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Appalachian HomecomingG. Samantha Rosenthal
How a new generation of Jews is making home—and making trouble—in the Mountain South.
Fall 2025
Sibling stories.
Sibling stories. Skiing in the Catskills. Young and Jewish in Appalachia.
In This Issue
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Sibling Stories The Bible is rife with complex sibling dramas. Sisters vie to marry the same man. Brothers cheat one another; or they trick and torture the youngest, who never looks for revenge. Lilith recently asked our readers to share their own sibling stories.Lilith Feature
Skiing Through Sour CreamEileen Pollack
How the Borscht Belt paved the way for Jewish athletes.More Articles
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The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice
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Karofsky’s account of her mom’s last four-and-a-half years is harrowing and chronicles the negligence and indifference she experienced at six different assisted living facilities
Glass Castles and Throwing Stones
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Antonetta lays bare how the atrocities committed by the Nazis under the grotesque misnomer of “euthanasia,” had the complicity and cooperation of the medical and psychiatric establishment.
Dear Yin
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They told me to quiet down. But I wanted a baby more than anything—how could I possibly stop?
Poetry: Golem
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I want to unsee it—you at “war” in olive coveralls & combat boots. Red Star of David pinned to your beret at the dinner table, where you chew me up... Read more »
“Uh-Oh, Mom’s Personality Is Starting.”
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Her Jewish motherness unfolds into something more complex, more human.
Fiction: A Place of Truth
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A deliciously defiant excerpt from Bonnie Friedman's forthcoming novel, "Don't Stop."
What Does Justice Look Like In a Notorious #MeToo Case?
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What justice is possible in a system that routinely fails to protect the vulnerable?
Meanwhile, in Charleston
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“This small, stubborn Appalachian synagogue is defying the odds—and so is its new rabbi."
Our Sibling Trips
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Each trip reminds me that family is not something you can take for granted. It is something you build, again and again, with time and attention.
