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Fall 2007
In this issue: For Sukkot, 7 eco-revolutionaries—farmer, lawyer, veggie pioneer, and more—tell what they’re doing, and why you can too. An unhappy Hasidic bride leaves herself behind at the huppah. Mother and daughter on wearing tfillin. The Israeli army in a feminist comic. And an egg matchmaker for infertile women.
First Frissons of Feminism
by Anne Lapidus Lerner and by Rahel Lerner
You’ve seen the Frédéric Brenner photograph. Now catch a mother-daughter pair telling how they got into it.
With This Wedding, I Leave Myself Behind
by Leah Lax
Walk with Lax down the aisle. She recounts how she became a bride: numb to the core, observing in minute detail the joy around her that she cannot reach.
Jewish Women’s Salons
Bring Back The Power of Conversation
Eco-Ushpizin: Women Take On The Environment
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
Meet an activist farmer, a veggie pioneer, a legal eagle and more. In the spirit of Sukkot, Lilith revisits the idea of Ushpizin—honored guests for the holiday. Find out what these inspirational women are doing, and what you can do, too.
- Truck Farmer: Esther Mandelheim Elliott, 28 as told to Susan Schnur
- Legal Eagle: Tzipi Iser Itzik, 38 as told to Melanie Weiss
- Betsy Teutsch—Modeling Thoughtful Consumption as told to Susan Schnur
- Veggie Pioneer: Dr. Roberta Kalechofsky, 76 as told to Susan Schnur
- Outdoor Educator: Nili Simhai, 35 as told to Susan Schnur
- Activist/ Executive: Barbara Lerman-Golomb, 48 as told to Susan Schnur
- And Don’t Miss Blogmeister: Leah Koenig, 25 as told to Susan Schnur
Divided Loyalty
by Shulamit Falik
Why a Brooklyn girl of the 60's jubilantly smuggles Herman Hesse into her parents' Orthodox home.
First Rosh Hashanah
poetry by Barbara White
The Fast
poetry by Sarah Antine
Leah koenig on “The Zookeeper’s Wife”
Ilana Stanger on "Petropolis"
Hannah Pressman on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew”
Eleanor J. Bader on ”Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story”
Susan Barocas on “Loyal To The Sky Notes Froman Activist”
“Writing in an Age of Silence”
Melanie Weiss on “The Colors of Jews," and "New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora"
Patricia Grossman on “French Seduction: An American’s Encounter With France, Her Father, and the Holocaust”
Trina Robbins on “Dangerous Woman”
Judy Gerstel on "Rifke: An Improbable Life”