Theme Section: Wandering Jews

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Out of the Rubble   

In this day and age, could war and destruction really upend our lives overnight?

True Account

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Where You Need to Be 

Hashem has a time for everything, and also a place for everything. Including us

Windows

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Rabbanit of the Kosel  

She's a fixture at the Kosel for years and years, as diminutive and as glowing as the first time I met her

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Part of Something Bigger: Be’er HaTorah, Gateshead 

The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The Long Summer        

For a girl who came from drizzly British summers, it seemed like a dream

Cut ‘n Paste

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Remember Us

Through it all my father remembered his promise, what he’d taken upon himself on that long ago night of mourning on a hilltop

Musings

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Meeting Him on the Mountain 

A disaster in Meron feels nothing less than a slap in the face

Calligraphy

Monday, April 11, 2022

Coming Clean

Sometimes I want to speak to her directly, ignore the worlds, class gulf, religious divides between us, and just talk, woman to woman

Windows

Monday, April 11, 2022

Place for Every Son

I know what she’s thinking: chareidi, kids, more kids, mess, problems

LifeTakes

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Stories Walking Past

I see her for years — maybe six or seven. She goes from around 12 to adulthood

True Account

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Screen Time

The key to my livelihood locked me out of real life