Lauren Grodstein
…and their counterparts in Israel and Gaza today.
The Secret Archivists of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Sitting Down With the Cast of “Harmony”
Liba Vaynberg
A new Broadway musical tells the story of a half-Jewish, half-gentile singing comedy group in pre-WWII Germany
Behold Feminine Power!
Jean Bloch Rosensaft
“Activate: A New York Woman’s Perspective,” now at he Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, explores multifaceted expressions of feminine power amidst complex and fraught socio-political dynamics tied to bodies and heritage, intimacy and otherness, sex and religion.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Searing Family Inquiry
Lynn Melnick
In her newest work, the brilliant memoir “Touching the Art,” Sycamore examines her relationship with her grandmother Gladys.
Jessica Keener’s Night Swim, A Decade Later
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later.
On Cormac McCarthy’s Jewish Heroine
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Why would Cormac McCarthy assign Jewishness to his characters in a book so overwhelmingly Catholic?
Do I Have a Right to Sing for Peace?
Rebecca Katz
A mother wrestles with her lullaby during wartime.
The Skin I’m In: Ozempic, Fatphobia, and Hunger
D B Ashkenazi
I’m waiting for the day that my body isn’t a point of discussion at all
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
What Tahara Can Teach Us
Alana Krivo-Kaufman
During a Tahara, the Jewish ritual for sanctifying a body after death, we wash the body in a continuous stream of water, we engage in spacious silence, and we recite words which affirm the inherent goodness of every soul, every life an entire world.