Now. Next.

A cross-section of activists and thinkers weigh in on the present and its future— what perils we face, and what we might build from this epidemiological, social and political crisis.

• The Ethos of Rural Life Is Everyone’s Ethos Now Rabbi Rachel Isaacs
• Link Food Supplies to Public Health Marion Nestle
• I Want Us to View Art Through a New Lens Jillian Steinhauer
• White Allies Need to Step Up. Now. Yavilah McCoy
• We’re Going to Witness a Surge in the Current Health Inequality Marion Danis
• Abortion for Anyone Who Needs It Steph Black
• Global Tzedakah: Save for a Rainy Day? This Is a Downpour! Ruth Messinger
• Reproductive Justice Instead of "Jewish Continuity.” Michal Raucher
• Camp, Even When It’s Not Summer Elana Rebitzer
• Comedy? You Bet! Laura Beatrix Newmark
• Labor Activism Has New Momentum Amelia Dornbush
• Relative Privilege in a World of Suffering Yael Schonbrun
• A Mirage of Hope for Israelis and Palestinians Naomi Zeveloff

Shopping: A Eulogy

Sarah Seltzer

The old way of buying clothes holds nostalgic appeal, despite its history of exploitation.

• Politics Shapes Party Dresses Yona Zeldis McDonough
• “I Never Saw My Mother in a Clothing Store” Bess Kalb

Acting Like a Jewish Woman

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

A germinal essay from Kaye/Kantrowitz, the late pioneering intersectional lesbian writer who told it straight.

Vivian Gornick: “Writing is Feminism”

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Why this recurring presence in American letters and feminist reporting is in the spotlight again.

• The “Us” and “Them” of My Life. Vivian Gornick, from The Romance of American Communism

In My Persian Immigrant Family…How My Brother Mothered Me

Esther Amini

He casually asked if my sixth-grade classmates were wearing bras.

Quaranzines

Zines—highly personal and handmade— are a kind of feminist samizdat, self-published and with themes that can elude mainstream media. Here, results from Lilith’s quaranzine video season!

Poem: “Playing Scrabble With God”

Julie Grass

A poem by Julie Grass
Comment by Alicia Ostriker

Fiction: “Do Not Punish Us”

A 1930s short story by Chana Blankshteyn translated from Yiddish by Anita Norich.