The Button Box isn’t a proselytizing tool; it’s an adventure story with Jewish and Muslim kids doing a few ordinary Jewish and Muslim things, while they travel through time learning how to own and defend their cultural identities.
“When I eat a knish, when I drink a chocolate egg cream, when I butter a board of matzoh, I feel connected to my heritage and generations of my family.”
Neither my classmates’ psalms nor my prayers of supplication had succeeded in bringing peace.
It’s true that the city erupts in violence and that all the cups of coffee and kenafe in the world can’t fix everything or make it all better.
But it’s also true that Jerusalem is a place of possibilities and of miracles––a place with the potential to connect all who love her.
What is the source of your inner compass? This lunar cycle is here to remind you that you are your own greatest teacher.
“Silence has underscored my life, with my grandmother hiding her Russian Jewish past from her daughters and, in turn, my mother hiding it from me until I was eighteen years old.”
“I think most Jewish kids know the details of the Holocaust when they’re young.”
Roe v. Wade spelled the end of the need to put your life on hold if you became pregnant by accident.
Many of us have lost sleep over the direction our country has taken. I offer my story here with the understanding that we must prepare to take care of each other.
With reproductive rights under threat, a film reminds to celebrate and respect those who choose not to parent.
