Aunt Vera did not recognise any religious faith. She was a freethinker…She did everything gracefully, with a certain amount of cunning and dexterity… Read More
Ms. Goldberg emphatically stated that Jews are not a race. Her comment goes straight to the heart of the problem. If Jews do so well, how can they be subject to racism? Read More
Fast forward to my Bat Mitzvah at our Conservative shul and I’m wondering why I am relegated to a Friday night service and no Torah reading. Read More
Could we create a performance bringing writers and musicians together in a meaningful collaboration to commemorate the Shoah? We were both committed to the idea of focusing on ‘women and war’. Read More
Nathan never again saw his family in the Ukraine, but my cousin remembers that his sister sent letters…The letters ceased abruptly in 1941. Read More
The two women sat at the table, exposed to the wind of the open front door, and read, together, about the path, out of slavery, to the promised land. Read More
I feel that the worst parts of this pandemic have passed over us. It is as if our doorposts were marked with a blessing that prevented illness and sadness from touching so many that we love. Read More
…anyone who compares what is happening in Ukraine to the Holocaust is insulting the memory of the millions of men, women, children… Read More
It was time to leave and the genuine appreciation for what they had experienced was written over both their faces. Read More
I was highly anxious about ‘coming out as a writer.’ I’d been missing in action during all of those seminal high school English classes Read More
How does a young Jewish girl visit Israel on an organised youth trip to learn about her culture, religion, and roots, only to never return home? Read More
