We want to hear your stories of courage. Jewish Women of Words invites you to submit your own experiences for publication. As we approach the High Holidays send us reflections about your year, your life, your experience. Read More
Erwin remained in Paris before boarding the ship in Le Havre, France, on August 29, 1938. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. Read More
Nonno Betta, Umberto’s 93-year-old mother who lived above the shop and founded the restaurant, was herself a survivor. Read More
Step by step, I came to understand myself better, to connect more deeply with the spiritual rhythms of my life. Read More
Saturday night. My husband returned from shul and tried to turn the key in the lock —the same key he had used earlier in the day. But the key would not turn. Read More
What is an image? How does art therapy work? What is “the process?” Does it matter? Read More
If I could be at my grandparents’ house on a Friday before dusk I could watch my grandmother light the Sabbath candles. Read More
Throughout our history, we have experienced plenty of hardship, but we have flourished and thrived, and we will again. Read More
In a village near the Zuider Zee we visited a tulip farm where acres of cut tulips were piled in heaps — luminous purple, blue, orange, crimson, yellow, green–like splendid dead parrots. Read More
It is feeling isolated and afraid , yet more determined and united than ever. Read More
Even though his name is spoken often in my family of origin, none of us has ever met Ezekiel Coloneo. He died in 1753. Read More
