From the Editor

by Susan Weidman Schneider

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War, or any crisis, causes us to question ourselves and how we spend our lives. By the time you read this, we may, blessedly, have moved back into lives less dominated by the television news. But even as we pray for peace, and yearn for it, we’re faced with the challenge of locating the meaning — beyond the mundane — in our everyday lives. In this issue of LILITH we have several extraordinary models for how to do so.

Spring 1991

I.B.Singer’s soon-to-be-famous sister. Why 12-step recovery programs fail women. A ritual for your hysterectomy. Turning 40, with a twist. Israeli filmmaker Gila Almagor emerges from her mother’s Holocaust past.

My Mayflower Moms: Sarah, Rebecca, Bella

by Julia Wood Kramer

12 Stepping It: Women’s Roads to Recovery

The New World

by Esther Singer Kreitman translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

From the Editor

by Susan Weidman Schneider

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