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Why Feminism is a Model for Jewish Men Now

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What you are about to read are the musings of four men on remarkable journeys — journeys to give back power. It’s the old kind of male power they are handing back — the kind of power that came from being inside the walls of the maledominated synagogue, or, happily, outside the confining, distaff walls. They want to be free from Manhood in its old-fashioned form.

Why Feminism is a Model for Jewish Men Now

The articles in this special section:

Missing…

by Melanie Weiss

Gender After Feminism

by Rabbi Steve Greenberg

Bottoming for God

by Jay Michaelson

David The Father

by Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofky

Exile From Guyville: A Reflection

by Paul Zakrzewski

Fall 2009

What’s this boy crisis? Lilith spotlights men with radical thoughts on gender
and Judaism. Celebrating differently through the whole calendar cycle.

Celebrating

by Elizabeth S. Bennett

Why Feminism is a Model for Jewish Men Now

guest editor Sarah Blustain

More on Margaret Sanger

by Ruth Turim

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.

Winter 2017-2018

A toddler daughter becomes a Jew. Golda Meir and losing elections. That intergenerational Jewish lesbian couple. Barbra Streisand, a Catholic girl’s rabbi. Holocaust games at Jewish summer camp. Lilith’s 2017 Short Fiction Contest winners.

Fall 2017

Powerhouse sisters rage over women’s suffrage. Defying the rules for widows. Mother, daughter and mental illness. A non-Jewish wife finds her place at the table. One woman’s divine body.

Why Feminism is a Model for Jewish Men Now

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