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Fall 2008
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

Best Jewish Feminist Ideas
Celebrating Lilith's 100th issue, readers helped us brainstorm some necessary and life-changing concepts. Here are more than 100 of our favorites. We encourage you to leave some of your own.

Cancer Bitch
by S.L. Wisenberg
Wisenberg's known for her fiction. Here, reality, with frank journal entries on hair, her mother, her mastectomy camisole, and the secret behind nervous laughter.

An Unquiet Revolution at the Water Cooler
Eight women in their 20s and 30s dish about their jobs at Jewish nonprofits. Turns out they were totally primed to tell the truth about why they might not stay, and what they want in the rest of their lives. Plus seven steps to making things better, from Shifra Bronznick and Didi Goldenhar.

Lake Michigan Tashlikh
by Barbara Stock
Sometimes, you have to grapple with a starting over ritual until it does its job.

Switchbacks on the Road to Judaism

A Trek from Catholicism
by Marian Nash
When your mother's a devout Catholic and your father died a baptized Jew, crafting an identity that fits can be rough.

Lonely at the Table
by Darcy Fryer
Some converts come to Judaism missing only one thing: a Jewish family.

A Mormon-Jewish Burial. Why Not?
by Amy Wall
When her father dies, Wall is surprised by what she is willing to do, both to honor him and her own conflicted feelings.



Anne Roiphe on Widowhood
Her new, revealing memoir.

"A Modicum of Grace"
by Lois Roisman
Winner of this year's Charlotte Newberger Poetry Competition.

Thanksgiving
fiction by Michele Merens

From the Editor
Susan Schnur interviews Susan Weidman Schneider about Lilith's first 99 issues.

Voices
Was Shakespeare actually a Jewish woman? * Israeli films challenge gender assumptions * How studying together changes artists * Orthodox sex ed

Reviews
Elisa Albert on Cynthia Ozick. Sara Meirowitz on Rifka Galchen. Jordana Horn on Meg Wolitzer. Sarah Wildman on Geraldine Brooks. Ilana Kurshan on a new reading of the Talmud. And more!

Happening
Going. Doing. Indispensable resources, compiled by Naomi Danis.

Cover: Aliza Dzik

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The Jewish Feminist Research Group will present "Tefillat Nashim: Workshop and Discussion on Jewish Women's Prayers" from 5:30-7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 13 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Are you in a writers' group that happens to be composed only of Jewish women? If so, please email our senior editor, Susan Schnur, at SusanSchnur@aol.com, to let her know asap.

Check out this amazing panel: Toward a Greater Understanding: Transgender Identity and the Jewish Community Nov. 25th, 7-9pm, JCC in Manhattan. How are trans issues reflected in Jewish texts and traditions? How has Jewish identity shaped trans experience? How are trans issues similar to and different from GLB issues? How does the trans experience differ across generations? Discussion followed by Q & A and light refreshments. Sponsored by New Voices magazine..

"Praying in Her Own Voice" director Yael Katzir will be part of a panel of Israeli documentary film makers at the 23rd annual New York Israel Film Festival. Katzir's film documents the struggles of "the famed Women of the Wall."

The newest issue of Bridges: a Jewish Feminist Journal is available--you can even check them out online.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's online magazine, 614, is devoting their current issue to new Jewish ventures in film and TV. Check out Top Flicks for Jewish Chicks and an interview with Lilith blogger, The Jewish Channel maven and all-around renaissance woman Rebecca Honig Friedman.

Esta Salzman, star of the Yiddish stage, died on April 23 at the age of 94. One of the last big names of the Second Avenue era of Yiddish theater, Ms. Salzman had performed with the Barry Sisters, Molly Picon, and most of the headliners of the era. In our Winter 2006 issue, Lilith photographer Joan Roth beautifully captured Esta and other "Yiddish divas"--you can read, now, in memorial, here.

In honor of first-ever governmental hearing on workplace discrimination against transgender people (held in the House of Representative this past June), and Kathleen Peratis's great article in the Forward on the topic, we've made all of Lilith's articles on transgender Jews available for free download. Check them out on our Landmark Articles page.

Keshet is offering regional training institutes for Jewish educators on GLBT inclusion. Click here to apply, or contact Keshet for more information.

Lilith/WRJ salons have been featured in an article by the Washington Jewish Week. Check it out!

For the first time ever--available while supplies last--Lilith tote bags, with a Nicole Hollander cartoon on one side and Lilith's tagline on the other, so you can let everyone know that you, too, are independent, Jewish & frankly feminist. Buy one at the Lilith store, today. We love them so much that we'll send you one free when you make a tax-deductible contribution of $360 or more.

We've re-launched the Lilith Blog! Check out a new post every weekday from our excellent bloggers.

View sample panels from LILITH's traveling exhibit celebrating the magazine's almost 30-year history.

Now online: Selected articles from LILITH, as well as several in Spanish translation.