Jennifer Baum
Here I was in Marrakesh, brought right back to the core of my being, to my father, through a mourner’s prayer more than 2000 years old.
A Mourner’s Prayer in Morocco
Tag: israel
Intrepid Pioneers & Creating a Storm: A Conversation with Isabelle Seddon
Barbara Gingold
Friends Barbara Gingold and Isabelle Seddon discuss the intersections of feminism, family, Israel, and Seddon’s recent publications Intrepid Pioneers: Jewish Women in the Public Arena and its sequel, Creating a Storm: Jewish Women in the World of Art and Culture, scheduled for publication in January 2025.
Two Jews, Three Opinions in the Age of Online Rage
Leah Grisham
Historically, Jews have dealt with so much violence, discrimination, and hate enacted by outside forces: we cannot afford to inflict pain against each other. And perhaps–that’s why we inflict pain against each other?
At the UN, Jewish Women Decry “Unbearable Silence” Around Oct. 7 Rapes
Joan Roth
Photographer Joan Roth was on hand to document the the hundreds who gathered outside the UN in support of Israeli victim/survivors of Oct. 7’s sexual violence.
The Silence Surrounding the Sexual Violence of October 7th
Diana Bletter
Even after more documentation has emerged, UN Women, has still refused to condemn Hamas’ horrific sexual crimes or recognize that they even happened.
The Secret Archivists of the Warsaw Ghetto
Lauren Grodstein
…and their counterparts in Israel and Gaza today.
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
Bring Them Home
Susan Weidman Schneider
We are three weeks into the most threatening time I have lived through as a Jew.
Letter from Israel: The Definition of Insanity
Elana Sztokman
Do we use our pain to unleash violence and hatred onto others? Or do we use our pain as an instrument of compassion, to learn to recognize the pain in others?
