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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Delving into a Family Tragedy

1 week ago | lilith.org | Eleanor Bader

From earliest childhood,Marty Ross-Dolan knew her mother, Patricia Louise Myers, (called Patsy) to be both “fiercely determined” and independent. But she also knew that something weighed her mother down, and saw that she wore a perpetual cloak of sadness, something she later recognized as grief.
Shabbes is Punk

1 week ago | lilith.org | Diana Gitig

“More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews,” turn-of-the-twentieth century cultural Zionist Ahad Ha’am famously maintained. Shabbat observance can be construed as transgressive in its circumscription of modern technology, whatever “modern technology” entailed in whatever century the Jews happened to find themselves. Keeping Shabbat can be onerous, yes; but perhaps therein lies its power, and its means of keeping us.
A Chronically Ill Holiday Ritual

1 month ago | lilith.org | Gila Axelrod

This Passover, my girlfriend and I were going to celebrate with my family in Philadelphia. We planned to sing at my grandfather’s birthday party, and then I would co-lead our two big seders with my father. But last Friday, Hannah walked into our room to find me in bed, pale and coughing, surrounded by snotty tissues and pills, staring dejectedly at my plane ticket. She wasn’t shocked—my chronic illness has been progressing for over 10 years, and at this point, my body is unpredictable.
Abortion Is in Trouble.

Mar 10, 2025 | lilith.org | Chanel Dubofsky

Here’s How to Help. Well before November 2024, we began to see major setbacks to the basic right to bodily autonomy—the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Texas’s terrifying SB8 (whose implications reach far beyond the state’s borders), and Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ bill, to name a few. One of the results of all this legislation is a sense that those who care about this issue—all of us—feel powerless, which is, of course, the point.
What Makes a Love Story: Jessica Soffer On Her New Novel

Mar 5, 2025 | 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

Feb 26, 2025 | 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?