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Gratitude is a thread intricately woven throughout Jewish tradition and essential to cultivate, especially in times as constricting and narrow as these. As a rabbi, I sit with the question every day: how can I embody gratitude in all that I do in the world?
This question inspired my recent trip to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress alongside a cohort of rabbis with Ame...
If I showed you the agenda items for our women*’s learning community staff meetings since January, you would laugh. Or cry. Iran. Romi Gonen. Purim. Minneapolis. Iran. Arbel Yehud. Michigan. War. London. War. Pesach. The Omer. Yom Hashoah. Iran. We meet weekly, and we always add to the agenda: “What is our community holding right now?” It’s been a lot. Overwhelming even. And...
Thirty years ago, I was working at an overnight Jewish summer camp when I met a camper who changed my life. He was repeatedly being separated from his peers for one reason or another.
A first-time camper, he had learning and attention challenges and behaviors his counselors struggled to navigate. While everyone else geared up for an amazing summer—singing, swimmin...
Lilith has been committed to publishing poetry in every issue since 1976. In honor of National Poetry Month, we’re sharing a few extra poems exclusively at Lilith Online, with comments from Lilith’s Poetry Editor Alicia Ostriker.
Supernova
The pages are stuck at the bottom of the book
where a little wanton glue...
Poetry Editor Alicia Ostriker comments: Adam and Eve as Everyman and Everywoman—that’s a familiar meme. But to use the First Couple to speculate on penis envy pivoted to menstruation envy—that’s outrageous. Outrageous, wicked, very original and very funny. Robin Rosen Chang’s imagery of redness in flower and fruit is intense and her condescensi...