Not only were the children of women who could not access abortion in greater economic peril, but they were also more delayed in terms of their development, and their mothers reported feelings of being trapped and poor maternal bonding.
The Button Box isn’t a proselytizing tool; it’s an adventure story with Jewish and Muslim kids doing a few ordinary Jewish and Muslim things, while they travel through time learning how to own and defend their cultural identities.
“When I eat a knish, when I drink a chocolate egg cream, when I butter a board of matzoh, I feel connected to my heritage and generations of my family.”
“Silence has underscored my life, with my grandmother hiding her Russian Jewish past from her daughters and, in turn, my mother hiding it from me until I was eighteen years old.”
“I think most Jewish kids know the details of the Holocaust when they’re young.”
Roe v. Wade spelled the end of the need to put your life on hold if you became pregnant by accident.
Many of us have lost sleep over the direction our country has taken. I offer my story here with the understanding that we must prepare to take care of each other.
With reproductive rights under threat, a film reminds to celebrate and respect those who choose not to parent.
It was challenging to adjust to my second-time-around life in the Ukrainian capital. But eventually, the city has grown, or regrown, on me. And now I’m staying put.
“The drum industry has notoriously been a self-proclaimed boys club,” says Jewish Riotgrrrl Mindy Abovitz Monk — this is exactly why she decided to create Tom Tom. Lilith talked to her about the magazine’s genesis, fighting for the male dollar, and dressing up as an alien for her Bat Mitzvah.
Author Maggie Anton—who wrote the acclaimed trilogy Rashi’s Daughters—talks about how her new novel, “The Choice,” both exposes and dismantles gender inequities.
