Our Bloggers

Amy Kronish writes and lectures widely on Israeli cinema. She served for 15 years as the Curator of Jewish and Israel Film at the Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israeli Film Archive, and more recently directed coexistence programs at the Jerusalem International YMCA. She is the author of two books on Israeli Film– World Cinema: Israel (1996) and Israeli Film-A Reference Guide (2003). Born and bred in the United States, she has an MA in Communications from NYU and has lived in Jerusalem since 1979. She blogs at www.israelfilm.blogspot.com.

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

Annie Lewis is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where she is concentrating in Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies. She currently works as an intern at United Synagogue of Hoboken and as an artist-educator for Storahtelling.

Bonnie Beth Chernin lives in Queens with her husband, daughter, and cat. She works as a staff writer for a Jewish non-profit and writes essays and fiction when she can.

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.

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

Claire Isaacs lives and writes in suburban New Jersey.

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 Tablet Magazine

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.

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 of Thought and Culture. At Lilith, she blogs 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 tri-state area.

Liz Lawler writes, practices and teaches yoga, tends to a man, a son, and a dog (in no particular order and with very little grace). She lives in Brooklyn with the lot of them. Now you’ll excuse her, while she breaks up a dog/toddler fight.

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 three children 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.

Mel Weiss is a contributing editor at Lilith and a freelance writer. She currently lives in Tel Aviv.

Merissa Nathan Gerson is the author of AskYourYenta.com, an advice column with an occasional Jewish bent. She is a contributing writer to the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles and is presently a yeshiva student in Jerusalem. Merissa holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, CO where she focused on post-Holocaust trauma in the body.

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.

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.

Rebecca Honig Friedman is Senior Writer of Jewess, 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.

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.”)

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.

Sonia Isard is the assistant editor of Lilith, as well as contributor to, and moderator of, the Lilith blog.

Sophie Glass is a recent graduate of Colorado College, with a major 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.

Tara Bognar is a new lawyer in Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of McGill University, Drisha Institute, Yeshivat Hadar, and the Conservative Yeshiva, she is interested in Jewish and secular law, especially in relation to women’s lives and experiences, LGBT issues, and nontraditional families. Read more at www.TaraBognar.com.

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