My friend Roni saw me on my way to the pool last week and was surprised to see where I was going. “You? Swimming during the nine hours? I’m shocked! Even I don’t swim during the nine hours.” She was referring to the well-known custom of refraining during the week before Tisha b’Av from pleasurable [...]
Let’s face it. It’s hard for women to rise to the top in the Jewish world. Whatever the reasons, only a handful of women sit at the highest echelons of major Jewish organizations. And so we mourn the loss of June Walker, former head of Hadassah who spent this last year as Chair of the [...]
Recent news that the Israeli netball team found glory in Ireland brought a warm glow to my face that I almost confused with the beginnings of a hot flush.
A couple of months ago, I heard about a friendly Jewish netball game in London (a common game in Great Britain and Commonwealth countries). As I started [...]
I had a whole post planned about rising gas prices, but Netflix finally came through with a movie Iâve been waiting literally months to see. That movie, that Iâve just finished watching, is Hotel Rwanda, and I donât think Iâve felt this punched in the gut sinceâ¦well, since the first time I saw Schindlerâs List.
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News that two young Jewish women, Leah Green and Samantha Freedman are in the running for the Miss England title was apparently meant to make me feel proud. After all, Miss Green told the Jewish Chronicle, “I thought that maybe I could try to get the message out that it’s not a bad thing to [...]
The Zionist Women’s Organization, Hadassah, had its annual convention last week in Los Angeles. Plenty of noteworthy goings on went on there. But that will have to wait for another post.
Right now I’m more interested in what happened at last year’s convention in New York. Having attended the closing brunch of the convention, I posted [...]
As I sit in sweltering Brooklyn, trying very hard not think about global warming, I rather wish I were in another sweltering room, in Austin, Texas, watching the Netroots Nation conference, an annual conference for progressive bloggers. I have a few friends there, and I can’t wait to hear how it went.
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Given my last Lilith post, you might think the above image is of Barbie dolls. But, in fact, those are models — modeling fashions by up-and-coming and eccentric designer Levi Okunov at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s 3rd annual Emerging Jewish Artists showcase, that featured several stand-out female artists.
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So, America turned 232 this past weekend. Unfortunately, it seems like lots of people aren’t feeling too good about the state of the nation. Polls indicate people are feeling bad about the direction America seems headed in. I think when kids studying U.S. political history look at our era, they’re going to be reading something [...]
Why does it feel impossible to imagine your mother as anything but that, when up until you she was everything but that?
I remember when I was eight months old. The sun peeking in, cool dew blanketing the lawn, her voice a tether rope pulling me from sleep. Her voice rod-stout and firmly soiled. My world [...]