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The Hebrew month of Adar is here! Discover your Jewish horoscope for the month ahead at Lilith Online:

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TONIGHT: Our Stories, Our Choices: Jewish Experiences of Abortion hosted by the Astoria Center Of Israel

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A Reading List for Black History Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they r...

We're in good company here!

Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for including Lilith in this month's reading list!

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Get ready to be uplifted by the original composers of these powerful melodies and inspiring lyrics, including Bella Bogart, an alum of Lilith's New 40 program.

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Celebrate 50 years of Jewish feminist music at the live-on-Zoom Jewish Feminist Music Awards event titled: A Hopeful Song Service on Sunday, February 8, 4-5:30pm ET.

"May the pits that lie within me
In the darkest depths of my dear heart
Serve me in my vulnerability"

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Every week they assemble,
Hanka, Gusta, Mayer, Hala,
and Sam, to test their luck again.

Seared blue-vein numbers,
in ragged formation
line up across their arms.

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Another throwback from Lilith's VHS archives...

From “Jewish Women Today. A Chat With Lilith Magazine Editor Susan Weidman Schneider,” 1988
Producer: Liz Leshin
Camera: Alexandra Nevins

#LilithDidItFirst

MAVCOR Journal is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue curated by Laura S. Levitt and Oren Baruch Stier titled "Tending to Holocaust Objects: Interrogating the Sacred."

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“It’s our losses that have pushed us to choose this path of peace. It’s to protect our children and their future. As mothers, we do not accept a future where our sons will either be the killed or the killers,” says Yael Admi.

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Please join us in congratulating Lilith's 2025 New 40 cohort on completing their year of learning, writing, and community-building with Lilith as emerging Jewish feminist writers over 45! What a caring, open, and courageous group 🎉

Hanukkah came early... Lilith's latest issue is live 🎁

Read it now and subscribe at lilith.org!

Were you born in the month of Kislev?

Read your Jewish horoscope from Mo Golden and Amanda Herring here: buff.ly/a7re9zr

Enter Our Annual Short Fiction Contest Calling all fiction writers!

Calling all fiction writers! Lilith is seeking quality short stories with heart, soul, and chutzpah, 3,000 words or under, for our Annual Fiction Contest.

- Open September 1–December 31.
- First prize: $300 and publication.

Learn more here: lilith.org/2025/09/fict...

"The relational intimacy we’re seeking doesn’t come from knowing the latest gossip about the rabbi; it comes from being in intentional spiritual community together."

Read Rabbi Talia Kaplan's "'Hot Rabbi' Culture Undermines Real Religious Connection" now at Lilith Online: buff.ly/HyXM1vC

Today is the first day of the Other Israel Film Festival at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. Amy Stone, one of Lilith's founding mothers, previewed many of the offerings.

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Ayelet Tsabari's latest novel "Songs for the Broken-Hearted" (2024) reveals the struggles and stories of Yemenite Jews that have remained too long unknown or undervalued on the margins of Jewish history and storytelling.

Read Na’amit Sturm Nagel's review for Lilith here: buff.ly/jjHIYg7

Happy Mizrahi Heritage Month from Lilith! Over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting some gems from the archives that uplift Mizrahi voices and stories.

The War on Hostage Posters: a Review of “Torn “ As we anxiously await news of a ceasefire and hostage return deal, Torn, a documentary directed by Nim Shapira, brings us back to the earliest days after October 7, depicting the hostage poster war…

"Shapira stages a moving cinematic dialogue between those who found the posters to be a deeply meaningful way to humanize the hostages and those who were enraged by what they considered a propaganda campaign."

Read Helene Meyers' recent review of "Torn" at Lilith Online.

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This spring, Lilith sat down with six Jewish women owners of six bookshops in six zip codes! 📚⭐️❤️

Each demonstrates that a brick-and-mortar store, especially one with a mission, offers value that the internet simply cannot replace.

Meet these important women of the book[shop]:

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Across a century, the "Call" chronicled the Jewish experience in America.

Join the Workers Circle on Monday, November 10 on Zoom for Living History: Voices from the Call Archive — a one-hour event featuring dramatic readings by acclaimed actors.

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Esteemed feminist sociologist, psychoanalyst, and professor emerita at UC Berkeley, Nancy Chodorow, passed away on October 14th. Her groundbreaking theories on feminism and gender bridged the fields of sociology and psychoanalysis. May her memory be for a blessing.

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The New Forty (Cycle 5) – Creating Opportunity for Emerging Writers over 45 in Lilith's 50th Anniversary Year The New Forty’ invites women and nonbinary feminists 45 years old to 100+ who are new to writing narrative nonfiction and new to writing for publication to participate in a one-year program providing ...

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There's less than one week left to apply to join the 5th cohort of the New 40, Lilith's program for emerging Jewish feminist writers over 40 (well, this time, 45)!

Learn more and apply at the link in the comments below.

"Sukkot is a holiday to celebrate the harvest, and though I was three stories above the earth, I celebrated my own harvest: a place to live, groceries in my fridge, a job, quiet neighbors, a laundromat down the street."

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Happy Banned Books Week from Lilith!

Did you know that fighting book bans is a great way to save and protect democracy? Learn more in Lilith's Winter 2024-2025 issue: buff.ly/9JAVnIf

Art by Yaara Eshet.

This Sunday, October 5th, BKForge is joining forces with Men4Choice for an afternoon of researching and exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers (aka anti-abortion fake clinics). Bring your laptop or tablet, and they'll walk you through all the steps!

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Where do we even start with forgiveness and repentance when every day brings new pain?

Perhaps with this prayer for forgiving ourselves from Rishe Groner (below). Then we can continue onward and outward.

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

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"This past May was the 50th yahrzeit of my late father, Samuel Shapiro. I did not have much of a relationship with him and as a feminist have harbored so much anger about who he was. But with Yom Kippur upon us, I find myself revisiting my journey to forgiveness."

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