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Nu, you! Yes you, rhetorical-you, why don’t you like being seen as a Jewish writer? Is it because you imagine the Jewish writer as a man with a long beard, peyes, and a fur hat? Is it because you imagine the Jewish writer as a prickly Sabra holding a gun? Is it because you imagine […]
In the 18th month of the Israeli military’s genocide of Gaza, a few miles north of the seat of American fascism, 2,000 Jews and friends from around the country gathered in Baltimore for Jewish Voice for Peace’s National Member Meeting. Jewish Voice for Peace was formed in 1996 in a dorm room in Berkeley, […]
Daisy Friedman is an up-and-coming writer/director whose most recent film, Unholy, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film follows a young woman, Noa, as she navigates her family’s Passover seder with a gastrointestinal disorder that requires a feeding tube. In her own words, “Unholy is a film about what it means to […]
A Note from the Poet: Activism for Palestine profoundly shaped my last year in college, pushing me to rethink everything I thought I knew about social movements, solidarity, and statehood. These three poems are my attempt, one year later, to capture the entanglements and possibilities of participating in activism for Palestine as Jewish student. I […]
We can learn a great deal about Aaron Zeitlin’s Monolog in Pleynem Yidish מאָנאָלאָג אין פּלעינעם יידיש just from the title. Immediately, the title informs readers that this monologue is in Yiddish, but it also uses the preposition “in” which echoes the English preposition, rather than the contextually expected Yiddish preposition “af” or “oyf.” Zeitlin […]
Growing up, my school brought in Holocaust survivors to speak with students each year, including pairing with the organization “Names, Not Numbers.” In their yearly Yom HaShoah talks, survivors never failed to mention the dehumanizing numbers branded on their arms. That image of turning people into numbers and that defiant slogan, “names, not numbers,” resounded […]
BREAKING NEWS: The smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel is white and the bells of St Peter’s Basilica are ringing. After 24 hours of voting, the papal conclave has chosen a new pope. Like his predecessor, Pope Francis, this appointment will mark many firsts for the Vatican. He’s the first from North America, the first […]
In his autobiography, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, Walter Benjamin describes an Imperial Panorama, or Kaiserpanorama, a revolving cylinder with a stereoscopic projection of images popular across Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. With this device, “it did not matter where you began the cycle. Because the viewing screen, with places to sit before […]
Photo by Judy Goldstein On March 8th 2025, Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the U.S., was detained by ICE. He had committed no crime, only exercising his free speech as one of the primary organizers of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. The day before his detention, President Trump cut $400 million in funding to […]
Note: These poems are in the same order in all languages, Ladino transliteration, Ladino, and English. It was in the author’s best intention to capture the musicality, tone, and rhyme of each poem in the Ladino-English translation. The Sea (לה מאר) la mar ke me yama, viene de aze […]