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Fall 2010
In this issue: Patricia Averbach reflects on her time as a virtual Jew and explains how an unusual online world inspires real-life Jewish engagement. David Belasco gives a behind-the scenes look at “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism” at The Jewish Museum. A postmodern mother’s struggle over circumcising her son. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg with Lilith in her chambers.
A Knock at the Door in the Darkness of Night
by Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft
Remembering that dreaded knock at her door in June 1967, an Israeli-American political scientist talks poignantly about her losses, about Israel’s chronic grief and what war costs women.
Age
poetry by Gigi Marks
An Indispensable Member of the Supremes
by Joan Roth
Lilith’s staff photographer visits Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Washington.
Virtually Jewish
by Patricia Averbach
A quirky online world inspires real-life Jewish engagement. Avatars (Javatars!) get all dressed up for shul, shabbos, and even getting virtually wasted at the Mitzvah Bar.
Subscriber Exclusive Size Matters
by Daniel Belasco
The curator of a dramatic new exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum tells why he chose the paintings he did, and who might be included in our canon of Jewish feminist artists.
Vilna Vegetarianism, 1938
by Frances Brent and Judith Hausman
Fania Lewando’s Yiddish cookbook and the restaurant that nourished an era’s Yiddish writers.
Deep in the Valley
fiction by Cherise Wolas
It is Wednesday night and she drives to a motel deep in the valley. She has never been deep in the valley. The deep valley is far away. She loves the way deep in the valley sounds and she loves the thoughts she thinks about it.
To Bris or Not to Bris?
by Randi Glatzer
Stealing glances at little boys’ penises, a postmodern mother frets her way through the complexity of circumcision.
Selling Children for Sex
by Elizabeth Mandel
Ugly and necessary truths from a courageous new documentary film.
Shira Engel on "The Sabbath World: Glipses of a Different Order of Time"
Jordana Horn on "Something Red"
Rahel Lerner on "And the Rat Laughed"
Ilana Kurshan on "Wherever You Go"
Naomi Danis on "Hush," "Life, After," "My Life with the Lincolns," "Elvina's Mirror," and "Naomi's Song"
Jennie Rosenfeld on "Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex and Intimacy"
Hadar Schwartz on "The Cookbook Collector"
Sara N.S. Meirowitz on "Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives" and "Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities"
Diane Cole on "If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard"