7 AM at the Western Wall

poetry by Yiskah Rosenfeld

Credit for Demystifying DNA Denies One Woman’s Role

by Esther Braun Sparberg

Scientist Esther Braun Sparberg on sexism in science, 50 years after Rosalind Franklin helped discover DNA.

The Time of their Lives

by Joan Roth

Roth’s peripatetic camera invited us to share the fun of the seventy-, eighty-, and ninety-something women gathering in Miami for the last days of the Lido spa.

Triangle Factory

poetry by Arielle Greenberg

My Grandmother’s Song

poetry by Marge Piercy

Arubah

by Shai Cherry

Brides, beware! Don’t frame that wedding contract! Your ketubah spells out the terms for ending a marriage, not celebrating it. Plus...Karen Propp navigates through the tsunami of new books about the institution of marriage.

• The Path to Loving Relationships by Karen Propp

Who Was Wise

fiction by Diana Cohen Conway

Winner of Lilith's fiction contest.

Journey Out of Europe

poetry by Michelle Cameron

Strange Family

poetry by Laura Bernstein

Moving on

by Lori Lefkovitz

When we recite the Yizkor memorial service, we’re really paying attention to our own tiny, ephemeral moment in history.

Healing Through the Dark Emotions

by Miriam Greenspan

Self-help instructions to stifle rage, terror and sadness deny us the chance to survive these feelings robustly. A psychotherapist hints at what we can garner from the gloom.

Guiding Spirits

by Malka Drucker

Self-styled Jewish Witch Starhawk, Rabbi Laura Geller, Jewish Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein and the singer/songwriter/Pied Piper Debbie Friedman.

• The JewBu Bubbe
• Singing People through the Narrows, Like Miriam
• How to be a Jewish Witch
• Cracking the Stained - Glass Ceiling