Finding hope, even now • Turning care and cleaning into art • Seeking meaning at the end of life • A family that rejected shame
Table of contents Get the issueIn memory of Phyllis Rolfe Silverman (1927–2016)
Influenced by Jewish lore, she creates vivid female characters in community. You can't put these books down.
She gestures plainly to the table. Indicating where, rather than platters of kugel, there might soon be cadavers.
Will the shy petals of red anemones returnthis springand joy-splotch the blankets of green?Will we roll in the meadows like childrenagainand eat cheese sandwiches with black olives? When the rain... Read more »
My grandparents and their son, Joe, arrived in the U.S. from Germany in 1939. Grete, the cousin who had sponsored them, took one look at the child and told them... Read more »
Even after almost 80 years, my aunt still misses snow and the forests.
The author of The Hebrew Teacher and Happy New Years on Israeli-American identity, language, duality, and influence.
From this magazine’s very first issue 50 years ago, when “The Lilith Question” by Aviva Cantor noted that “The Lilith story may be a clue to our own history, ”... Read more »
My mom lived in six assisted living environments. Only some respected her religion.
OVER THE YEARS BETWEEN 1988 AND 2012, I was a regular traveler to Israel, spending months at a time in Jerusalem, where I hoped someday to live. In 2012, my... Read more »
Ukeles’s artist bio is now about ten pages long. “Manifesto” and “Touch Sanitation Performance” are cited often, but I wondered if she’d like to choose a less frequently noted piece... Read more »