Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
Tag: israel
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?
Let’s Build a Room for Hope
Rabbi Miriam Grossman
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Miriam Grossman: Today I need to keep my humanity. And today I need to keep going even without hope. Because hope will come one day.
Last Saturday Morning.
Elana Sztokman
Elana Sztokman: When horror and sadness at the attacks is accompanied by anger at the government.
Israel at War: “In the Beginning There Was the Word.”
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
A sermon excerpt from Rabbi Angela Buchdal: Words matter, because the truth matters. Let’s take care to use the right ones.
The Horror of These Times: A Reading List
Lilith magazine
With pain in our hearts for losses past and, we fear, losses yet to come, Lilith will in coming weeks and months continue to publish the stories of Jewish feminists about terror, loss, displacement, and connection.
Sarit Yishai-Levi Talks “The Woman Beyond the Sea”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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.
Poetry: Eighteen Ways of Looking at Property
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
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?