a person and society." Shula Mola for Jewish Book Council
I have a powerful memory of my last Sigd in Ethiopia in November 1983. Sigd is a holiday of the Ethiopian Jewish community which takes place fifty days after Yom Kippur each year.
It’s a night of theater with Lilith! On Thursday, December 1, join us for the 7 pm performance of "The Gett" at Rattlestick Theater in Greenwich Village. Stay for a post-show discussion between Liba Vaynberg, The Gett‘s playwright and star, and Sarah Seltzer, Lilith’s Executive Editor.
Click here to receive a special ticket price for Lilith readers: https://bit.ly/Lilith30
Want to hear a secret? Lilith’s latest issue is live online! Read now at lilith.org. Link in bio.
📢 📢"All-of-a-Kind Family" is being developed into a live-action one-hour drama series📢📢
How will it deviate from the series? When Ilana Kurshan read her twin daughters these beloved childhood novels, she had to do a lot of explaining...
The story of Sydney Taylor, author of the beloved All-of-a-Kind-Family stories.
The trans community has often been hesitant to engage in critical discussion about the dangers and risks of HRT for fear that we may lose the scarce, often life-saving care that activists have long fought to achieve. But as a growing number of people are choosing to transition via medication, we need to know about the effects on our reproductive health, interactions with other medications, and pre-existing physical as well as mental health conditions.
From Lilith's Summer 2022 Issue, Rena Yehuda Newman on creating a testosterone survey to counter medical neglect.
Many of us learned about the details of medical transition through online forums and anecdotal experience, rarely with the help of medical practitioners and hardly ever with the guidance of well-fu…
... but Jewishly. Why do you love your birth control?
Today Lilith is revisiting this article by Amie Newman from 2018. Read with us at the link in our bio.
This is tonight & there's still time to register!
This Wednesday, Nov. 16, join Brandeis University & Susan Weidman Schneider ’65, founder and editor of Lilith Magazine – independent, Jewish, and feminist – to discuss her career, activism, and Jewish feminism, as seen through the magazine and in the brand-new book “Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine.”
Open to all alums and friends of Brandeis: https://brandeis.imodules.com/s/1614/20/interior.aspx?sid=1614&gid=1&pgid=6035&content_id=6704
Belonging is an elusive topic, perhaps especially for Jews. Yet the drive to belong remains an essential human urge—even as boundaries of self, community and place continuously evolve.
On Sunday, Dec. 4, 6-7 pm ET, five Jewish women poets, ages 24-84, will explore what it means to find ourselves among the shifting landscape of belonging. Join Lilith magazine, Rhiannon McGavin (), Mónica Gomery(), Hila Ratzabi (), Joy Ladin, and Alicia Ostriker for an evening of poetry and a space where—even for just an evening—we might cultivate together a feeling of belonging. RSVP: bit.ly/tobelong
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Happy !🎉🧿️ ✡️✨ This November, and all year round, you're invited to 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 + 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝘇𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗶 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 from the Middle East + North Africa. Whether you’re looking to connect with your roots or discover the flavors of the greater 🌍 Jewish , there's a seat at the table for you to share + uplift traditions at your Shabbat dinner.
💝 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝘇𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 this month and use the word "Mizrahi" in your dinner title or description to receive an exclusive discount for 🇲🇦 Casablanca Market! Plus, you'll be entered to 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 by groundbreaking Mizrahi/Sephardic community leaders + creators:
📚𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥: 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 by Sina Mizrahi
📚𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦𝘸: 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘻𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘪 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰 by Hen Mazzig
📚𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, edited by Loolwa Khazzoom
👉 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 onetable.org/mizrahi-shabbat for a special Mizrahi Heritage Shabbat supplement co-created with our partners JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, music, poetry + films to get started!
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The Indian Child Welfare Act helped keep indigenous families together. Now SCOTUS could tear the law apart.
"There was a direct line from his donning a MAGA hat and palling around with Donald Trump to very real, very visible violence against people of color." Read Marcella White Campbell on the Lilith blog wrestling with an ongoing question—can you separate art from the artist?
On the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
This Wednesday, Nov. 16, join Brandeis University & Susan Weidman Schneider ’65, founder and editor of Lilith Magazine – independent, Jewish, and feminist – to discuss her career, activism, and Jewish feminism, as seen through the magazine and in the brand-new book “Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine.”
Open to all alums and friends of Brandeis: https://brandeis.imodules.com/s/1614/20/interior.aspx?sid=1614&gid=1&pgid=6035&content_id=6704
"Stella had a tragic encounter with one of the major cataclysms of the twentieth century when her entire community was deported to Auschwitz."
