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. Discover her thoughts on a few standouts now at Lilith Online: buff.ly/cII0Mlo

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.

"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. lilith.org/2025/10/the-...

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]: buff.ly/3tAWcKe

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. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/o0Nbzqs

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. buff.ly/vE4akb0

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." buff.ly/CxuPB2G

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! Learn more and register here: buff.ly/jPxVcfq

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. buff.ly/YDDFuzK

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

"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." buff.ly/TqcL7J3

Ultra-Orthodox American-Israeli Beatie Deutsch is an elite marathon runner, and she’s upending expectations. Learn about her journey at Lilith Online: buff.ly/PweRJ5J

If you want to get out your frustration and have some breadcrumbs to spare, read “Lake Michigan Tashlikh” by Barbara Stock. buff.ly/xWRyAnx

May 5786 bring you the strength you need to keep seeking sweetness. Shanah tovah. Photo by Arielle Silver-Willner.

If you want to smile while hiding in the bathroom of shut, read "One Hundred Years of Gratitude" by Lesléa Newman. buff.ly/07BAzxz

If you’ve been seeing your therapist daily in preparation to see family this High Holiday season, you're not alone... buff.ly/3ADieX6

THIS SUNDAY! Stop by the Lilith table at the Brooklyn Book Festival (booth #226) to schmooze with Lilith staff and contributors, PLUS, take advantage of one-day-only giveaways!

Alicia Ostriker calls the poem "Prophet Babe Pop" by Hannah Yerington "a prayer to the Shekhinah in disguise" and we couldn't agree more 💄🌠🕯️ Discover more gems like this one in Lilith's latest issue: buff.ly/jtrX8AQ

NEXT WEEK: Join Barnes & Noble Upper West Side in welcoming Kitty Zeldis discussing and signing "One of Them," with Sarah Seltzer on Tuesday, September 16th. Learn more here: buff.ly/03rh3FG

There are many treasures in the Lilith office! One of our favorites is our Editor in Chief's rolodex of contacts from the past nearly 50 years of Jewish feminist publishing--who else do you think we will find in Susan Weidman Schneider's rolodex? Stay tuned 👀

Mazel tov to Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, the 4th generation co-owners of Russ & Daughters, on the release of their new cookbook! Want to learn more about the feminist legacy behind this iconic shop? Check out this feature from Lilith's Winter 2019-2020 issue: buff.ly/YzLAYjm

THIS WEEK: The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, led by Binyumen Schaechter, will perform FROYEN! Women in Yiddish Song. Learn more and buy your tickets for the performance on Sunday, September 14th: buff.ly/8QHnWwU

Jewish Women's Archive Online History Course Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South begins tonight! Register here: buff.ly/Hswg33a

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...

You voted, we listened! Grab some brand new Lilith stickers at upcoming in-person events, starting with the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st in Downtown Brooklyn.

Lilith's new issue is here! Between its covers, you'll find: Women of the bookstore. Reading “Little Women” in Jerusalem. Cleaning out my mother’s house. Discover it now: buff.ly/OF3eAAD Cover art by Jenny Kroik.

⭐ COVER REVEAL! ⭐ Subscribers, Lilith’s Summer 2025 issue is on its way to you now… Not yet a subscriber? Subscribe here for the gift of Jewish feminism in your mailbox: buff.ly/hCkHg8K Art by Jenny Kroik.

2- The paperback is ON SALE today! It's SO PRETTY bookshop.org/a/100000/978...

Huge congrats to our instructor @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social, whose story "Fat Healthy Baby" won first place in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social's story contest. Read Anca's story here: lilith.org/articles/fic...

My review of @bethkander.bsky.social’s smart, fun novel I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY is now online over @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/__t...

Order your copy of @lilithmagazine.bsky.social’s spring 2024 issue this #DisabilityPrideMonth! This issue features writing on Judaism and disability by Julia Watts Belser, Ashley P. Taylor, Mariah Guevin, and more: lilith.org/issue_manage...

"Av is about destruction and love. Know that there may be tears this month, and that’s okay. Sit with the sadness, don’t push it away. This too we can learn from." Read the rest of your Jewish horoscope for Av by Gold Herring (@gold.herring) here: buff.ly/ZLPnOhz.

“On Tuesday, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, traveled to Indianapolis to a truck dealership to make what he called one of the most significant acts of deregulation in American history.” Learn more in this podcast episode from The Daily with Lisa Friedman: buff.ly/Dw6tg3I

The paperback version of Lilith staffer Sarah Seltzer's "The Singer Sisters" comes out next week! Guess what? The first 5 people to DM a photo of their order receipt to @lilithmagazine on Instagram will also receive...

In Lilith's Spring 2016, Helène Aylon published an artist’s manifesto for protecting her grandsons from gun violence. Almost a decade later, her words haunt. Read it here: lilith.org/articles/tea...

We're still glowing from last week's salon and we want to share the light! Discover recipes from Beejhy Barhany, the Ethiopian Israeli founder of Harlem’s Tsion Café, in Lilith's latest issue: lilith.org/articles/our...

In case you were wondering about Jewish derby-name representation in this year’s Gotham Roller Derby roster: Andy Slamberg, Scare Horowitz, Matzah Brawl, Hebrew-Ham Lincoln, Burnin’ Bush, Fatal Dreidel, and Slayna Punim

"For us striving wives and mothers of the world, worn out from the exertions of trying to conform to a dream, female friendship might be the only place where we can simply be." Read more of Nicole Graev Lipson's musings in Lilith's latest issue: lilith.org/articles/the...

In Lilith's current issue, Gen Slosberg shares 6 important ways to show up for immigrants--now and always. Illustrations by Rebecca Katz. lilith.org/articles/how...

"Through BDSM I leave my disability for a moment, as it were, and my body actually receives a different kind of care—not medical or typical care, but care born from pleasure, giving, and enjoyment." Art: Film still from “32 Inches of Queen” (2019), co-created with Ariel Bronze

In honor of Disability Pride Month, we are revising Lilith's robust archive of writing by and about Jewish feminists with disabilities. Read this 2024 article by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman now: buff.ly/nDbA9WJ

In this article from Lilith's Summer 2024 issue, discover how disability and divine strength created a meaningful, blossoming connection between two Jewish women at summer camp. Read it now: lilith.org/articles/sop...

Exciting news: Lilith has just received 7 Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association, for work from twelve different Lilith contributors during 2024! We'll be celebrating each winner next week...stay tuned 🎉

Submissions are open 'til by 5PM ET on July 7th! Share your story via the Google Form in the comments below.

"If we support a woman’s right to choose, her right to bodily autonomy, then this clearly includes her right to choose to change her body as she pleases."

In three prizewinning short stories, the youngest humans — and their caregivers — take center stage. Read them now in Lilith's new issue: lilith.org/current-issue/