Jewish Hair Now.

Twenty-five years after Lilith’s original, classic, sold-out hair issue, new writers untangle the knots that connect us to our mothers, our bodies, our backgrounds and our politics. 

• I'm Eleven and I've Lost My Hair by Orli Wildman Halpern as told to Sarah Wildman
• Hair as a Jewish Art Form: A Parasha Haircut Project May Ye
• Waxing Nostalgic Raina Lipsitz
• My Mother's Unshaved Legs Talia Liben Yarmush
• At the Beauty Parlor Marianne Rogoff
• Combing My Mother's Hair Ruth Knafo Setton
• The Books that Taught Me to Love My Body Hair Lea Grover
• Hair-Pulling Jamie Zabinsky
• The Weight of Shiva Sharrona Pearl
• Head Covering: The Evolving Choices Talya Jankovits
• The Social Context of Hair: Hairstyles, Race and Status Sarah Seltzer

Raising Feminist Boys

Sarah Seltzer

How we can all help 

• A Sample Gender Email Julie Sissman
• Big-Mouth Bar Mitzvah Rabbi Tamara Cohen

Tipping. A Feminist Issue.

Arielle Silver-Willner talks to Sarah Jaffe

Emotional Labor, Tipping, and Feminists’ Role in Promoting a Fairer Workplace Culture 

• When Your Family Is Someone's Boss Rabbi Mary L. Zamore

Making Yiddish Hip, Heymish & Hot

Sandee Brawarsky

Channeling her own past, the remarkable diva Eleanor Reissa is singing, directing, writing and performing Yiddish for 21st-century audiences. 

Fiction: Driving Lesson

Kate Schmier

And yet, as she looked around at the paintings in their gilded frames, the polished silver candlesticks, the maid scurrying into the room with a china bowl filled with sugar cubes, she thought she might go through with it anyway. She was a milliner, after all. She had the taste for beautiful things. The possibilities tantalized her.

Fiction: Anniversary

M.K. Narváez

The longer they sat without stirring, the more concrete and real the other became. As the evening progressed it became a conversation in which they spoke in their own impenetrable, unutterable language, which only they could perceive.

Fiction: Paved With Gold

Beth Kanter

So they leave, two more huddled masses sailing from old world to new. The newlyweds carry their tightly bundled life on board: Candlesticks, prayer shawl, brown crusted bread,
hand-stitched lace, a family ring tightly sewn into the band of her thick wool skirt.

Poetry: Burnt Offering

Alisha Kaplan

Poetry by Alisha Kaplan