Tag: independent journalism

Sephardic wisdom and tradition is largely left out in many Jewish institutions. Tamar Zaken is changing that.

Three poems from Lesléa Newman about the impact of her mother’s death on her father and herself.

Just as the form held the poems together, writing the poems held me together.

The iconography in Maxine Lee Ewaschuk’s embroidery reflects the lenses through which she sees the world and the world sees her.

Carmel Tanaka on the power and celebration of the “in between.”

No one cared when my grandmother got angry: a comic.

Flory Jagoda was an instigator and inspiration who was essential to the current resurgence of Ladino language and Sephardic culture.

I never wanted to be a queen. I only wanted to be Vashti.

The fact that someone who’s currently sitting in Congress seriously peddled this antisemitic conspiracy isn’t a joking matter to me.

Our history is more beautiful, complex, tragic, and miraculous than can be covered in a lesson, a bulletin board, or in a month.