Lilith Magazine

Since its founding in 1976, Lilith magazine has been an independent publication that highlights the experiences of Jewish women with enthusiasm, depth, love, creativity, and a touch of rebellion. Its goal is to serve as a catalyst for feminist change within the Jewish community by elevating the voices of Jewish women, promoting a positive view of Judaism for women, raising awareness about gender issues, and inspiring Jewish women and girls to imagine and create positive transformations in their own lives and communities.

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What Makes a Love Story: Jessica Soffer On Her New Novel

1 month ago | lilith.org | Arielle Silver-Willner

This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer (Dutton, $29) emerged shortly before Valentine’s Day, but it’s not a romance novel in the traditional sense. The story centers around a couple, Jane and Abe, reflecting on their 50 years of marriage–some sweet, some bitter, many both. Love, however, takes many forms throughout the story: Tender, joyful friendship; yearning for a beloved deceased mother; a complicated parent-child dynamic; a lifelong devotion to art.
Finally, a Holocaust Movie That Trusts Us

1 month ago | lilith.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

By now, I hope you have seen “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg’s feature detailing the relationship and experience of two estranged cousins touring (once) Jewish Poland at the behest and expense of their late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. If you have not, let me sell it to you with the observation that sold it for me: a Holocaust movie without any fucking lessons. Life is Beautiful this is not: it’s not even Schindler’s List.
From the Blacklist to the Ghost List

Nov 26, 2024 | lilith.org | Miriam Libicki

INVENTION XX (2022), COURTESY OF LYNNE AVADENKA Miriam Libicki • Age 43 // Graphic novelist, Vancouver, CanadaIn April of 2024, I exhibited at Van- CAF, a local comics festival, where I had tabled for a dozen years.
Ready to Create a New Form of Judaism

Nov 26, 2024 | lilith.org | Elliot Kukla

INVENTION XX (2022), COURTESY OF LYNNE AVADENKA Rabbi Elliot Kukla • Age 49 // Author and faculty at SVARA: a traditionally radical yeshiva, CaliforniaAt home, we have just started introducing the concept of the Holocaust to our child, which we hadn’t before. I’m a second generation survivor, and in my Holocaust education I was really introduced to the Holocaust as a very singular experience.
The Torah of Our Mothers

Nov 12, 2024 | lilith.org | Adina Allen

Moses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly. (Pirke Avot 1:1) This, state the traditional texts, is where our Torah comes from, through a lineage of male, intellectual inheritance. To be sure, this lineage is part of the life-blood of tradition. We need the learning of our fathers. But the Torah itself reminds us: the Torah of our fathers is not sufficient.
“Write Like a Man”

Nov 7, 2024 | lilith.org | Ronnie Grinberg

The New York Intellectuals v. Women’s Liberation A new take on mid-century writing dissects the influence and power of a posse of writers—not all Jewish, or all men—who encompassed “secular Jewish machismo,” a unique combination of American protestant competitiveness, a touch of outsider’s pique and a Jewish emphasis on book-learning. And when this brand of machismo—starring writers like Norman Mailer and Philip Roth—butted heads with the nascent, powerful feminist movement?
I’m Not Going to Shut Up.

Nov 7, 2024 | lilith.org | Joanna Chen

Joanna ChenProfession: Literary Translator, Ela Valley, IsraelAntisemitism is the shadow stretching around the corner; it’s the furtive whispering you hear behind your back, although you do not catch every word. It’s the tiny pause that hangs in a room when you finish speaking and makes you wonder if you said something wrong. It puts you on the defensive. It shuts you up. But I’m not going to shut up. I write when I have something to say.
Make Me Afraid, and then Blame it on Me.

Nov 7, 2024 | lilith.org | Chanel Dubofsky

Chanel Dubofsky • Age 44 Writer, Brooklyn, New YorkTell me again how we’ve been here before, but also how it is different this time. Tell me how I am making it up, how talking about Jewish pain is a selfish distraction, how I am making excuses, how I am not a real feminist, a real anti-racist, a real anything. Tell me what words mean and what histories mean and what actually happened on that day, and on the other days before it, and what has happened since.
Collection

Oct 31, 2024 | lilith.org | Chanel Dubofsky

Google search history: how long is beauty school, the carpet from The Shining, beaches West Virginia, burnt leeks and beans. Shabbat times – Hudson, NY, paranormal research groups, towns in New Jersey, cartomancy, Acheinu, what is the day today. A silver ring engraved: Gam Zeh Ya’avor — “This Too Will Pass.” Hebrew vocabulary word: mamad — saferoom.
How Much Can a Heart Break in One Year?

Oct 31, 2024 | lilith.org | Mikhal Weiner

Throughout this unspeakably long year, I have felt so many things — fear, horror, helplessness, rage, indignation, despair, desperation, isolation, loneliness — and now, finally, it has settled in my chest and belly as an ocean of grief. As I was writing these words, my phone was pinging with messages about vigils. My sweet and wonderful wife sang at two of these — a private one for our local community of Israelis and a public one at a local synagogue.