Compromising all my convictions, save one
Maybe I just never noticed them before. I’ve been spending more time writing on my covered front porch, having recently acquired some comfy outdoor seating. It seems there are at least four birds’...
View ArticleOn hurricanes, memories, and a secret path to Jerusalem
I’m watching hurricane warnings on the news, and it all seems so far away as the crisp hint of fall air hangs over New England evenings. It has been uncharacteristically cool, this last month of...
View ArticleWhat Israel just doesn’t get about American Jews
Among large sections of American Jewry, there is a real question today about how much Israel is home to them” — Alan Hoffman, director-general of the Jewish Agency, speaking in Ha’aretz, 22 January...
View ArticleCompromising all my convictions, save one
Maybe I just never noticed them before. I’ve been spending more time writing on my covered front porch, having recently acquired some comfy outdoor seating. It seems there are at least four birds’...
View ArticleFrom some angles, I just might be a terrorist
A Rosh Hashanah tale. Here’s the strange story of what happened in the airport on my way to drop my eldest off for her first year of college. We were through security early, and more than a little...
View ArticleOn name-calling, and Seinfeld
Let’s all just agree to blame Jerry Seinfeld. His infamous ‘Soup Nazi’ episode killed two birds with one stone. It was a green light to Jews to laugh publicly, out loud, about something that had until...
View ArticleSomeone else’s memories
The mass of jeering, mocking, vaguely threatening young men immediately brought Cossacks to mind. Or maybe Nazis
View ArticleAnniversaries we’d just as soon forget
In the year since a stranger with a knife attacked me and my family at home, I've learned empathy for those who have suffered even worse
View ArticleFamily group text, COVID style – a found poem in six stanzas
The ephemera of lockdown include shared messages about meals, laundry and, above all, remembering to count the days of the omer
View ArticleA plea from across the chasm
Some of us, both here and there, live in the space between Israel and America. Often that space feels like a millimeter, almost a whisper. We watch the same shows on Netflix, munching absently on...
View ArticleLocking our history in a box
If you had the Holocaust education I did, in the 1980s, you certainly would have been assigned more than one essay with the list. The list of things you would put in your suitcase if you were given...
View ArticleOn Purim, feelings about Ukraine turned upside-down
This Purim, I’m making my signature triangular whoopie pies in blue and yellow. I am, in a way, Ukrainian. Ask a non-Russian speaking American Jew where their family comes from, and they’ll almost...
View ArticleWas the brutal attack on me in my home just bad luck?
Or was he also a victim - of bad actors who manipulate vulnerable people with their conspiracies and hate?
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