On the Lilith blog, Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Michael Frank about his latest book, ONE HUNDRED SATURDAYS, which tells the story of Holocaust survivor Stella Levi, through her eyes.
Stella had a tragic encounter with one of the major cataclysms of the twentieth century when her entire community was deported to Auschwitz.
Your task for this weekend—Ask all the older people you know and care for every question you can think of—right away.
In "One Hundred Saturdays," author Michael Frank spent 100 Saturdays with Stella Levi learning about the Juderia, the Jewish neighborhood on a luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean.
Stella had a tragic encounter with one of the major cataclysms of the twentieth century when her entire community was deported to Auschwitz.
❗TOMORROW EVENING❗Join Women of Reform Judaism for a lively conversation between two frank feminists—Susan Weidman Schneider & Yona Zeldis McDonough. They'll discuss editing Lilith's first short story collection, "Frankly Feminist," and 45 years of publishing Jewish feminist fiction.
RSVP: https://urj.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucuCrpj4rGdEGrBVAe2rlbG8nIyHUgQaw
Your weekend short fiction from Abigail Fisher.
“Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: in the case of a woman who discharges a fetus that has the form of a lilith (a female demon with wings and a human face) its mother is impure with the impurity of a woman after childbirth as it is a viable offspring, only it has wings.” —Babylonian Talmud, Niddah 24b
Lily’s wings were small—handfuls of feathers protruding from stubborn shoulders. Using an eyebrow tweezing kit, her mother would gently pluck those early feathers and smooth them down with a saliva…
This Monday, Nov. 14 @ 8pm ET, join Women of Reform Judaism for a discussion between two frank feminists— Susan Weidman Schneider, Lilith’s Editor in Chief, and Yona Zeldis McDonough, Lilith’s Fiction Editor.
Susan and Yona will share how Frankly Feminist came to be and introduce some of the anthology’s authors, stories, characters, and themes, as we begin an exploration of the texts together.
RSVP: https://urj.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucuCrpj4rGdEGrBVAe2rlbG8nIyHUgQaw
"She is the candle that has not yet been lit,
the matches on the ledge behind the sink
waiting to be taken, to be brushed along
the coarse striking surface, a wavering flame."
-Jamie Wendt
Shabbat shalom.
She is the braid of the challah twisted between second grade bible stories and the breath of modern Israel. She is turning off the oven, placing trays of sliced meat and bowls of sectioned fruit on…
Hormonal motion and change is a rite of passage on the sea of change for most women (as well as many people of all genders), but Lili Rosen knows what it is to live without estrogen.
From Lilith's Summer 2022 Issue.
Hormone, n. (Greek) “setting in motion.” “It is known that the angels are deemed ‘those who are standing [still]’ as are souls before they arrive in this world… Only after the souls descend t…
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With our bodies under attack—how can Jewish feminists respond? Lilith writers Steph Black, SooJi Min-Maranda, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, and Dena Robinson, will look at reproductive justice and our precious bodily autonomy from many different angles: political, personal, collective, and individual. We’ll conclude the evening with a reading from Beth Kanter’s short story, “Paved with Gold”—published in Frankly Feminist, Lilith’s groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Join Lilith to witness, reflect, and envision what comes next.
Whoever said February is the shortest month of the year didn’t live in cold climate! Of course, there’s even been snow in Jerusalem recently, and wherever you live, we've been dealing with the pandemic for nearly two years now. Social isolation, disrupted holidays and special events, uncertainty about work and health…. We can definitely all use some comfort food! Join Chef Susan Barocas in her warm kitchen to talk about and cook comfort food from both the Sephardic and Ashkenazic cultures. Maybe we can even help February not seem like the longest month of the year!
Join New Voices Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and Jewish Women's Archive as we deepen the dialogue around this topic and hear about how the conversation is changing, envisioning a Jewish youth culture without sexual harassment and misconduct by asking, “What would Jewish youth groups and summer camps look like with empowered consent cultures?” Featuring Rachel Faulkner (SRE Network), Ellanora Lerner (Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent), and Drew Fidler (BBYO's Center for Adolescent Wellness).
With Thanksgiving and Hannukkah back-to-back this year, we're combining the best seasonal dishes with a deep appreciation for those who grow our food. Join Lilith magazine for a discussion with Chef Susan Barocas and Esther Siegel, co-owner of Licking Creek Bend Farm, about eating seasonally, growing sustainably and more. Then we'll move into the kitchen with Chef Susan to make delicious holiday food using Licking Creek Bend Farm's fresh produce.
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