Lesléa Newman
Three poems from Lesléa Newman about the impact of her mother’s death on her father and herself.
An Expected Unexpected Death
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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.
When Poetry Held Me Together
Lesléa Newman
Just as the form held the poems together, writing the poems held me together.
Adar, Mussar, and Vaccines
Linda Elovitz Marshall
Each day, the sun lasts longer. The maple tree yields a more sap. More people receive vaccinations.
Siona Benjamin Paints Lilith of the Present
Samantha Baskind
For Benjamin, and most feminists who have adopted (or adapted) Lilith in art or literature, the mythological first wife of Adam stands as an icon of independence and courage
Keeper of the Flame
Susan Barocas
Flory Jagoda was an instigator and inspiration who was essential to the current resurgence of Ladino language and Sephardic culture.
Ten Things to Remember for Black History Month… and Beyond
Rachel Faulkner
Our history is more beautiful, complex, tragic, and miraculous than can be covered in a lesson, a bulletin board, or in a month.
A Southern Jewish Farmer?!
Meredith Cohen
My Jewish farming journey pointed me back home to the South, and made me long to put down roots in the place that, as a Jewish teenager, I could not wait to leave.