Diana M. Allen
In Honor of National Poetry Month, Lilith will be sharing original work by Jewish feminist poets throughout the first week in April. We begin in the Garden of Eden…
Poetry: Eden Is an Archetype
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Puppy Love
Yona Zeldis McDonough
It took more than a year of life with a dog for me to understand that I wasn’t simply looking at a creature who preferred me to all others on earth. I was in fact looking in a mirror.
My Tattoos, Queerness, Ex-Orthodoxy… Oh My!
Je'Jae Cleo Daniels
With my tattoos, I am an artsy fartsy Jewess who has forged my own authentic derech (path).
I Am Russian… In Name Only
Liba Vaynberg
I am not Russian, but I speak Russian. It’s a kind of nonconsensual tattoo Stalin left behind on my parents—better tattooed than dead.
Fiction: “Worms”
Simona Zaretsky
Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.
The Challah Boys
Renee Skudra
Some unlikely visitors at my new home connected me to my Jewish roots.
The Dybbukast: “The New World”
Lilith Staff
Gender and Yiddish fiction on the latest episode of “The Dybbukast.”
Muslims & Jews— Building Our Emotional Safety Net
Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos
When their communities were hurting in the wake of Colleyville, Aziza and Andrea returned to their resilient relationships.
Kait Ziegler of the Poor People’s Campaign
Eleanor J. Bader
And it is truly intersectional. As a feminist, as a woman, and as a queer person of color, the campaign offers me and others like me an analysis that pushes against the distorted narratives we’ve been fed about the inevitability of poverty.
Talking Migration and Beauty with Jewelry Designer Nora Kogan
Kitty Zeldis
“I was so used to describing myself as a Russian. I equated being Russian with being Soviet. I discounted both my Jewish and Ukrainian identities. Why? Because I was brainwashed when I was a child. But in fact, I am not Russian. I am Jewish, Ukrainian and Australian.”
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