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Rethinking Our Relationships
Empathy, Sexuality, Community
What has been so surprising to Lilith’s editors as we’ve looked back at the relationships Jewish women have explored in articles, poems, short stories and art, is the powerful role that ordinary objects play in triggering women’s associations with they care about. The chair she gets at the seder is die status clue for an unmarried niece. Sisters go through their late mother’s top drawer, and a pile of memories spills out along with the pearls. Who inherits the photos, the furs, the frying pan? The humble material of daily life carries emotional weight for women.