I shared with them that I was in a bomb shelter for 3 days after the October 7 attack and how the word “genocide” deeply affects me as a Jewish student who is also the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. Read More
Jewcy explores the diverse backgrounds and experiences of being a Jew, queer; and for some, having a non-traditional gender identity. Read More
Lou was born a Jew during a period of extermination, hidden by a resourceful mother, taught Polish by a non-Jewish Polish family, taught German by nuns in a convent, recovered from TB, and taught Yiddish and right from wrong by his parents in a German DP camp. Read More
Yesterday my 87-year-old mother and I spent the afternoon taking down Hamas posters. Read More
…one of the few silver linings to this tragic war is the quiet support of Israeli Arab citizens, including Muslim Israeli’s towards their fellow Jewish citizens. Read More
I am for the first time in my sixty years on this earth, fifty five of them living in Australia feeling a sense of unease, an anxiety that being Jewish in this country is not what it used to be. Read More
The distrust of women continues to inculcate countless narratives, rendering moot experiences like Mia’s and Amit’s as ambiguous in the absence of the requested excruciating detail. Read More
Given the times, our community needs to reflect and be inspired. More than ever, women today need to acknowledge: We are standing on the shoulders of giants!We need to emulate their strength, courage, and compassion and match it with our own. Read More
She was so beautiful—like a poem silenced and given no name. She was just what the world fears most—a woman put together, need unmet, yet cleverly resolved and blameless. A Jewish woman who’d survived numerous rewrites and script changes. Read More
I was never comfortable with the identity of victim associated with being Jewish. Yes, we were victimized in the past. But today, the wholesale destruction of all of Gaza by Israel shifts the narrative. Now we are seen, globally, as victimizers. Read More
