This is a tale of absurdity and darkness. I never would have thought I would be caught in the midst of a lawsuit, following…

For twenty of the twenty-two years that I was married, I shaved my head. I hadn’t intended to shave off my hair. Unlike my…

I recently, before the George Floyd murder, asked my 20 year-old grandson what he thought the world looked like today and how he was…

For a long time  now I have rejected most ritualistic observances of Judaism. It started with a growing feminist consciousness in my early twenties,…

Her thoughts prey on Judaism and love; She sees two futures pulling her apart. Her ears listen to God’s voice from above, But not…

If there’s one thing we have learned from this tumultuous time, it is that nothing is promised. Your child may have been eagerly looking…

1. My daughter’s nose is crooked, the stark roundness of it tilting to the right. It refuses to be lean, and small, and button,…

My father’s yorzeit was three days before Pesach, two weeks into the lockdown here in Victoria. With religious services shut down, I couldn’t be…

Each morning in the spring of 1945, from the day the war ended and the trains began bringing them home, her father awakened in…