LILITH Magazine — Independent, Jewish & Frankly Feminist   Why is the magazine called LILITH?   According to myth and legend, Lilith was the first woman, created before Eve. She was Adam’s absolute equal. In the Garden of Eden, long before the eating of the apple, the Holy One created the first human beings — a man named Adam, and a woman named Lilith. Lilith said, "We are equal because we are created from the same earth." — from the medieval text Alphabet of Ben Sira, 23a-b     LILITH magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style. The magazine features award-winning investigative reports, new rituals and celebrations, first-person accounts both contemporary and historical, entertainment reviews, fiction and poetry, art and photography. LILITH is an independent publication, made possible through the support of individuals and foundations. LILITH brings new ideas and interpretations of the zeitgeist before they become cover stories in other news magazines. LILITH's coverage of "J.A.P. baiting" on college campuses, publications of works of "forgotten" women writers, analysis of infertility among Jewish women, reports on clergy abuse, women's philanthropy, body image and eating disorders, and crises for interfaith families has spurred extensive media attention Writers include established names like Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Nessa Rapoport, Blu Greenberg, Allegra Goodman, Myla Goldberg and more. And LILITH brings you emerging writers whom you’ll meet first in these pages.

Who We Are

Staff

SUSAN WEIDMAN SCHNEIDER, Lilith Editor in Chief since 1976, is one of Lilith's founding mothers. She is the author of the books Jewish and Female and Intermarriage: The Challenge of Living with Differences between Christians and Jews, and co-author of Head and Heart, about money in the lives of women. Her writing has been widely anthologized, and she lectures in North America, Europe and Israel on a range of feminist issues. She divides her time between New York City and Washington, DC.
susanws@lilith.org

NAOMI DANIS, Managing Editor, compiles Lilith's resource pages, and occasionally translates from Hebrew to English in the magazine and elsewhere. She is the author of two children's books, Walk With Me and Splish-Splash. She lives in Forest Hills, New York. Click here for her whole-wheat chocolate-chip cookie recipe, a favorite food in the Lilith office.
naomi@lilith.org

Rabbi SUSAN SCHNUR, Editor at Large, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and describes Lilith as her "paper pulpit." Best known for a weekly series of columns in The New York Times ("Hers"), she has written for national publications and her work has been widely anthologized and reprinted. She lives in Boston.

MELANIE WEISS, Lilith Assistant Editor, is a graduate student at JTS, as well as a regular contributor to the magazine and blog moderator. She reads and writes on issues of identity politics in modern Jewish life and literature, and lives in Brooklyn.
melanie@lilith.org

YONA ZELDIS MCDONOUGH, Lilith's Fiction Editor, is the author of the novels The Four Temperments and In Dahlia's Wake, as well as the editor of The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty and All The Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader. In addition, she has written numerous books for children and her book, The Doll With The Yellow Star, is the 2006 winner of the Once Upon a World award, presented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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MARGE PIERCY, Lilith Poetry Editor, is the author of seventeen novels including The New York Times Bestseller Gone To Soldiers; the National Bestseller The Longings of Women and the classic Woman on the Edge of Time; seventeen volumes of poetry, and a critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats. The recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in many of the major progressive political battles of our time.
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ILANA KURSHAN, Lilith's Book Review Editor, lives in Jerusalem, where she works as a literary agent and editor and studies Talmud at the Conservative Yeshiva. She is also a coordinator of Kehilat Kedem, a traditional egalitarian minyan in Jerusalem.
ilana@lilith.org

LINDSAY BARNETT, Lilith's Art Director, has a degree in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she has worked as a designer for a variety of clients ranging from Coach, to the JDC to the theater company Naked Angels.

JOAN ROTH, Lilith's official Photographer, is internationally acclaimed. Her photographs appear in publications throughout the world and are exhibited in major galleries everywhere. Author of Jewish Women: A World of Tradition and Change, she lives in New York City.

Yosh Schulman is this site's official webmaster.

Board Members

Contributing Editors