Shabbat, Chronic Illness, & Radical Rest
“I have seen Jewish wisdom anchor chronically ill and disabled people amidst a society that is built, in many ways, to exclude us.”
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Our Adar Hearts
“As we read a text about Adar, and one about feeling the pain of those suffering, The Fellows wrote our own Torah as a response.”
On Covering One’s Eyes
Through the story of Malachim, our editor reflects on finding belonging amidst war, love, and loss.
Saying Hamotzi Over Challah and Gumbo
The mission to turn my family’s Cajun recipes Kosher went much deeper than just the food.
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Is it possible to disentangle fasting from the connotations of weight loss and dieting, and maintain its religious value?
“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”
“I watched as the sheep lined up to buy their Famous Amos cookies and Herr’s sour cream and onion chips. While they forked up dollar after crumpled dollar, my grandfather’s wet lips whispered in my ear: sell.”
“As the war continues, students search for an outlet for their grief, and ways to do something that feels meaningful. But constraints like social anxiety, institutional pressure, and blacklisting have made activism difficult.”
“What if I’d pursued another degree, deserted a friendship, or pursued a great love? Dancing around my skull, my dreams pull these threads out from under my brain and smack onto the page.”
When she calls us to tell us she’s in the hospital / She being my sister / Or She being my homeland / We drive to the hospital / It’s Shabbat / We drive to the hospital
New Voices Fellow, Ashton Macklin, shares a collage about our relationships to God in the abstract form.
“Even if we somehow managed to get every member back into that living room in Edinburgh, singing the same songs, it will never feel the same. We will no longer have those same strings of connection, varying in strength but never tenderness, weaving between us.”