Sexism confronted • Loudmouths celebrated • Foremothers in focus // A special issue celebrating fifty years of Lilith
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Any writer who works across fiction and non-fiction knows that each genre demands distinct modes—of thought, and of expression. Some writers, though, seem to have an entirely separate brain to... Read more »
Cabinets stacked like Jenga in the driveway, a refrigerator at the foot of the stairs, a passage of Torah on my phone’s lockscreen, and sawdust clouding our throats: This is... Read more »
Spring/Summer 1977 I’m shamelessly spotlighting my 1977 cover story, “Gentlemen’s Agreement at the Seminary” (on the cover as “Why is the Jewish Theological Seminary Afraid of This Woman?”). It’s quite... Read more »
Fall 1989 Susan Schnur’s piece about Trudie Strobel and the dolls she fashioned—recreating, with impressive accuracy, the restrictive garments Jewish women had been forced to wear over the centuries—made such... Read more »
Summer 2013 In “Making Lace and Money,” Natalie Elgrabli writes about Hurfeish, a Druze village in Northern Israel, which she visits to connect with a group of women known as... Read more »
This piece by Racelle Rosett (Z’L”) read as a chest-pounding declaration of “Hineni, Here I Am.” Rosett’s clarity and resolve were—and are—uplifting. —Susie Mann, Lilith contributor and inaugural New 40... Read more »
