Lesléa Newman
My job was to keep my father safe in the world without compromising his dignity. I can only imagine how difficult it was for him—the parent—to take orders from me—the child.
A Pain in the Ass
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A “Bad Girl” on the Campaign for a Safe Abortion
Joyce Antler
Reflecting on the fight for abortion rights in New York.
The Hidden Heroines of World War II
Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan
Batalion’s obvious awe of and delight in her subjects’ tenacity and sheer nerve is infectious.
Wisdom of Sephardic Sages
Hadar Cohen
Sephardic wisdom and tradition is largely left out in many Jewish institutions. Tamar Zaken is changing that.
An Expected Unexpected Death
Lesléa Newman
Three poems from Lesléa Newman about the impact of her mother’s death on her father and herself.
Judy Batalion, a First Class Disrupter
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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.
Eight Days Celebrating Jewish Survival
Susan Barocas
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.
Present Perfect: a Pandemic Bar Mitzvah
Rachel Mesch
For a few hours, we created a bubble of joy under that canopy, tuning out the pandemic fears.