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Summer 2018
First-timers: Jewish women running for office. Pretending she can protect her small daughter from patriarchy. When food endangered Jews. Raising liberal kids in Israel. Returning to Tangier, a Moroccan Jew finds Muslim feminists. Childbirth & privilege: Who deserves a doula? Unexpected anti-Semitism in an upstate NY town.
“Flawlessness by Ines” — The Hidden Bruises
Yaëlle Azagury
Seven years after the Arab Spring, a Moroccan Jewish feminist returns to Tangier and connects with her Muslim ex-schoolmates.
Running for Office
Susan Weidman Schneider and Joan Roth
Ballots for U.S. Congress this season list an unprecedented number of Jewish women. Who are they? Why, win or lose, did they enter the fray? And how would they bring the change they want to see? Lilith’s editor in chief and photographer took to the campaign trail to find out.
What Was Cut
fiction by Beth Kanell
A Jew in America Becomes a Jew in Israel
by Ilana Blumberg
Suddenly the State is no longer the Other—it’s her, and her family. How to confront this identity shift and its responsibilities?
The Midwife Divide
by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Jewish women, often early adopters of medical advances, are rethinking their childbirth options. But who deserves a doula most?
When Food Betrayed the Jews
Susan Barocas
Tracing modern food cultures back to the Spanish Inquisition and before, you find that what you eat carries more meaning than you’d known. Plus…recipes for Sephardic leeks and almond pastries.
- Prasa (Sephardic Leeks with Tomato) Susan Barocas
- Sephardic Almond Macaroons Susan Barocas
I Pretended I Could Shelter My Daughter from the Patriarchy
Sara Fredman
It began with a lie. She told her daughter that the Jewish boys’ choir on the recording was really girls. The lesson that followed was illuminating.
Five Recent Encounters; Or, “One of Those People”
Elisa Albert
Novelist Albert lives in Upstate New York. Here’s a sampling of the unanticipated anti-Semitism she’s been hearing from people in her circle.
Vote
poem by Rebecca Keren
The Long Tail of the Bitch
Allison Yarrow
Allison Yarrow on her new book, 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
Some Never Noticed They Were Jewish
Joyce Antler
Joyce Antler on her new book Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement
She’s a Surrogate for Hidden Women’s Stories
The Sexist Belief That Won’t Die
“Incels” lament being ‘involuntarily celibate’… Some want to “not only create harems and enslave women, but also ‘gas the Jews’.”
Should Feminists Walk Away from Tarantino?
“Your smartphone is not your brain.”
No, My Jewish NYC Childhood Was Not Like a Movie
“I wouldn’t trade my special needs for anything”
Birthright Israel and #MeToo
“The problem [with Philip Roth] is literary: these caricatures reveal a lack of not only empathy, but curiosity….That’s why Brenda and the many other Jewish New Jersey women in his books, ostensibly so close to home, struck me as so unfamiliar. I didn’t know these women at all, because neither did he.”
It’s the era of #MeToo, when reporting by female journalists like Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Emily Steel, Irin Carmon, and Amy Brittain has helped bring down powerful men who ruled media for decades. But women remain underrepresented both in bylines and in news coverage itself.
The Speaker Lineup for This Major Conference Is All Women
Discovering Lost Jewish Songs from World War II
Monica Lewinsky Reflects On #MeToo
The language I use to talk about sexual violence should place the spotlight on the fact that another person perpetrated a crime against me, and we do not call the victim of a robbery a “survivor.”