My great-grandfather was detained at Angel Island. Immigrants carved tens of thousands of poems into every square inch of the barrack walls, describing their anguish of captivity and longing for home.
Highlighting the books, films, tv shows, and voices that have inspired us, entertained us, and made us think.
Wearing a star, for me, is not about telling the world but about telling myself, who I am.
What am I missing when I stay still or don’t check my phone? What will come into the silence?
Perfect for Jewish women ages 35-44 named after a matriarch.
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Tamar Sagiv, an Israeli-born New York-based cellist and composer, recently released her debut album “Shades of Mourning.” The album includes nine original compositions, each uniquely touching on themes of grief. Inspired by the death of her grandmother, the album is both about personal and universal emotion.
Find listings for this album and other new Jewish feminist music, art, theater productions and more in the Happening section of Lilith`s current issue!
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“Among the men who will oppose the presence of women on the bimah will be many who fear that a menstruating woman will contaminate them and the sacred objects on the bimah, especially the Torah. Others… will be awed and humiliated by the woman whose competence in religious matters clearly exceeds their own.”
Just 50 years ago, the Jewish Theological Seminary wouldn’t let women be Conservative rabbis. They offered justifications like the one above from JTS’s Chairman of the Department of Pastoral Psychiatry, Mortimer Ostow.
In Lilith’s Spring/Summer 1977, one of Lilith’s founding mothers, Amy Stone, reports on the Seminary’s refusal to ordain women as rabbis—and the tireless efforts of women like Sandy Levine and Lynn Gottlieb to show that a woman’s place is on the bimah.
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📸 by Bill Ashe and Martin Kharrazi
(FYI: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb became the first woman ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement in 1981. Sandy Levine, now Rabbi Kinneret Shiryon, was ordained by the Reform movement in 1981 and became the first woman rabbi in Israel.)
What is the next unjust barrier we need to break?
What Jewish practices, ancient and emerging, can help us meet this moment?
Lilith is excited to partner on the @bigjewishgathering—a bold new experiment in Jewish spiritual and cultural life. Join us for a two-day spiritual laboratory on January 24–25 in Brooklyn where emerging and established Jewish leaders will co-create a Judaism that meets this moment — one that is rooted, relevant, and alive.
Read @gxslosberg`s profile of @lovingfife at 🔗 in bio from Lilith`s Summer 2021 issue— and then learn from her next weekend!
We are excited to welcome the fifth cohort of The New 40, Lilith`s fellowship for emerging Jewish feminist writers over 40 (this year, over 45)!
Make it loud in the comments for these 11* new participants!
And stay tuned for new writing from New 40 alums at publishing soon at Lilith Online...
*Two participants have chosen to keep their identity private at this time
