Lilith Magazine

04/28/2025

This Mother's Day, celebrate the moms, mentors and matriarchs in your life by supporting Jewish feminist journalism in their honor! When you make a donation of $180--or more--by May 12th, we'll send you Lilith's brand new tote bag,* featuring Lilith's original 1976 logo, sustainably made by a women-owned local business.

In our online donation form or on your check, be sure to write "in honor of..." or "in memory of..." we'll let your honoree know about the dedication (if they're reachable) and print their name on the donor page in the summer issue of Lilith. Visit the link in the comments below for our online donation form ⬇️

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04/28/2025

Diane Mehta reminds us to take a moment to lounge under the trees! Read more of what she has to say about poetry, art, family, and faith in a Q&A with Lilith’s fiction editor Yona Zeldis McDonough.

Read more at Lilith.org!

04/28/2025

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we are revisiting this poem by Rhiannon McGavin inspired by tkhines (Yiddish women's prayer books).

Learn more about Rhiannon's poetry in this 2021 interview for Lilith Online: https://buff.ly/jwbZ9iS

04/27/2025

We're back with another BTS peek into life in the Lilith office!

This is: "Anatomy of a book shelf perusal" -- featuring Susan Weidman Schneider revisiting some of the many Jewish feminist poetry books we've collected over the past 49 years.

How are you celebrating National Poetry Month?

04/26/2025

Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Your friends at Lilith encourage you to go out and visit your local bookstore if you can! Keep an eye out for your favorite Jewish feminist books, including "Frankly Feminist," and send us a picture. And if you can’t make it to a physical bookstore (or even if you can!), Lilith has an online bookstore, filled with books written and recommended by our contributors: https://buff.ly/j517V1l

Illustration by Rebecca Katz ().

04/25/2025

ICYMI: BIG things are happening at Lilith—and you'll want you to be part of them! As Lilith's community grows, our commitment to bringing you groundbreaking, independent Jewish feminist journalism and programs continues to grow and flourish.

In one week, for the first time in 13 years, we'll be adjusting our subscription pricing so we can continue to bring you Lilith's unique writing and thinking. As a valued reader, right now you now have a limited-time opportunity to lock in our current rate before the rate increases on May 1st.

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04/25/2025

Is there a family story knocking around your head, begging to be written down? Now is the time.

On Wednesday, April 30, 8 pm ET| 5 pm PT, join Lilith’s Jewish feminist memoir-writing workshop! During this Lilith subscriber-exclusive event, share (virtual) space with other Lilith insiders and learn from author Esther Amini. No prior writing experience is necessary to participate.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/LilithSubscriberMemoir

He casually asked if my sixth-grade classmates were wearing bras.

04/24/2025

"My parents were Holocaust people: Jews who fought and lived through the N**i, antisemitic, xenophobic horrors. Consequently, perhaps genetically, I have always kept one ear to the ground, listening for the sound of marching boots and peering into the distance for the shadows of smoke."

A songbird and performer says that lately, she’s a chicken looking for courage.

04/24/2025

"The narratives of [North African] Jewish women provide a lens through which one can view, freshly, how gender, class, ethnicity and nationality affect what is often assumed to be a somewhat homogenous Jewish experience."

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When reading about and listening to Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews on what went on in Europe and the camps during WWII, the word “silence” or “silenced” often occurs.

04/24/2025

This self-portrait of Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish artist who was murdered in Auschwitz, graced the cover of Lilith's Winter 1994-1995 Issue. Her extraordinary autobiographical paintings and illustrations depict her life during the N**i Party's rise to power.

This issue included a special Holocaust section, featuring five women's stories of survival. Read it now at lilith.org: https://buff.ly/LjOVOu5

04/24/2025

"We must teach the Holocaust to our children and our grandchildren. It must be our new Hagadah. We must never forget. Never. Never."

Rediscover this powerful conversation with Israeli actress Gila Almagor from Lilith's Spring 1991 issue here: https://buff.ly/JcbaGU2

04/24/2025

An evocative read for Yom HaShoah from Lilith's Winter 1994-1995 issue: A daughter of Holocaust survivors gives us chilling instructions.

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A daughter of Holocaust survivors gives us chilling instructions.

04/24/2025

Raise your hand if you turn to Barbra for spiritual direction. https://lilith.org/articles/barbra-streisand-was-my-rabbi/

Artist Deborah Kass examines the tensions among popular culture, fine art, and identity. In her Warhol Project (1992-2000), Kass appropriated Warhol's techniques, colors, and compositions. “Six Blue Barbras” retroactively introduces Barbra Streisand to the pantheon of female celebrities portrayed by Warhol in the early 1960s and positions her as an icon of Jewish womanhood.

“Seeing Barbra Streisand as a 13-year-old from Long Island whose parents were from Queens, the Bronx, via Lower East Side, was very powerful… Barbra looked like people I knew, sounded like people I knew. Barbra didn’t change her name, didn’t change her nose… And her sense of herself and of her difference as the source of glamour and power—being this proud Jewess was very radical.

When you see your reflection in the world for the first time, it is life altering. Looking at Barbra, her unambivalent, glorious self-regard as a woman and a Jew, I realized I hadn’t seen anyone like her, like me, in popular culture before. That is major, and that is powerful. And that also points to work to be done.” — Deborah Kass

🎨: Deborah Kass, “Six Blue Barbras (The Jewish Jackie Series),” 1992. Screenprint and acrylic on canvas.