Mikhal Weiner
“All that I have learned from my 15 years of living with very personal, profound loss as a person who was 30 years old when faced with that loss—and trying to figure out how to live a life.”
A Guide to Navigating Grief…
Tag: grief
What Magic Is Ours?
Emily Barth
You can’t make a voodoo doll, I repeat. It isn’t our magic to use. I think of the magic that should be ours to use, instead. The faith we should have in our mezuzot and our medicine. A magic based on belief in the good.
I Know Nothing About Tisha B’av
Rebecca S’manga Frank
Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. I often feel like I’m in a perpetual state of mourning.
Today I Will Eat Ashes
Megan J. Smith
Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.
What a Literary Left-Wing Legend Left Behind
Ellen Gruber Garvey
In Frances Goldin’s apartment, we found a powerful sign: “I Adore My Lesbian Daughters.”
Jill Smolowe on Four Funerals and a Wedding
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jill Smolowe, a journalist and memoirist, had her own annus horribilis, only hers lasted a year and a half.