Lilith Magazine

01/28/2025

If ever there was a time for comfort food, it’s now.

01/27/2025

"The feeling in the pit of my stomach from seeing these beautiful children on the news hits me because I feel like I know. I don’t know what it feels to be torn from your parents at a young age, but I know what it feels like to be a child of someone torn from their parents at a young age. Because of my experience with my father who was on the kindertransport in the Holocaust, I not only feel for these children, but feel for their children and generations to come that will feel the burden of this horror."

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are revisiting "How Family Separation in the Holocaust Affected My Life Forever."

Read it now at Lilith Online:

My father’s separation from his parents at a young age left him a broken, forever-grieving man. Sometimes I felt his body was physically there, but his soul had long left.

01/24/2025

Shabbat shalom.
This is the energy we'll be marching into the new week with...but first, rest.
Portrait of Eta Wrobel from the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, featured on Lilith's spring 2009 cover. Read Lilith's "Partisanas" at the link below.

Uncovering female resistance to the N***s, historian Stobl notices a modest self-dismissal: many of these women never identify their profoundly serious, courageous and – yes – defiant b…

01/22/2025

Hi! I’m Yael Bright (she/her) and I am so honored to officially be a part of the Lilith team as a spring semester intern! I am a soon-to-be graduate of Columbia University studying Creative Writing and Media. I have dedicated my college career to writing and editing, indulging in stories like summer shade. In my free time, I enjoy cooking, writing screenplays, doodling, or ideally talking to my Safta. I am looking forward to learning from the fabulous storytelling powerhouse that is the Lilith staff and so grateful to be a part of this change-making team!

01/21/2025

We are at a critical moment in reproductive justice history and many of us are afraid of what is to come. Amidst the fear, however, we must cling to the power we have — one way we can do this is through bold feminist storytelling and truth-telling.

Today we're revisiting the poignant stories in Lilith's Summer 2022 issue, "Our Bodies Under Attack." Read it now at lilith.org: https://buff.ly/3AVLep6

01/21/2025

Just a reminder of some good news from last week on this dreary day:

"After a century of tireless advocacy, history has finally been made. President Biden’s recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution marks a monumental shift for our nation. For the first time, our Constitution will affirm that gender equality is not just a value but a protected right for all Americans. While President Biden’s approach to affirming the ERA will be challenged legally, we support and are in full agreement with his argument that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment."

After a century of tireless advocacy, history has finally been made. President Biden’s recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution marks a monumental shift for our nation.

01/20/2025

"We, as a Jewish community do the legacy of Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel a disservice by looking to the past instead of addressing what is occuring in the present. We do a disservice to our communities by talking about tikkun olam instead of living it."

Read "A Challenge to White Jews on MLK Day" (2019) by Erika Davis now at Lilith Online:

Jews of color are not the stranger the Torah reminds us to welcome. We are your brothers and sisters.

01/17/2025

Shabbat Shalom 🕯️ 🕯️
What are your favorite Lilith cover designs?

Collage of archival Lilith cover clippings by our Assistant Editor, Arielle Silver-Willner

01/16/2025

Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves... and be sure to follow Lilith on Bluesky!

https://buff.ly/4gYYlWE

01/15/2025

Hello! My name is Jocelyn Lewis and I am starting an internship at Lilith today. In May, I graduated from Connecticut College with a double major in English & Dance. In addition to interning at Lilith, I also work as a dance teacher for children and adults with disabilities. In my free time I enjoy reading, watching movies, doing yoga, and spending time outdoors! I am looking forward to working and learning with this thoughtful team :)

01/14/2025

"For me, being a Jewish woman in the climate movement means: I’ve got ancestors at my back. I carry on traditions of joy and resistance and finding hope in community."

Discover "Striking For the Climate, Praying With My Feet" by Laura Mandelberg now at Lilith online: https://buff.ly/4jhCafT

01/13/2025

This Thursday, January 16th: "Know Your Rights, Find Your Voice" — a critical gathering exploring the role of faith communities in supporting the newest New Yorkers, co-sponsored by Interfaith Center NY, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Riverside NYC.

This event will provide resources and networking opportunities to faith communities, including Know Your Rights Training, legal protections, and spiritual/theological resources.

Learn more and sign up for this event here: https://buff.ly/40w3j7A

01/12/2025

"This is perhaps the best depiction I’ve read of the experience of being a caregiver for other people’s children."

In the current issue of Lilith, Shayna Goodman reviews Fruit of the Dead, Rachel Lyon's "luscious and enveloping retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter."

This is perhaps the best depiction I’ve read of the experience of being a caregiver for other people’s children.

01/10/2025

🩵 Shabbat Shalom 🩵

Art: Betsy Walton, “Testify.” Morningcraft.com

01/09/2025

All of us at Lilith HQ are sending strength to those who are experiencing the horrors of the California wildfires this week.

And for those who have the safety and space to do so, may we find the energy to turn fear and grief into action, as a community.

In Lilith's Spring 2021 issue, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn spoke to Lilith's Arielle Silver-Willner about creating Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action and the urgency of climate justice. Read it here: https://lilith.org/articles/debut-89/

01/07/2025

Last Friday marked the swearing-in of the 119th United States Congress! Lilith is sending a huge mazel tov to Michigan’s newly elected senator and former Lilith cover star, Senator Elissa Slotkin! Much to our delight, she was sworn in on a copy of "The Torah: A Women's Commentary," edited by Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss.

Revisit our Summer 2018 issue featuring Senator Slotkin here: https://buff.ly/3C2b37Z

01/06/2025

Feeling fired up as we kick off the first full week of 2025? Us too!

Read your Jewish horoscope for the month of Tevet by GoldHerring at Lilith Online now!

Collage by Rebecca Katz.

https://buff.ly/4h0Vpsi

01/05/2025

Meet the 2025 cohort of Lilith's New 40 fellowship!

The Lilith team is so excited to welcome a new group of emerging Jewish feminist writers over 45 for a year of learning and original storytelling.

And keep your eyes peeled for new writing from previous cohorts in upcoming issues of Lilith!