Calligraphy

Sunday, April 05, 2020

Stone’s Throw

Around her the kids are screaming, but Dena can hear something else. The hiss of onions maybe, an angry hiss, like they’re charring

In the Shadow of Corona

Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Not Alone

“The birth was smooth, the babies are healthy. My mother wasn’t here, but she got me a neis”

Windows

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Red Coat

She holds the coat close. It smells of mothballs and blind faith

LifeTakes

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Faces We Wear

I look at the pictures. At the widow’s smile. Did I smile like that today, yesterday?

Musings

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

The Boy on the Train

"I’m a mom and a therapist because when this happens, you become a therapist”

LifeTakes

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

2020

We rolled it off our tongues: “Twenty-twenty.” Distant and foreign sounding and a million miles away

Personal Accounts

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Names Etched in Wood

Fiction

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

The Exchange

Six boys. Six yeshivos. Six chasunahs — well, seven, if you counted Yoni’s first marriage. Now they were starting to marry off the grandchildren

Calligraphy

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Sound Check

These women don’t even know her, but they want to know about her deepest struggles

Musings

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Aravah Jew

“Look at him, at him, behind the stained shirt and missing teeth, and you can’t help loving him, he’s another Jew"

Musings

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Finding My Father

I stand there with my years’ worth of baggage. Praying for another year