“Her memories will become monuments”: On Poland, Irena Klepfisz, and the Search for Home
“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
“It was on the plane to Warsaw that Irena Klepfisz’s writing began to feel less like poetry and more like prophecy.”
From fashion to music to culture, an exploration of popular past and contemporary Jewish masculinities.
“More than one group has a pencil for the Book of Life.”
“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.”
“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”
Writers say representation won’t be enough to fix outlets’ coverage of non-Ashkenazi Jewish life.
“What could any of us have done to deserve conquest, genocide or war? How could you possibly try to draw lines on land? Why can’t we be everything that we are?” Mirushe Zylali reflects on a year with New Voices and the Jewish Women’s Archive.
Finding healing with ADHD, stimming, and Sephardic kabbalistic musician Victoria Hanna.
As we all know, all the best decisions are decided around a cramped gossipy Friday night table.
In a world ruled by Godwin’s Law, how can we reclaim the memory of the Holocaust to fight against today’s real atrocities?
As the assimilation dilemma grows, an obsession with “continuity discourse” may be creating more barriers for Jews often shamed for multi-traditional upbringings.
Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.
For young working-class Jews stuck in abusive living situations, ritual observance can become difficult or impossible – a struggle often erased in American Jewish communities, where classism and assumptions of wealth pervade.
Looking back on a year of teaching English in Tel Aviv and Nazareth during a resurgence of violence and a global pandemic.