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Spring 2019
“Unfaithful,” the theme of 3 prize-winning short stories • Israel’s little-known School for Peace and the woman who created it • The new questions those male policy-makers didn’t know to ask • Matilda Robbins,1920s labor activist single mom, has messages for us • Jewish female legislators storm New York’s statehouse and expand abortion access • A writer mourns her father at another man’s funeral • Alice Shalvi, matron saint of Israeli feminism
Subscriber Exclusive The New Questions
Lilith staff
Subscriber Exclusive The Matron Saint of Israeli Feminism
Ilana Kurshan
“In Vain, My Attempts to Be Reasonable”
Rokhl Kafrissen
The struggles of socialist single mother Matilda Robbins in the 1920s are surprisingly relevant right now.
On the Coattails of Other People’s Grief
Susan Kennedy
Mourning my father by attending another man's funeral
Subscriber Exclusive Women Shake Things Up in a Major Statehouse
Joan Roth and Shira Gorelick, with reporting by Susan Weidman Schneider and Sarah Seltzer
Fiction: That Dad with White Socks
Ruth Efroni, translated by Ilana Kurshan
Third Prize in Lilith's 2019 Fiction Contest
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Subscriber Exclusive Poetry: Brisket Wars
Ellen Sazzman
Subscriber Exclusive It Belongs to My Brothers
Adina Singer
But what is respected in my community as the more intellectually rigorous and important body of text, the Talmud, makes me feel like a stranger in my own faith.
Raised on Intersectionality, What’s a Teen to Do?
The Persian Singer
Honoring Monica Lewinsky
Halakhah and the Challenge of #MeToo: The World Split Open
Taking on the Boys’ Club
Baking Challah to Bring the Torah
This Jewish School Tradition Needs to Change
Are You a Woman Who Survived Concentration Camp? Or Her Daughter or Granddaughter?
What Is Sex Trafficking? •
Holocaust Childhoods, Rendered in Cartoons •
Women’s Disability Leadership & Advocacy •
The Anti-Abortion World •
Period. End of Sentence. •
Frida Kahlo •
Nancy Spero’s “Paper Mirror” Exhibition •
The Re-Annotated Alice •
“The Guiding Hand” •
Sara Berman’s Closet
When Women Changed the World by Voting