Susan Weidman Schneider

In 2015, she received the Alumni Achievement Award from Brandeis University, the National Council of Jewish Women awarded her the “Woman Who Dared” award and she received the Polakoff Lifetime Achievement Award in journalism for her work on Lilith.

In 1976, after spending some time in Israel with her family, Susan Weidman Schneider and a small group of women decided to found an "independent Jewish women's magazine,". They named the quarterly magazine after the bible figure Lilith, Eve's predecessor in the Garden of Eden, who was expelled for wanting equality. The goal of the magazine was to show how the sexism of Jewish religion, history, and contemporary life posed a challenge to Jewish women and at the same time explore ways in which the religion could change on behalf of Jewish women. In the premiere issue's editorial, Weidman Schneider elaborates:

Susan Weidman Schneider has been working as editor-in-chief in the magazine's Manhattan offices since the publication of the first issue in 1976.

In 1969, Weidman Schneider married Bruce Schneider, a doctor, and they moved several times within the United States and to Israel. The couple had three children: Benjamon (*1969), Rachel (*1973) and Yael (*1982).

During her childhood, Susan Weidman Schneider was an active member of her synagogue, in Jewish youth groups, and in an interfaith organization. In 1961, she started studying at Brandeis University. She described this time as her "political awakening".

Susan Weidman Schneider (born March 17, 1944) is a Canadian author, activist and editor of the feminist magazine Lilith. She has written several books and articles on a variety of topics including intermarriage, fertility, domestic abuse, conversion, Orthodosy and feminism and LGBTQ issues.