Since earliest childhood, Suzanne Pred Bass has known about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a workplace tragedy that took the lives of 146 workers, 123 women and 23 men, on… Read more »
“That’s why, once every seven years in fact, this year, the one we started yesterday — the Torah demands that both we and the land take a Sabbatical. In Hebrew,… Read more »
Nora Ephron called Zabar’s, “The most rambunctious and chaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other in the vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” Lori Zabar had a keen appreciation for both the old and the new and as such, she was the perfect chronicler for this story.
Lilith is thrilled to share with you the forthcoming release of Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (October 6, 2022; Brandeis University Press), edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough.
As an understudy, Benko covered five female roles in the first national tour of Spring Awakening and then eight roles (including all four daughters) in the recent Broadway production of Fiddler On The Roof.
In the month of Av, storms are bound to pass through. Sit with the sadness, don’t push it away. This too we can learn from.
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
“All over the country women were running for state, local, and national office and I just decided to go for it.”
Novelist and winner of the National Jewish Book Award Lauren Belfer chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the many ways looking at the past can shape and inform our view of the present.
The Jewish feminist mysticism of Russian Doll…
