Susan Weidman Schneider
“Which one of us is it going to be?” Susan Schnur asked the eight women who were sitting around the Lilith editorial table a few years ago. What she meant, of course, was which of us would be diagnosed with breast cancer, the scourge of Jewish women. We eight were the statistical core; one of us might prove the averages right. Schnur, a rabbi, clinical psychologist, and at that time Lilith senior editor, was simply speaking aloud the lurking anxiety so many of us live with.
Elizabeth S. Bennett
New job, new city, new baby, new role as a rabbi’s wife. But the diagnosis outdid the rest.
Ali Walensky
She chose "kink" sex, for pain she herself could control.
Alicia Ostriker
Looking back at the surgery decades later, the noted poet confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.