Eishes Chayil, a woman of strength, of value. The song on repeat repeat repeat as this skirt is being cut, pocked, crotch created. These lines of poetry viscerally cut me and I feel alive. The memory of this same tune in many homes and countries but always my voice in...
A concengtragtion camp that sheltered Jews from all over Europe. I asked an Italian journalist from Calabria to write up this article for Yom Hashoa. Here is the story she sent in. Ferramonti Camp: a history of peaceful coexistence in Calabria, during the Second...
My grandmother was a child of war and terror. As a young child in 1940’s Jerusalem, first under Ottoman Rule, then under the British Mandate she was kept indoors and hidden from sight. She was my great-grandmother’s miracle baby and my great-grandparents did...
צושטרויבלט בין איך אינגאנצןאיך וואק אהיןאיך וואק אהערארום און ארוםאון דערנאך נאכאמאלנישט איך וואק אויף די גראדע ווענטנאר די גראדע ווענט וואקן אויף מיראיך בין זייער פארנומען מיט טון גארנישטאון איך האלט מיך אין איין אפריעןווייל עס נעמט אסאל כח צו גארנישט טוןאפילו די...
What is authenticity? This is not the question I thought I’d be wrestling with right now as I sit at my new home-away-from-home inside my home with thoughts of spread and infection rate and essential workers and PPE all swirling around in my brain like viral...
