Joyce Antler
Reflecting on the fight for abortion rights in New York.
Reflecting on the fight for abortion rights in New York.
Batalion’s obvious awe of and delight in her subjects’ tenacity and sheer nerve is infectious.
Sephardic wisdom and tradition is largely left out in many Jewish institutions. Tamar Zaken is changing that.
Three poems from Lesléa Newman about the impact of her mother’s death on her father and herself.
Revolvers hidden in loaves of bread and teddy bears… Explosives hidden in their underwear… Jewish teenagers at Auschwitz who stole gunpowder and helped blow up a crematorium?! None of these stories had made it into the tales of the Holocaust that I’d heard.
As the Jews of Spain left Iberia, the largest number found safe haven in the Ottoman Empire. There the foods of the Sephardim, with recipes remembered and carried by the women, found a wonderful match with Ottoman cuisine.
For a few hours, we created a bubble of joy under that canopy, tuning out the pandemic fears.
Just as the form held the poems together, writing the poems held me together.
The iconography in Maxine Lee Ewaschuk’s embroidery reflects the lenses through which she sees the world and the world sees her.