Susan Weidman Schneider

Susan Weidman Schneider, one of Lilith magazine‘s founding mothers, was the Editor-in-Chief since the magazine launched in 1976 and is currently Editor-In-Chief Emerita. Her writing about diverse women’s lives and work, about the importance of reproductive justice, the persistence of gender stereotyping and more have been credited with moving the needle on feminist change in the Jewish world and beyond. She’s the author of three books, including the groundbreaking Jewish and Female (1984) and is editor of a widely praised new anthology of short stories, Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women.