Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
A cross-section of activists and thinkers weigh in on the present and its future— what perils we face, and what we might build from this epidemiological, social and political crisis.
Sarah Seltzer
The old way of buying clothes holds nostalgic appeal, despite its history of exploitation.
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
A germinal essay from Kaye/Kantrowitz, the late pioneering intersectional lesbian writer who told it straight.
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
Esther Amini
He casually asked if my sixth-grade classmates were wearing bras.
Zines—highly personal and handmade— are a kind of feminist samizdat, self-published and with themes that can elude mainstream media. Here, results from Lilith’s quaranzine video season!
A 1930s short story by Chana Blankshteyn translated from Yiddish by Anita Norich.
Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman
Life lessons from the mythological Lilith. Betty Friedan on her feminine mystique & being Jewish. Those thorny Jewish women's organizations.
We are Dying Because of the Fears of White People
Instead of Punishment
Elissa Slotkin on Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault
Our Education is Never Over
Beyond Instagram Activism
Abuse Lives On in the Jewish Canon
Feminism and Its Backlash: The Real Events of “Mrs. America”
Say Goodnight, Especially in Quarantine
Mizrahi Music
Working from Home
Immigration Activism Met Spirituality at Our Quarantine Seder
Making Flatbread to Nourish Your Body and Spirit
The U.S. Labor System
First Woman Chancellor At JTS!