Andrea Hodos
Our guest in quarantine is seeking asylum.
Tag: coronavirus
Poetry: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Life Before The Virus
Lesléa Newman
Poetry reflecting on physical touch before the Coronavirus.
A Nanny Reflects on the Pandemic and the U.S. Labor System
Arielle Silver-Willner
I work part-time as a nanny, and like many of the jobs that comprise the so-called “gig economy” and the domestic workforce, the Coronavirus pandemic has brought my work to a screeching halt.
Mourning During a Period of Self-Isolation
Rachel Fadem
My online college class was interrupted with three missed calls from my father, two from my mother, and a supplemental set of urgent texts. I knew without calling back that my grandmother had passed.
Turning Days of Distancing into Days of Reflection
Andrea Kott
Some folks are turning this time into an opportunity to begin exercising, bond with family and pets, clean closets, or garden. I am reliving the Days of Awe.
Food for Thought on Passover
Nechama Liss-Levinson
Let’s create new rituals and weave our food deprivations into our holistic understanding of what this Seder is and what it represents.
Desperately Seeking Yeast
Michelle Brafman
On day nine of Governor Hogan’s quarantine, I embarked upon a journey to find yeast. My daughter, uprooted from her college life, had decided that she wanted to make challah… Read more »
Between Purim and Passover, a Plague
Rayzel Raphael
What if wee find we are more resilient than we knew?
Warmth from an Afghan Blanket
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Coronavirus has suddenly changed our lives, so quickly and in ways so profound that we are just beginning to grasp.