Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Sarit Yishai-Levi about “The Woman Beyond the Sea” and how her deep roots in eretz y’israel have informed her writing and her life.
A sharply composed collage-poem that provokes us to perceive connections, to recognize the reality of multiple convictions in our troubled time, and to ask ourselves: What now? What then?
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
Author Haviva Ner-David talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how she views this age-old conflict and her passionate commitment to ending it.
We can birth life instead of birthing violence.
We are destined to share this land. Neither of us can possibly win until we find a way for all of us to win.
I don’t know what kind of mother I would be if I lived behind a blockade.
But let’s be clear: our most fervent prayers are not enough. We must address the root causes of this conflict.
I could never find the sufganiot of my Israeli childhood, the ones that my father bought for a couple of shekels in the local bakery and brought home unexpectedly one damp night.
