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Spring 2003
In this issue: Sex in an Orthodox marriage—the secret is women are the engine! A traveling exhibition spotlights Lilith’s first 25 years. Ceremonies for separating when a relationship comes apart: A Havdalah ritual and a woman-written gett for a male-dominated moment. Why summer camp transforms girls. Fresh new fiction from Israel. “To the Egg”—a new reading for your seder. Cover art by Bella Baran.
Frontier Bris
by Shala Erlich
A twentysomething doc with a gleam in her eye takes herself into the O.R. Here's what she thought when science met culture on the circumcision table.
Divorce
In light of new books on Jews and divorce, Lilith's editors decided it was time to republish two landmark articles about women taking control of the process.
- Separating by Ruth Berger Goldston
- The New, Improved Jewish Divorce by Vicki Hollander
- Emerging on the Other Side of a Marriage by Karen Propp
Celebrating Lilith Magazine
A new exhibition honors the magazine's 27 years of publishing (chai-and-a-half!). Here, a sampling of the treasures from the show, soon to come to a city near you!
Rhythms of the Blood
by C. Devora Hammer
"These things that I tell you are secret," says a young woman who has learned, slowly, to appreciate being the engine of her sex life.
Roadkill
fiction by Miriam Sivan
Ode to the Passover Egg
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
A brand new reading for Passover, to help us remember what’s inside us: generations within generations.
Bush’s War—The One on Women
Food and Loathing
Combatting Violence Against Teen Girls
Women Bonding On and Off Campus
Milestones
Making a Seder with Soul
Strong Campers, Strong Women
Sarah Blustain on “Burnt Bread and Chutney: A Memoir of an Indian Jewisti Girl”
Shana Penn on “Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe”
Rebecca Schwartz on “Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site ”
Patty Grossmann on ”A Mouthful of Air”
Edna Aizenberg on “Like a Bride and like a Mother”
Rebecca Schwartz on “Reading the Women of the Bible”
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow on “The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People”
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow on “Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century”
Jane Gottesman on “Foiled: Hilter's Jewish Olympian”