Imani Romney Rosa Chapman
A rewriting of Unetaneh Tokef in honor of the Black Lives that have been lost to racist violence.
Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
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Where Was the “Peace” 400 Years Ago?
Makeda Zabot-Hall
I thought my father hadn’t fought that day because he gave in. I thought he had let them win, when in reality, he had decided that his life, vows, and the promises that he had made to his wife and children trumped everything.
Black Lives Matter: Read, Learn, and Act
Lilith Staff
In the wake of this most recent horrific moment of racist violence and white supremacy, we would like to share the articles we’ve been reading and rereading–the organizations we’ve been following, and resources we’ve been turning to.
Three Characters, Three Storylines, and Three Time Periods
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The Book Of V (Henry Holt, $27.99) is nothing if not ambitious—three main characters, three storylines and three wildly divergent time periods—and yet novelist Anna Solomon manages to weave all three together with an effortlessness that belies the profound nature of her fictional probing.
A Debut Novel About Family
Elizabeth Edelglass
What constitutes a good mother? A good father? A good daughter? A normal life? These are questions posed by R.L. Maizes in her compelling debut novel Other People’s Pets.
“Hello, Can You Hear Me?”: Therapy on Zoom
Alexis Tomarken
Isolation, mass illness, death, unemployment, and closed schools have moved people out of the initial phase of panic and anxiety of what is to come to the demoralized place of what has arrived—nothingness.
Embracing “Quasi-Motherhood” With Humor and Empathy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Dani Alpert is one funny lady and like many comics, she uses her life as a prime source for her material. After falling for a divorced dad of two, she struggles to find a way to embrace the offspring she claims never to have wanted.
On Unorthodox: The Hasidim Are Not An Anomaly
Leah Lax
The Hasidim are not foreigners, not a quaint or irrelevant anomaly.
Poetry: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Life Before The Virus
Lesléa Newman
Poetry reflecting on physical touch before the Coronavirus.
When the Clapping Stops
Elana Rabinowitz
I may no longer know what day it is, but I can set my clock to the nightly applause that rumble in my neighborhood at 7:00 PM sharp.