What kind of Jewish education, and for whom, is more vital? More nuanced? More indicative of a thriving Jewish future?
Here we grapple with the justice of how to treat an ‘enemy’. When just next door she sleeps so peaceful. With prayers and knives... in kitchen sinks.
Elizabeth describes the beauty of watching Jewish young adults on Birthright connect with their Judaism in a visceral, visionary moment.
Galut (exile) is when we sooner believe them over ourselves in reading the truths of our own skin, in deciphering the lifelines of our own palms.
Simply being unapologetically Jewish is a political act.
I was made for breaking. I am built from the raw material of utter destruction, every fissure
bursting with crumpled petition.
Today I’m losing my mind and it's not the first time/Only this time I think it might be normal...
I had no business saying yes to this opportunity, but saying yes taught me something valuable that still gives me strength today.
I'm so alone in Brooklyn. Will I ever felt like I did in Israel? Will I ever find a home?
