Lines of Communication

Familiar Cruelties: A Nightmare Journey Through South Africa

by Mira Hamermesh

Researching her film "Maids and Madams," a study of black women and their white employers in South Africa, a Holocaust survivor has a personal encounter with apartheid, and tells here how its racism is inextricably linked with an equally corrosive but less frequently documented sexism. The cruelties of both are jarringly familiar to Hamermesh, resonating with her childhood memories of Nazi persecution.

Something Critical For My Mother

poetry by Barbara Berman

Fagel Speaks

poetry by Phyllis Stern

Free Ida Nudel!

Lilith launches a Women's Appeal to Raissa Gorbachev for the release of longtime refusenik and human rights activist Ida Nudel, isolated in the town of Bendery, Moldavia after four brutal years of Siberian exile.

Comedy and Consciousness

by Celia Weisman

Can thinking women find anything to identify with in the persona of the abrasive late-night comic with the misogynist barbs?

Funny and Feminist Too

by Judy Rosenfeld

Two Jewish comediennes use humor to fight stereotypes—and still get laughs.

She Fought Back – An Interview with Vilna Partisan Vitke Kempner

by Aviva Cantor

Lifting The Yoke

by Gila Berkowitz

Thousands of women came to Jerusalem in December to express their views on how the Jewish legal system oppresses them, and to call for action. But were the male rabbis, who have the power to change things, really listening?