The Lilith Blog

Mel Weiss is Lilith’s Associate Editor and Blog Moderator, as well as a freelance writer.

Rebecca Honig Friedman is Senior Writer of Jewess (www.jewess.canonist.com), a blog about Jewish women’s issues. She also works in documentary film and television production and lives with her husband on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Sophie Glass is entering her junior year at Colorado College and is majoring in Political Science with a minor in African Studies. She is involved with genocide and post-genocide issues as well as various forms of environmental activism. She grew up in New York and while she loves living out West, she needs to watch a Woody Allen movie every month to reconnect with her neurotic, Jewish and New Yorker roots.

Leah Koenig is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jew and the Carrot: Hazon’s blog on Jews, food, and contemporary life. She is also a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, NY whose articles focus on food and culture, sustainability, and religion.Leah is a proud member of the Park Slope Food Co-Op and a Brooklyn CSA, a frequent green market shopper, and an enthusiastic cook. Leah also works for Zeek: A Jewish Journal on Thought and Culture. At Lilith, she blogs about about the intersection of food, women, and Jewish life.

Liana Finck is an art student at Cooper Union college. She also writes poems and stories, and just finished her first comic book. She is from the tristate area.

Chavatzelet Herzliya edits books and studies Talmud in Jerusalem, where she lives. You can also find her work at ktiva.blogspot.com.

Eryn Loeb is a writer living in New York City. She writes the monthly “Girl, Interrupting” column for Bookslut.com, and has written for other publications including Salon, Bitch Magazine, and Nextbook.org

Claire Isaacs lives and writes in suburban New Jersey.

I. Kramer has written several articles for Lilith. She is currently living on the Thai-Burma border, working with ethnic minority women from Burma and the human rights abuses they’ve faced from the Burmese government.

Modesty Blasé is an Orthodox Jewish housewife and mother in London. She has a Pesach kitchen and a Polish cleaner. Her skirts are long and she often sports a trendy baseball cap with a fake ponytail. But lately, Modesty has been having some doubts. This is her commentary. You can also read her at The Jerusalem Post’s blog.

Sarah Aronson writes novels for middle grade and young adult readers. She has worked as a physical therapist, a religious school educator, and most recently, as a sales representative for Jewish Lights Publishing. Her first published novel, Head Case, is available everywhere! Find out more at www.saraharonson.com.

Anna Schnur-Fishman is a senior at Brown University who has written and worked for Lilith. She loves linguistics, Yiddish, and creative nonfiction.

Maya Bernstein is Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, where she blogs on Jewish Social Entrepreneurship. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Palo Alto, CA, where she’s made a secret deal with the devil in exchange for time to support her piano, swimming, yoga, and poetry habits.

Nancy Goodman lives in Pocatello, Idaho and is a licensed counselor with an emphasis on life and career coaching. Nancy’s weekly wellness/spirituality column “Fumbling Toward Serenity,” published in the Idaho State Journal, is available to read here.

Ri J. Turner graduated from Cornell University in January 2009, and since then, has been living in Brooklyn and working for Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality. They frequently write for the Jewish Mosaic Torah Queeries Project website. They have also been studying with the Kohenet Jewish Priestess Program for the last year and a half. If you’d like to know more about them and their writing, you can check their website here. (A note about pronouns: Ri prefers to be referred to by the gender neutral pronouns “they/them/their.”)

Chanel Dubofsky is a writer living in New York City. Her fiction has been published in Glossolalia, DOGZPLOT, Staccato, Zeek and Quick Fiction. She has worked for Hillel at Oberlin College and Columbia University. You can read about her adventures in her blog, Diverge.

If you’re interested in writing for the Lilith blog, send an email to Mel Weiss, blog moderator.